"The Kimballs designed Essex Farm as a year-round, full-diet CSA with a pricing scheme that’s mind-boggling for the average US consumer. Local members pay $85 a week and can take all the meat, vegetables, dairy, grains, eggs they need for a week of eating. At roughly $4 a meal, … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Reinventing the Business Model for Food Production (Times of Entrepreneurship)
Mark Kimball
Neighbors Series at Library Continues with Kristin and (Maybe) Mark Kimball
Our series, Getting to Know Your Neighbors, continues on Thursday, November 1 at 7:00 p.m. with Kristin Kimball and (maybe) Mark Kimball. Their talk will be followed by Q&A. This event is a fund raiser for the library with a suggested donation of $5.00 (children … [Read more...] about Neighbors Series at Library Continues with Kristin and (Maybe) Mark Kimball
Microsoft Airband Tests New Device on Essex Farm (THE SUN)
Visiting Essex Farm on Friday, Sen. Charles “Chuck” Schumer bounced along farm fields in a wagon pulled by farm draft horses Jake and Abbey. [...] The gathering was timed to bring Microsoft Corporation Airband Initiative developers together with the senator. Airband … [Read more...] about Microsoft Airband Tests New Device on Essex Farm (THE SUN)
Essex Farm: Bread-Baking
Mark has been on a bread-baking tear the last couple of weeks. He recently read Michael Pollan’s Cooked, and has been working on Pollan’s no-knead 100% whole wheat sourdough loaves. It’s not an easy feat, but these loaves have been really good and getting even better. Pollan … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Bread-Baking
Essex Farm: Transfigured
Here’s the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm: The seasons of the year can be read as an equation that comes out even in the end. Addition and subtraction. Positive and negative. Sun and shadow. Objects and their absence. We farm in the north country. Here, summer is … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Transfigured