Pets
Oh, that’s a delicious looking jar of vanilla-almond tea you’ve got there. What’s that you say? Not just tea? Kombucha? Next weekend is going to be badass. One good thing about only coming up on weekends in that there’s no watched-kettle syndrome with the ferments. I’m also feeding the sourdough starters for the first time […]
Greenhouse stopgap
We’re still working out our budget and schedule for this year (obviously – we just got here a couple of weeks ago), and it’s uncertain that we’ll have a greenhouse in time for spring. Here are some other things we may try (assuming we’re ready for any sort of early season extension ; ) ID […]
Post-Harvest Treatment of Veggies
Note to self – we need to get a copy of the USDA publication The Commercial Storage of Fruits, Vegetables, and Florist and Nursery Stocks. It’s supposed to be very good – accurate and complete (if it’s good enough for Eliot Coleman it’s good enough for me). I’m getting a lot of great tips from […]
SEEDS
we have over 10 different seed catalogs currently spread out on the floor. last december at the young farmer’s conference i met the founder of the hudson valley seed library (turns out we grew up a few miles from each other.) he presented in a panel on seeds – i was really impressed. i had […]
FARM LINK and Collaborators
we registered with farm link! we are hoping to connect with collaborators that can dedicate to the farm full time. our big picture mission is still very general – intentionally – as we know that people are key to this endeavor and want to leave room for co-ownership. COMMUNITY! we also know that we have […]
Starting to cook!
Or… lactoferment. It’s nice to have space in the kitchen (as opposed to Manhattan minifridge). I started out chopping the cabbage by hand, but it was so massive I got tired of it and threw it in the food processor. I tossed 3 tbs of sea salt to about 5 lbs (!!!) of cabbage and […]
Shortcut from the train station
The farm is about a mile from the Metro North station. Lewis has walked the road 4 times and says it takes about 25 minutes. Today we took a shortcut through a field and it came out to about 18. For people who are used to walking everywhere in NYC, that’s not bad at all. […]
It's official – we're on the land!
All the final pieces have come together and we’re officially 100% set to start the farming adventure. We’re at the house now and are going to do a little kitchen set-up before going out to walk the fields. For those of you who may be wondering what’s up with my crazy honey-themed birthday party – […]
Soil samples
We got soil samples tested at U Penn. Cornell Cooperative Extension does nutrient testing as well, but Penn has a wider variety of tests for contamination. In addition to testing for lead and mercury, we tested for PCBs, arsenic, cadmium, and other heavy metals. This is overkill for most properties, but the farm is close […]
