Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 9th, 2013 Time: Tour at 10am; Lunch at Noon; Afternoon session 1-3pm Suggested Donation: $25 adults; $5 for kids Bring: Weather-appropriate clothing, sturdy footwear, delicious food for potluck, your own place setting. Address: 2503 NYS Route 22, Essex, NY, 12936. We are one mile from the Essex-Charlotte Ferry. Contact: essexfarm@gmail.com The March tour is unpredictable. Sometimes it’s a winter [...]
Lots of baby news on the farm this week. The first sow had her littler last night. We went to check her just before supper, Miranda in the backpack, Mark on the crutches, Jane trotting alongside. The pig was up, grunting, looking fine, and her feed and water looked good, but just as I turned [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! Well, Mark wrecked his knee at Whiteface last week. It was supposed to be a recreational day of skiing for our whole crew. I was tempted to go, to watch a pack of farmers careen down the mountain, but I decided to stay [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! After bragging to Mark about how dang successful I’ve been at avoiding illness this year, I’m down with fever and sniffles today, so a quick note before I crawl back to bed. Last Sunday, Mark and I rode Jay and Jack down to [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! It’s planning season, always an optimistic time. It’s good to dream of what could be while the days are short and our spirits are fresh. It makes for some BIG dreams, and they might lose some of their puff as spring comes along [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! Real cold this week for the first time in two years. The thermometer at the house read negative 8 just before dawn yesterday morning. I kept the woodstove jacked all day on dry split wood. I don’t know if I will always love [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! The year is tiptoeing toward its exit, white and hushed, and here on the farm, it is going happily, peacefully. Amy, Cory and Stephen stuck around for Christmas, and Kelsey and Travis came back just in time to help get things buttoned up [...]
Enjoy this Essex Farm Note from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY! I’m traveling today, so am sending news from afar, and it may be a little stale, as I haven’t had news from the farm since yesterday morning. Clara had her calf this week, a little heifer named Corey. She is tall and brown, [...]
