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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