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Our Feverfew is enjoying a moment in the late summer garden. Also enjoying a moment: our rhubarb, as well as Jen, whose birthday was Friday.   She celebrated (after a nice birthday supper at Le Petit Bistro) by combining the rhubarb with blackberries to make Rhu-Berry jam.  Jen entered that, together with four other jams, in […]

This is not our entire 2017 peach crop, but it is a majority of it.  Still, they’re pretty nice looking!

Jen ranges far and wide gathering berries.  If you look carefully, you can see her trusty companion, Daisy.

It rained all day on Memorial Day.  I was already a bit sad because this was the first year that Sarah did not march in the Memorial Day Parade. She has, however, kept busy.  In anticipation of camp, less than a month away, Sarah has been practicing the ukulele. We had a number of visitors, […]

Jen enjoyed her traditional Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. We took Daisy for a walk in the woods and found this mother of seven plying the swamp. After years of searching, certain they were beneath our noses, we found morels in the woods.  They say that once you find one, you’ll see them everywhere.  That’s […]

We cooked up a storm for Thanksgiving.  Here is Jen making three pies simultaneously. We got a monster turkey from Frank Vosburgh at Kesicke Farm — 25.75 pounds.  It was the smallest one he had. Julie and Stacey came in uniform. Sarah danced whenever not organizing or playing board games. Her grandfather looked on bemusedly.

Jen gathered the remaining tomatoes and peppers ahead of tonight’s possible frost.  I guess we can have fried or pickled green tomatoes, but I have no idea what to do with all those peppers (many of which are outside the frame).  

Jen grew this teeny weeny melon in her garden.  Now we are in a race against time — or, rather, against the first frost, which thank goodness is not forecast to arrive this week. Daisy pursues the fall sports.

We had a busy weekend, hosting the Winnakee Land Trust Barn Tour on Saturday and the Landsman Kill Trail Association Fall Trail Ride on Sunday.   Our barn, which is 100 years old this year, has one of the earliest poured concrete foundations in Dutchess County. On Saturday I tried to give the barn tourists an authentic farm experience […]

Jen’s garden is producing more tomatoes than we can comfortably eat, but we are doing our best to keep up, with tomato salads, tomato tarts, BLTs, bagels with cream cheese and tomatoes — you name it.  Jen is even working on a tomato jam. We had a bat mitzvah-shortened weekend in the country, but on […]