Essex Farm: Updating Websites

Essex Farm's new chicken coop — Essex Farm’s chicken coop (Image courtesy of Essex Farm)

Enjoy this Essex Farm update from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, in Essex, NY!

We are becoming so high tech around here, in an old-fashioned kind of way. We have a large screen TV in the office trailer now, where Mark projects the day’s objectives during morning team meeting. He is using a program called Trello to organize the farm and his brain – no small tasks, those. And we have a splash page up at our future web site, featuring our new marketing poster. Check it out at www.essexfarmcsa.com. Note that we are eagerly seeking new members right now! If you love the share, please tell your friends. We’d like to add 30 more families by the peak of the season.

Essex Farm Institute

While you’re at it, take a look at the slideshow posted at www.essexfarminstitute.org, which introduces our very exciting new venture. Essex Farm Institute will train farmers to build resilient, diversified farms that are economically viable, socially responsible and environmentally beneficial. Essex Farm Institute is fiscally sponsored by the Open Space Institute, and we aim to enroll our first students in the fall of 2014. Special thanks to Terri Jamison and Ben Stechschulte for the design and photography on both those sites. Let us know what you think, everyone… [Continue reading Kristin Kimball’s Essex Farm Note.]

Essex Farm: Hustle (www.essexonlakechamplain.com)
Essex Farm: Alien Asparagus (www.essexonlakechamplain.com)
Vintage Stereoview: Northern Essex Bay (www.essexonlakechamplain.com)
Essex Community Concert Benefit: Goff Brothers (www.essexonlakechamplain.com)

About Essex Farm

In 2004 Mark and Kristin Kimball founded Essex Farm in Essex, NY. It was the first full-diet CSA farm formed (as far as they know)! Kristin wrote her memoir, The Dirty Life, chronicling her transition from city girl to farm wife and the first year of life at Essex Farm. Since then Kristin continues to chronicle life on the farm on her blog, which we give you snippets of here on the Essex on Lake Champlain Blog.