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 … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Alien Asparagus
Essex Farm Tour
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 … [Read more...] about Essex Farm Tour
Essex Farm in Essex, NY
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 … [Read more...] about Essex Farm in Essex, NY
Essex Farm: So Begins the Cycle of Seasons
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 … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: So Begins the Cycle of Seasons
Essex Farm: Muddy-Sweet
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 … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Muddy-Sweet