Back in the nineties, Mom started marketing our farm’s meats with a yellow annual newsletter. While she did that, we tried to learn how we could do it better. We attended farm marketing conferences where we learned about packaging, branding and polish. So we tried making nice labels, developing better packaging. We tried coming up […]
Watch your mail for the yellow envelope!
The spring CSA flyers are going out the week of Feb 13. If you didn’t receive yours, or you lost it, or you need a copy of an order form to share with a friend, you can download them here! If you are a local/regional resident and you pick up your CSA shares at the […]
Unfiltered Writer
Photo courtesy of Justin Behan. A Valentine for my Readers…. “I can’t find the Negroni filter on my iPhone camera app,” Justin texts, “It must be specific to your smart phone.” I’m pretty sure it was just one Negroni. Bob’s into them right now. He convinced me to try one on music night last Sunday. […]
The Voice in My Head
“Is that what you’re wearing?” I sound like every mother ever. We’re rushing to leave for the train station. It’s our last visit down to the city to hang out with Saoirse and Anthony and Vivian for a few days. Then we get to bring Saoirse home for the remainder of the winter. I’ve got […]
Let There Be Eggs.
Photo by Kyle Smith This month of reckoning, estimating, projecting, evaluating, reconciling, and then starting over again and repeating the process is nearly at a close. The annual inventory is done. The website is updated with what’s available for sale, my note pad is scratched up with lists of our overstocks, and the annual […]
Not Just Another Cappuccino
She’s gone again. Our good friends and neighbors, Anthony & Vivian, who own Plowshares Coffee in Harlem and Bloomingdale (and who roast the coffee we serve at Sap Bush Cafe), ran into another labor shortage this January. Saoirse was only too glad to help them out. She threw her sleeping bag and a change of […]
First Month
January’s back. The month of reconciling and reevaluating. Bob’s and my fingers touch every piece of meat on the farm, examining condition, tallying stock, physically assessing what has been damaged, what has sold, what isn’t moving….And why. It’s the month when we pour over the numbers with mom, dad and the crew, celebrating the […]
Ringing in the New Year
It was a joyful tearful moment. Bob finished his treatment at The Proton Center last week. Saoirse and Ula came down to be there with us. He rang the bell to celebrate the end of his treatment and banish the cancer from his body. We hope. We walked out of The Proton Center and took the […]
Hear What You Want
The first time Mom and Dad brought me to New York City, I stood in Grand Central and cried. We were only five minutes off the train, and I pleaded for us to turn around and get on the next one going back upstate. I was twelve, and totally aware that my behavior was most […]
Dancing with Death
He could die. I know prostate cancer is treatable. But our business is not simply an isolated family farm with minimal social networks. We serve the public directly, and that service has put me in contact with many many families for decades. I know a lot of folks who have been affected by cancer. And […]
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