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Can You Guess Who’s Back?
We got the call a few weeks ago. Trying hard to raise her voice above the loud chirping, I could hear the postal worker tell Greg that the turkeys had arrived. The first time we got this call was 7 years ago while living in an apartment in downtown Rochester. The...
Should We Do This?
Want to know our worst nightmare as your organic livestock farmers? The pigs roaming around the neighborhood like a pack of wolves. Now that I’m thinking about it though, maybe wolves aren’t destructive enough for this analogy. Let’s replace the wolves with a family...
You Were Here With Us!
I lived on a Native American reservation once. The tiny little town where I lived is called Fort Defiance and it's located near the border of Arizona and New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation. I was only there for a few months, but it was a fascinating experience. It’s...
I’m Totally Serious Here
I’m basically a squirrel at heart. I already have a few bags of fresh strawberries tucked away in the freezer - they make the perfect addition to smoothies, oatmeal, and pancakes!And if I play my cards right, I’ll get over to my favorite blueberry farm this week and...
A Nest For The Ages
One of our wild avian friends decided to build a nest behind an electrical box on the backside of the Farm Store. When I peered in the other day and saw the perfect dome-shaped nest and imagined how long it must’ve taken her to collect each one of those sticks, I...
A 60+ Year Tradition
My mom’s family started going to a camp in the ADKs over 60 years ago. Her family loved it so much, all the way back then, that they kept going back, year after year. This tradition continued through the next generation and the next. And this is how this one spot in...
Don’t Want You To Miss Out On This
Way back when, we made a deal with the powers that be. If the stars aligned and we were able to keep on growing amazing food for our community, we wouldn’t keep this place for ourselves. We’d share every last bit of it with YOU. This is why we make the time to...
Our Biggest Dream 🤔
There’s a parcel behind our farm that we have our eyes on. It’s vacant land that the current owner uses to hunt and play on. For as long as we’ve lived here, we’ve imagined ourselves owning it. Not for vanity reasons - I know all too well now that having more acres...
That 1% Is The Hardest
We have to castrate all the male pigs on the farm and if you're wondering why, it's because if the testicles stayed in place, you might come to find out that our meat tastes like actual urine. I’m not speaking in hyperbole - if you happened to be among the 75% of the...
Surprise encounters
When your house is old - ours was built in 1846 - you expect to have some surprise encounters with the natural world from time to time. We were still shocked, though, when we renovated the bathroom years ago and discovered that we had unknowingly been cohabitating...
This year’s best farm hack
Before I share all about this year's best Farm Hack, I've got to explain something! One of the most important responsibilities that we have as your farmers, is not losing track of how many animals we have on the farm at any given time. Why's that, you might ask?...
IMPORTANT – don’t miss this one!
I’ve been learning more about the victims of the Tops shooting. Every day, I seem to learn more about their life stories and familiarize myself with their names. While I’ve been thinking about whether to share my thoughts on all this with you, deliberating on what to...
This Will Be Our Biggest Protection
You may not have realized it, but it's happening all around us. Farmers are getting old and they're tired from all those years of working in the fields and adjusting to fickle markets. They’ve come to accept that their kids aren't the least bit interested in taking...
Sometimes This Is Hard
Someone always seems to get sick when the weather changes around here. And last week, when that glorious summer weather was comin' in hot, Bernard was the one who fell sick. He’s the eldest of the two boars we keep on the farm, and Greg always calls him a sweetheart....
Have You Experienced This Yet?
I went back home to Syracuse last weekend for Mother’s Day. My parents and four out of my six siblings were there, with their toddlers, babies and preteens in tow. It was a blast in all the ways that you're envisioning. And without the added responsibility of kids of...