Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
We have reached the final pickup of the winter share. As we take a break from distributing the trickling remains of last year’s harvest we’re just getting ready to dig in for the new season. Six cute black and white piglets arrived at the farm last Saturday. They have timidly been exploring their new grounds, [...]
The sugaring season has not quite looked up yet. James was reminding us at breakfast that we are officially half-way through (six weeks is generally the amount of time you have before your tap holes start closing up). We’ve only had two not-so-great runs so far, even the warm days aren’t quite warm enough for [...]
This was the first true week of spring on the farm. A week that saw snow showers, pouring rain, hail, and a mixture of all three falling simultaneously while blue sky and puffy white clouds were visible on the southern horizon—like all of spring was being compressed into a handful of moments or days. The [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! Can you feel the sap rising in the trees? It’s the source of that hopeful itch that makes you want to pull on your mud boots and dance in puddles. Most years, this energy goes to good use, as we stomp snowshoe trails [...]
Lakeside School at Black Kettle Farm offers birth – 1st grade education based on the Waldorf philosophy on a working farm in Essex, NY. Each week our Office Administrator, Kathleen Morse, writes on the Lakeside school and community and education based on the Waldorf philosophy through her perspective from the office window. View from the Office [...]
We had a wonderful Saturday in the woods tapping maple trees up at the Hanna’s. The weather forecast promised a full week of warm days and cool nights, each day perfect for a good sap run. Unfortunately we’ve never quite crept above freezing here, the sky’s been blanketed with thick clouds and the sun has [...]
If you are inspired by the paint bucket art currently exhibited at the Depot Theatre in Westport, New York and you’re wondering how you can have your artwork exhibited on in the highly trafficked gallery, you’re in luck! The Depot Theatre is hosting a juried art show open to all area artists. Entries are being [...]
Is there anything sweeter than Adirondack maple syrup? Perhaps not, but the Depot Theatre‘s Artistic Director, Shami McCormick, and artist/children’s book author, Amy Guglielmo, have demonstrated that even old, recycled maple syrup sap gathering buckets retain their sweet Adirondack charm. It’s time for sap bucket art! Remember Guglielmo’s post about the Essex on Lake Champlain [...]
Vermont has cows. London has eggs… In the Adirondacks we paint maple syrup buckets. Last Call for the Sap Bucket Art Project due this Thursday! Calling North Country Artists! The Depot Theatre was recently presented with a donation of 50 vintage maple sap buckets – buckets that can no longer be used for sap collecting. [...]
“It’s a very sweet day here at Essex Farm. First, the literal. Chad, Kim, Sabrina, and a small pack of helpers got well over 300 sugar maples tapped this week. We’ve had decent runs for the last 48 hours, and Chad and our neighbor Ron Jackson have been firing the evaporator since dawn yesterday. Ron [...]
