Archive for the ‘Farms & Friends’ Category
Goats: Living Lawmowers
For the past few weeks, I’ve been waking at 5.45am to a sound not often heard in Brooklyn, New York: the soft, and then loud, and then louder, cry of goats. It’s a truly storybook bah, the kind ...
On the pleasures of urban agriculture
This post appeared on March 24th with the Atlantic. Photo, Adam Golfer.
At 20 years old, when I was a very susceptible young thinker, I read Wendell Berry’s essay “The Pleasures of Eating.” To ...
Lambs & Greenhorns
This weekend, the day and night paced an even twelve hours each, and I drove upstate with four friends to celebrate the equinox in Kinderhook, New York. The event was dinner with the Greenhorns; the ...
Farm Season Begins
This morning, spring jumped the clock forward an hour and the mid-March day, as though awakened from its den, stormed forward like the proverbial lion to rain, hail, rain, mist, and rain again after a brief window of sunshine. Not to be deterred, at 8am ...
Food, fiddlers, farmers: success!
This Saturday night, country mouse and ...
NOFA New York
My first year as a farmer’s apprentice, I asked my farmer, Keith Stewart, what it was he did during the winter. It was almost Christmastime, and my own contracted time on his land in Port Jervis, ...
Winterizing sky-high farmland
Winter is a much-awaited season for me. The anticipation starts for me in August, when after a long (and busy day), I’ll start looking for a place to farm away the holidays in the Southern hemisphere. This year, with cold weather ...
Liberty View Farms
Liberty View Farms, an hour and a half north of New York City, is part apple orchard and part paradise. I drove up yesterday with Paula Crossfield and her friend Melanie to celebrate the ...
