Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
Enjoy this Essex Farm update from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! A quick note today, as the girls and I are off to central New York to pick up a load of seed potatoes – a job that offers a nice excuse to spend the weekend with my parents. Here, asparagus harvest is in [...]
Would you like to take a tour of Essex Farm? Get your chance this summer on May, 11! May is plowing and planting season. Weather permitting, we’ll hitch some horses and see what horse-powered tillage looks like. We tour the fields and barnyard together from 10 until noon, then have a potluck lunch. In the afternoon, you [...]
La Mia Designs produces unique handcrafted items for fashion and interior design. Local North Country artist and La Mia founder, Stephanie DeJoseph likes to add that special touch to her products by choosing environmentally kind materials and adding hand-stitched details. All my products are made with eco-friendly, repurposed, and vintage textiles, and all embroidery is done by hand. ~Stephanie [...]
Sara Kurak and James Graves operate the Full and By Farm CSA in Essex, NY, sometimes with assistance from temporary farmhands and interns. Why “Full and By”? What does whimsical term actually mean? Here is the definition: full and by (adv.) [nautical]: Steering as close to the wind as possible while keeping the sails full. Nestled between [...]
Essex Farm is a CSA farm owned and operated by Mark and Kristin Kimball with help from an always eager rotation of farm hands in Essex, NY. Essex Farm offers a year-round, full diet, free choice membership. We produce grass-fed beef, pastured pork, chicken, eggs, fifty different kinds of vegetables, milk, grains and flour, fruit, herbs, maple [...]
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, [...]
You may remember a meeting in December to discuss the possibility of a common market for farmers and artisans to sell their goods in Essex, NY. The premise of this venture is to offer producers and the community an additional venue for the exchange of local goods (retail, Co-op) to improve and expand the Essex marketplace. Farm Store Essex in Progress Well, [...]
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 [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! The first seeds went into soil this week. We have onions and shallots in the germination chamber, and leeks in the greenhouse. So begins the cycle of seasons. We use soil blocks to start our seeds. They are made out of potting mix [...]
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 [...]
