welcome to the farm
Sep 27 2015
We continue to find old apple and pear trees from the farm’s former life as an orchard. The fruit they produce is not beautiful — and, in fact, not always tasty — but there is some high quality fruit out there. Jen is now able to reach such fruit thanks to our new Flexrake LRB190 Fruit Picker. Jen also tends […]
Sep 20 2015
It is tomato season, which we’ve been celebrating with many colorful tomato salads. From left to right are Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Pineapple Hawaiian, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, and Sungold, all from Jen’s garden. Our weekend was truncated — cut in half, more or less — as a result of an away game against the Cold […]
Sep 14 2015
Sarah had her first soccer game of the season on Saturday. The Ravens (f/k/a Fireballs) played the Red Hook Storm. Sarah played defense with gusto, élan, and vigor. The Ravens fell to the Storm 2-1, but there wasn’t a moment when we doubted that the Ravens could win. Sarah and her friend Anna congratulated each […]
Sep 07 2015
I celebrated Labor Day weekend by laboring — I mowed our biggest hayfield. Most of the Burleighs visited. Lew also labored, reading emails on the back porch. Rinda tucked into Middlemarch on the lawn. Erica seemed skeptical that Sarah was in fact laboring. On Sunday there was a ladies’ swim in the pond — not […]