Here's the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm in Essex, New York: "I’m home on a 24 hour visit, halfway through my writing residency at the Blue Mountain Center. The residency is heavenly but I have missed family and farm. I watched the leaves turning and falling … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Digging Potatoes
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Full and By Farm: Digging for Potatoes
I've spent much of the last two weeks on my knees, digging through the soil on the search for potatoes, a cloud of fine dust has been following me all through the day like Pig-Pen from Charlie Brown. This year the search hasn't been very hard. We have 2900 pounds so far, and a … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Digging for Potatoes
Full and By Farm: “Boy, that’s one good potato.”
"Boy, that's one good potato" is a sentiment expressed around our house a lot lately. It's been a few weeks since we dug into the bags of russet potatoes and I haven't wanted to look back since. Moist, firm, waxy, dry and mealy are the terms bandied about in seed catalogues to … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: “Boy, that’s one good potato.”