
Sara Kurak and James Graves operate the Full and By Farm CSA in Essex, NY, with assistance from temporary farmhands and interns.
Why “Full and By”? What does this whimsical name actually mean? Here is the definition:
full and by (adv.) [nautical]: Steering as close to the wind as possible while keeping the sails full.

Nestled between the Boquet River and Boquet Mountain, this land was historically a holstein dairy, now reborn as a diversified vegetable and livestock farm. Combining ancient, proven cultivation techniques with the latest innovations in sustainable growing methods and resource conservation, we are rejuvenating a local landmark while generating sustenance for the community.
Contact the farm at fullandbyfarm@gmail.com or 518-963-7127.
The Full and By Share
We all eat differently. At Full and By Farm we celebrate this individuality with options to fully customize your own share. Choose to include vegetables, meats or eggs in a variety of quantities.
Our Main Farm Season runs from June through the end of December and features the freshest seasonal produce, meats and pastured eggs. The Storage + Spring Season sets your table from January through May, feeding you storage root crops, grains and dry beans, sprouted greens, fermented foods, fresh eggs and meat from our freezers. Maple syrup, asparagus and spinach show up fresh in the early spring.
Pickups are at Full and By Farm on Thursdays from 4 until 6 p.m. If you cannot make it to pickup, please have someone else come for your share or notify us by 8 am Thursday to donate it to the food pantry. Stop by the farm for self-serve late pickup on Fridays and Saturdays, 9-5.
How Full and By Farm Works
At Full and By Farm we continually strive to produce that tastiest food with the most sustainable organic methods—minimizing petroleum inputs throughout the farm system (diesel fuel, fertilizers, plastic mulches and covers), raising animals in as humane and natural a setting as possible, limiting food packaging and time spent in transit, and keeping medication and pesticides out of our food, our bodies and our environment.

Employing draft horses for work otherwise done by tractors helps keep the soil and air on the farm clean and keeps the use of costly diesel fuel to a minimum. Our horses are the main source of mechanical advantage in the vegetable fields and sugarbush, and play a major role in haymaking and grain production.
Why the Full and By Farm CSA?
Membership at Full and By puts you in direct contact with the farmers who grow your food. This close relationship empowers you with the unique opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback directly to the people making the products. On any given day you will find us in the fields and around the barnyard, and you’ll see us every week at pickup!
We love input and encourage members to become involved through active feedback, helping in the fields and barns or coming by for a walk on the farm. Joining a CSA is an opportunity to become better connected to the world around you—to share food and experiences with your neighbors and to connect your eating to the rhythm of the seasons.

Membership in a CSA is an investment. You are not simply purchasing a finished product, but are hiring us–as growers–to produce goods directly for you. You share in the joys of the freshest, as well as the disappointment of an occasional set-back. We pledge to do our best with whatever the weather, soil, insects, and animals throw our way; in trade we pass that bounty on to you.
Supporting our local business helps keep your money in this community–we in turn purchase building materials, grain and farm supplies locally. Help us maintain this local landscape, take part in preserving and restoring a piece of agrarian and architectural heritage that community is so rich in.
Full and By Farm Animals and Vegetables
What you can expect in a vegetable share: Asparagus, apple cider, beans, beets, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, corn meal, cucumbers, dry beans, garlic, herbs, kale, leeks, lettuce, maple syrup, melons, onions, parsnips, peas, peppers, potatoes, radishes, spinach, strawberries, summer squash, swiss chard, tomatoes, wheat berries, whole wheat flour, and winter squash. No pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers are ever used.
Our vegetable share now comes in two sizes:
Free Choice share: Our traditional all-you-can-eat share that gives you full choice in what and how much to take from all the produce, grains, dry beans and value-added goodies available each week. Members are encouraged to take extra veggies for canning when they are available throughout the season. We strive to provide the greatest variety possible for you to select from—our share prices reflect the knowledge that members do not take everything offered each week, but choose their favorites from it.

Taste of the Farm share: For members who want just a taste of the seasonal produce and CSA experience without the full share commitment. We select 3-4 items from the fresh produce available each week. A typical pick-up might include 1/2 lb of greens, a pint of beans or tomatoes, and a bunch of carrots.
What you can expect in a meat share: Sign-up for how many pounds per week your household uses, then choose what cuts you want from the available selection of pork, beef and chicken.
Our pork comes from heritage breeds known for their remarkable performance out on range. The hogs derive a good deal of their calories from rooting in the pasture, supplemented with vegetable scraps, organic grains and dairy by-products. Members choose from chops, roasts, artisan sausages, spare ribs, ham steaks, scrapple, rendered lard, and delectable maple-cured bacon.
We raise Beef from our herd of American Milking Devons–a heritage breed prized for exceptional flavor and texture on a 100% grass-fed diet. We rotationally graze our cows and steers, providing fresh grass and pasture plants daily in the summer and hay in the winter. Cuts include steaks, roasts ground beef, stew beef, short ribs, organ meats and homemade stock.

Broiler chickens are pasture-raised, they move daily and harvest their own grass, bugs and worms to supplement their diet of organic grains. Broiler Chickens are delicious roasted, grilled, fried, or in soup. Whole and half chickens weigh approximately 4 and 2 lbs. respectively.
What you can expect in an egg share: Our laying hens spend all but the coldest months on pasture, roosting in a range coop which is moved daily. They spend their days eating bugs and grazing on the weeds and grasses. Unlike many farm-fresh producers we feed only organic grains. You can tell if an egg is fresh if the yolk sits high when you break it; and if a chicken has been dining on pasture, the yolk is school bus yellow in color.
To learn more about membership contact the farm by email at fullandbyfarm@gmail.com or call 518-963-7127 to ask questions and request a membership form.
How to Find Full and By Farm
Full and By Farm is located at 319 Leaning Road, Essex, NY 12936.
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Full and By Farm Archive
The following posts featured or mentioned Full and By Farm since June 2011.
- Full and By Farm: Heat and Dry SkiesWe’re holding out for a good (yet non-damaging) thunderstorm to roll through here this afternoon and break the heat and ...
- Full and By Farm: Dwindling Egg NumbersYou may have noticed in the last few weeks that the egg compartment looks a little more spacious than usual. ...
- Full and By Farm: A Pretty Beautiful SeasonThis has been a pretty beautiful season so far. Three-quarters of our fields are in some stage of haying and ...
- Wi-fi Disruptions Causing Headaches for Local Residents (The Sun)“For the past two weeks, wireless internet service to a handful of local businesses and residents has been disrupted. At times, ...
- Full and By Farm: Weed KillingThe hot, dry days make for good weed killing. We’ve been hoeing, cultivating, harrowing and handweeding like crazy, getting caught ...
- Full and By Farm: Hot, Dry SpringIt is the last pick-up of the winter share and it’s a good one to leave that season behind on. ...
- Building Bridges & Another Conservation Easement Success StoryBuilding Bridges for Grand Hike to the Essex Inn We built some bridges in preparation for the May 14th Grand Hike ...
- Benefit to Aid Local Farm Scorched by Fire (The Sun)Six weeks after a fast-burning fire incinerated the barn at Reber Rock Farm, the community has raised $26,000 in reconstruction ...
- James Graves Discusses Full and By Farm’s Barn RaisingA barn raising takes a village. From the first footers buried in the earth to the rafters criss-crossing the skies, there’s ...
- Full and By Farm: Barn RaisingAfter lots of waiting and plenty of pleading summer has finally made it to our vegetables fields. True, it is ...
- Full and By Farm: Week-Long Work PartyI’ve been too scrunched for time on Thursday’s to get many farm notes out this summer. But, we did want ...
- Full and By Farm: Cutting and Baling HayWe got one more hay field cut and baled this week. This round only got rained on one half inch. ...
- Full and By Farm: Up to Our EyeballsIt’s been a few weeks since I’ve managed a note. We’ve been up to our eyeballs in weeds, fall transplanting ...
- Full and By Farm: More Rain This WeekI’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but more rain this week has been taking its toll on the ...
- Full and By Farm: Dogged By Heavy RainsWe continue to be dogged by heavy rains here—delaying our seeding, transplanting, weed control and now hay making. We spent ...
- Full and By Farm: Rain and Then SomeThree and a half inches of rain answered our needs and then some. It also stopped us in our tracks ...
- Full and By Farm: Grants, Greens, & VolunteersWe’re still glowing from yesterday’s news that we are going to receive a grant from New York State for construction ...
- Full and By Farm: Three Season in Two WeeksIn the two weeks since I wrote the last farm note I feel like we have lived through three seasons. ...
- Full and By Farm: Some Dry DaysIt was a great week for getting caught up on outdoor work. The brisk wind dried the saturated soil out ...
- Full and By Farm: Mud Brings ChangesThis week the horses are muddy, the chickens are muddy and the people are muddy. But mud brings lots of ...
- Full and By Farm: Surprise VisitorsOur first real taste of spring this week, and everyone’s spirits are riding high in the sunshine and warm temperatures. ...
- Full and By Farm: Great SugaringWe’ve had a run of perfectly warm days and cool nights—setting us up for great sugaring weather this past week. ...
- Lakeside School: Farm and Forest Summer CampFarm and Forest Summer Camp at Black Kettle Farm Join us this summer for Farm and Forest Summer Camp at Lakeside ...
- Full and By Farm: Tapping the SugarbushMonday was a glorious day for tapping—our coats, vests, gloves and hats being dropped like bread crumbs along the path ...
- Essex County AgricultureIf you missed the great article in the Valley News, “Essex County agricultural community reflects on past year, offers 2015 wish ...
- Full and By Farm: Lists of WorkThanks to those who came out Friday to stomp on bean pods and free up the beautifully colored beans. We ...
- Full and By Farm: Work Party FridayWork party friday — come help us put a big dent in the piles of drying bean pods! The beans ...
- Full and By Farm: Sloggin’ Through Snow DriftsAnother cold and snowy week—a week sloggin’ through snow drifts, feeding out hay and keeping water running. We’ve been really ...
- 2014 Grand Hike RetrospectiveWith the “Blizzard of 2015” already waning, my mind turns to sunnier spring days in the Champlain Valley. In case you ...
- Full and By Farm: Ice Dominates BarnyardAnother cold but sunny day. The animals and farmers are all shuffling around cautiously this week, trying not to slip ...
- Full and By Farm: Avoiding the ColdIt’s a lovely blue bird day out there—a nice break from the windy, frosty days and nights of late. The ...
- Full and By Farm: Moving Heifer CalvesThis is the last pick-up of the regular season share, and a warm one it is. The perfect day for ...
- Full and By Farm: Baking Sweet Wheat BreadA very sunny Saturday made for a beautiful break in the wintry weather. From my kitchen window I looked out ...
- Full and By Farm: Shoveling SnowWe’ve had someone shoveling just about around the clock here for the last couple of days, with no signs of ...
- Holiday Farmers’ Market at the GrangeThe Whallonsburg Grange will host a Holiday Farmers’ Market and Food Pantry Fundraiser on Saturday, December 20, from 1:00 to ...
- Full and By Farm: Snowy Skies and Freezing GroundDecember, snowy skies and freezing ground are upon us. Within hours of our thanksgiving guests arriving at the farm last ...
- Full and By Farm: Thanksgiving Pick UpWe are holding a special csa pick up TONIGHT—load up on your weekly goods as well as thanksgiving dinner ingredients, ...
- Full and By Farm: Good Season for BakingNext Thursday is Thanksgiving so we will be holding csa pick up on Tuesday from 4 -6. Load up on ...
- Full and By Farm: Fresh Greens Still Coming InNovember has just started to show itself on the greens in the field. The less tolerant varieties of lettuce have ...
- Full and By Farm: Ahead on Winter PrepWe are cruising ahead this year on winter prep—all but a few hearty veggies are now out of the field, ...
- Full and By Farm: Root PullingYesterday was root pulling day. All of the recent rain has saturated the soil passed the point of absorption, and ...
- Full and By Farm: Updating TechnologiesHigh speed internet and cell phones are new and novel technologies around here—we’ve switched over from dial-up and our old ...
- Full and By Farm: Winter Fields ReadyThe last of the winter-time veggie field prep was finished as the sun fell yesterday evening, just in time for ...
- Volunteers from Across Country Help CATS TrailThis week CATS is pleased to have hikers and retirees from across the country volunteering their time, expertise, and energy ...
- Full and By Farm: Digging for PotatoesI’ve spent much of the last two weeks on my knees, digging through the soil on the search for potatoes, ...
- Full and By Farm: Frost in the ForecastPatchy frost is in the forecast for tonight so we’re preparing the fields for our first real cold of the ...
- Full and By Farm: Fall Moving In SlowlyWe are still enjoying plenty of summer treats held over from last week’s hot weather—sweet corn and big, juicy melons. ...
- Full and By Farm: Final Haymaking WeekWe are in the final week of this year’s haymaking, with the last two beautiful, clover-rich fields cut and drying. ...
- Full and By Farm: Wet and MuddyApologies first for a run of weeks with no farm note. Our internet has been going down every time we ...
- Full and By Farm: Rain ContinuesAfter last week’s quick rain storm refreshed the plants James remarked that we really needed about 4 more inches to ...
- Lakeside School: Farm & Forest Summer CampLakeside School at Black Kettle Farm offers birth – 3rd grade education and Farm and Forest Summer Camp based on the Waldorf philosophy ...
- Full and By Farm: Storms Bring ReliefYesterday’s storms brought great relief to the dry fields. The momentary chill in the air was all too quickly replaced ...
- Full and By Farm: Summer HeatThe work load has felt like full on summer for a few weeks now. The heat however just caught up—the ...
- Full and By Farm: Haymaking FarmersAfter six days of mowing, raking, baling and moving hay bales from dawn till past dusk we all looked like ...
- Full and By Farm: Magical Year in the Fields (So Far)This has been a magical year in the fields so far—a near perfect mix of sun, rain, warm and cool ...
- Full and By Farm: Leek Moth LarvaEarly Monday I went out to the vegetable field to make up a work list for the week. This year’s ...
- Full and By Farm: Monthly Farm ToursJames has been dreaming and scheming about a monthly farm program that he is calling Full and By First Hand. ...
- Lakeside School: Balance Between Form and FreedomLakeside School at Black Kettle Farm offers birth – 2nd grade (soon to be 3rd grade) education and Farm and Forest ...
- Full and By Farm: Spring GreensSpring greens have arrived in abundance. The leaves that were much too small to even think about cutting last Thursday ...
- Full and By Farm: Grateful Spring ShowersIt is nice to sit inside typing as gentle rain runs down the windows. We were grateful for last week’s ...
- Full and By Farm: Fully Green HillsidesThe hillsides have filled in with green finally, the bright spring greens of new leaves set against the dark needles ...
- Full and By Farm: Seeds and SeedlingsThe lush, green, humid atmosphere that the greenhouse has been working up to over the last few months has dissipated ...
- Full and By Farm: Preparing FieldsWe’ve made use of drier than expected weather this week—spending days in the fields preparing for vegetable seeding and transplanting. ...
- Full and By Farm: The Grass is GreenerThe world did that magic thing this week—when suddenly you look out the window mid-day and realize that the grass ...
- Full and By Farm: Spring Has Finally SprungSpring has finally sprung. At the start of last weekend it seemed that we were in the midst of the ...
- Full and By Farm: Sugaring Dream WeekWe’re finally having the sugaring week that we have all been dreaming of. Tuesday brought us our biggest collection this ...
- Full and By Farm: Extra Cold Temperatures Create DelaysLast weekend’s temperatures eeked just enough above freezing for another sap collection. Though it was small it did allow us ...
- Full and By Farm: Snow Challenges Sugar CollectingLast weekend’s promise of warm sunny days left us disappointed and chilled. The temperatures just made it above freezing Saturday morning, ...
- Full and By Farm: Sugaring SeasonSugaring season is in the air now, an exciting time not just for the promise of days and evenings spent ...
- Full and By Farm: Super Wheat BerriesWe are featuring chef Doug’s wheat berry salad for veggie members this evening. Wheat berries are a super nutrient-packed whole ...
- Full and By Farm: Dreaming of SpringI’ve spent the last week digging into old records, field maps and beautifully glossy seed catalogues. Washing the slate clean ...
- Full and By Farm: Fuzzy Winter HorsesThe horses came in yesterday for the first time this winter. James says they look like big, giant marshmallows covered ...
- Full and By Farm: SproutsWe are all giddy over having Doug back at the farm with us for the winter. Many of you will ...
- Full and By Farm: Sleepy Winter PatternsThere is not a lot of farming news this week. We are happily settled into our sleepy winter patterns of ...
- Reber Rock Farm Fotofeed #4: Year in ReviewClick on a photo for a larger image view and to read short captions. Read the complete captions below for ...
- Full and By Farm: Mosaic PuzzlesAfter visiting years ago a friend described to me the sensation that our farm was like one of those mosaic ...
- Essex-Whallonsburg Entrepreneurs Unite!I believe a major event occurred in Essex on December 10th—a meeting was held to brainstorm and assess the needs ...
- Full and By Farm: Pastures Coated in IceLast week’s cold winds and blowing snow seem so happily far in the past. Brad and I spent Thursday evening up through Saturday working ...
- Full and By Farm: Frozen on the FarmI was surprised how thoroughly frozen I felt during morning chores today—watering eyes, burning cheeks, bare fingers numb and red ...
- Full and By Farm: Finishing Regular Season ShareWith a belly far too full to be thinking about food, I will be setting up the share this afternoon ...
- Full and By Farm: Faring Well in the ColdThe thirty degree weather outside is positively balmy this morning. There’s almost no need for hat or gloves to keep ...
- Full and By Farm: Readying for WinterThe past week has felt like a whirlwind going by, not unlike a windy little snow squall passing quickly over ...
- Essex-Whallonsburg Entrepreneurs MeetingWow! I am thrilled with the great feedback and a flurry of new additions to the growing list of people ...
- Full and By Farm: Rejoicing in LightAs we are approaching the darkest days of the year, we, here at the farm, have been rejoicing in light. ...
- Full and By Farm: Thanksgiving Pick-up TodayCome by the farm TONIGHT for a special pre-Thanksgiving pick-up. Given the nasty snowy, sleety, rainy weather predicted we’ll start ...
- Full and By Farm: Getting Ready for ThanksgivingNext Thursday is Thanksgiving, the delectable annual harvest festival! We will be distributing food on Tuesday of next week to make time for ...
- Full and By Farm: Barn Building ContinuesThe eternal and infernal moving around continues in the bank barn. We put up the walls in the kitchen and ...
- Full and By Farm: Harvest PartyWe are having a harvest party this Sunday at 10am, followed by a pot-luck lunch at 1pm. We’ll be focusing on getting ...
- Full and By Farm: Preparing for ColdIt’s been a busy week in preparation for the first real cold snap of the season. A weeks worth of nights ...
- Full and By Farm: Fall TreatsWe have pumpkins and baby gourds in the share this week. They will be on display tonight out front, pick one ...
- Full and By Farm: More Cider and A New CalfThis week we have apples picked, washed and ready to press! Bring a jar to take some cider home for real ...
- Full and By Farm: Fall GiftsIn honor of fresh pork we are back at the cider press this week, please bring a jar with you to ...
- Full and By Farm: Bank Barn Winter PreparationsWe’ve been focusing the last two weeks on getting the bank barn closed in for winter. We brought in some help ...
- Full and By Farm: Wheat Cleaning AdventuresWe’ve been fussing all week with an old borrowed seed cleaner, attempting to clean the debris and weed seed out of ...
- Full and By Farm: End of Summer Field WorkOur end of summer field work is just wrapping up. We have next year’s veggie field spread with compost and cover ...
- Full and By Farm: Cider MakingWe are all set up for more cider making tonight during the share. We have some nice sweet apples to mix ...
- Daily Doodle: Amy Guglielmo’s Essex in a JarToday we’re showcasing a whimsical Essex doodle from our live performance at The Depot Theatre on July 23, 2013. This ...
- Full and By Farm: Summer and Fall IntertwineWith so late a start to the farm season it seems that summer and fall are showing up together this year. ...
- Full and By Farm: Vegetable Fields Continue ImprovingThe Full and By Farm vegetable fields continue to improve by the day. The summer cabbage is bulking up and the ...
- Full and By Farm: Tempting Root VegetablesIt felt right to be harvesting carrots this morning, bundled up in my fleece, down vest and hat. With my ...
- Full and By Farm: Taking Back the FieldsWell into August now and still pushing hard to get caught up from the early summer rainy season. The transplanting and ...
- Full and By Farm: Summer VeggiesWe finally have some summer veggies starting to show up in the share—zucchini, cucumbers and eggplants, as well as the extremely ...
- Full and By Farm: Cruising AlongWe are cruising right along with hay making and construction projects this week. We’ve finished up making square bales and have ...
- Full and By Farm: Heat Good for HayWe spent the weekend and early part of this week bringing hay into the barn. The conditions were great for drying ...
- Full and By Farm: Good News and Bad NewsA beautiful seven day forecast is in front of us. The fields are still mushy, but the water that has been ...
- Reber Rock Farm Fotofeed #1: Just Getting StartedReber Rock Farm is an 88-acre draft powered farm on the southern edge of the Reber Valley in Essex, NY. ...
- Full and By Farm: Bank BarnA few weeks ago Doug realized that the Bank Barn got it’s name because it’s built into a bank of land ...
- Full and By Farm: Menacing SkiesHot and steamy sunshine during the past week helped dry up the fields a bit between one downpour and the next. ...
- Full and By Farm: Harvest WoesWhen we hit mid-May I invariably look around and fearfully wonder what on earth we are going to harvest for ...
- Full and By Farm: OversaturationThe ground had been just keeping up with the past weeks of rain until we hit Thursday night. The last ...
- Grange Community Kitchen: James Graves Teaches Tortilla MakingMonday, May 6 at 6pm Tortilla Making and Mexican Dinner At Whallonsburg Grange Hall Celebrate Seis de Mayo! Come and learn the art of ...
- Full and By Farm CSA in Essex, NYSara Kurak and James Graves operate the Full and By Farm CSA in Essex, NY, sometimes with assistance from temporary farmhands and ...
- Full and By Farm: Digging into the New SeasonWe have reached the final pickup of the winter share. As we take a break from distributing the trickling remains ...
- Full and By Farm: Time Yet for Good ThingsThe sugaring season has not quite looked up yet. James was reminding us at breakfast that we are officially half-way ...
- Full and By Farm: True SpringThis was the first true week of spring on the farm. A week that saw snow showers, pouring rain, hail, ...
- Full and By Farm: Empty Sap BucketsWe had a wonderful Saturday in the woods tapping maple trees up at the Hanna’s. The weather forecast promised a ...
- Full and By Farm: Planning for New SeasonPlanning for the coming farm season is well under way. An idea we are working on is for Nathan and ...
- Whallonsburg Grange Lyceum: A Discussion with Local FarmersWhallonsburg Grange Hall is hosting a lyceum lecture series called “Land and Labor: The Past, Present and Future of Farming in America.” ...
- Full and By Farm: Share MembershipWe have membership forms for the 2013 farm season ready today. We will hold space for current members until March ...
- Full and By Farm: Dry Winter WorriesThe thrill of new snowfall last Thursday came and went quickly. I was coat-less by Monday afternoon’s chores and looking ...
- Full and By Farm: Seeds for a New SeasonI’m back on frozen ground this week and looking forward to a nice snowfall tomorrow. I did manage to focus ...
- Full and By Farm: Reporting from AwayI am writing from a long way off this week, with James holding down the fort solo. I brought what ...
- Full and By Farm: Corn Wins and WoesBefore leaving last weekend, Abbie pedal-ground a full pail of blue corn meal, the newest addition to the winter veggie line-up. ...
- Full and By Farm: Fresh Dried BeansWith the help of Joanna, Kathy and Anne we made big progress on our bean threshing and winnowing this past week. ...
- Full and By Farm: Days Lengthen…Just a BitThe past week has brought a subtle change—steadily earlier mornings and later evenings. The dark days on either side of the ...
- Full and By Farm: Cats Win in Winter ColdYour pick-up may be a little faster today, and the roots a little less scrubbed (at negative five the water ...
- Full and By Farm: End of the YearWe are looking out this calm morning onto a beautiful snowy world. We are also looking in on barns filled with ...
- Full and By Farm: No Adventures This WeekI heard last week that “adventure is just poor planning”—a quote by Roald Amundsen, leader of the first team to successfully ...
- Full and By Farm: Farm-made CraftsWe have handouts in the share today. Fabric grocery bags from Adirondack Harvest, a new batch of lavender soap from ...
- Full and By Farm: Winter PreparationsAt this point in our farm’s life there is no such thing as being truly prepared for winter. With our swiss ...
- Full and By Farm: New CalvesWinter and Willa, the jersey cows are in the barn for the winter, along with their calves and two young heifers. ...
- Full and By Farm: Thanksgiving FixingsWe have a special Thanksgiving week pick-up TONIGHT between 4 and 6—sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts and ...
- Full and By Farm: Progress on the CellarsWe said goodbye to our latest round of construction help on Saturday. Having traveled up from Louisville, David and Drew ...
- Full and By Farm: Late FallThe first truly cold weather of the season sent us in search of properly drained hoses and scrambling to get a ...
- Full and By Farm: Preparations & Corn BreadThe all-star bean picking team enjoyed great weather and company as we slowly worked our way down the long rows of ...
- Full and By Farm: Bean PickingThe shelling beans are about as crispy as they are going to get, with a dry week behind them and another ...
- Full and By Farm: Officially Changed Eating SeasonsWith a couple of nice, frosty nights under our belts we’ve officially changed eating seasons. This is the time of year ...
- Full and By Farm: Frost to ComeI was surprised to open the door to a heavy frost a few mornings ago. It wasn’t quite enough to finish ...
- Full and By Farm: Making the Storage CutThese unseasonably warm temperatures don’t feel quite like winter squash weather. Despite that, in honor of October, we are putting out the ...
- Full and By Farm: Crops Readying for WinterWe harvested this year’s potato crop under dark, heavy clouds last Saturday. Thanks to the all-star team of potato pickers we ...
- Full and By Farm: Fall on the WayFrom my pre-dawn vantage point it looks like we were spared of frost last night. Our first close call of the ...
- Full and By Farm: Upcoming Dinner & Work PartyThe pumpkin field is brimming with giant, beautiful orange globes begging to be carved. In celebration we are holding our annual ...
- Full and By Farm: Rain at Last!I ran outside in the pre-dawn darkness yesterday to check the rain gauge. I was greeted with an incredibly gorgeous ...
- Full and By Farm: A Field Wasteland ImprovedThe hot summer weather last weekend drained our soil of anything resembling moisture once again. We’re back to the dry, dusty ...
- Treating Late BlightLate Blight is a water mold that infects plants and can devastate a farmer’s tomato or potato crops. Knowing how to ...
- Full and By Farm: Thinking AheadI am reminded of the first spring flush of grass right now—bright, vibrant and growing by the day. The cattle are ...
- Full and By Farm: Only Good NewsIt’s a sheer delight to walk out into wet soil. Everything seems to be standing a little taller and happier after ...
- Full and By Farm: Late Blight UpdateWe’re back on the hay wagons again. Since there isn’t any second cut hay in sight we’ve returned to first ...
- Full and By Farm: Help from Mother Nature & TexansThe fields thirstily drank up three quartersinch of rain yesterday. I had just begun to irrigate very modestly again, taking just ...
- Full and By Farm: Water IssuesOn Friday our spring ran dry. We cobbled together a makeshift water system for ourselves and the animals—siphoning out of the ...
- Full and By Farm: We Need a DrinkThe scant quarter inchof rain we finally collected this week was not enough to make much of a dent in the ...
- Full and By Farm: Adages to Live ByIn the early days—before the arrival of the horses—lifting, pulling, dragging, and cultivating were all done by hand, and shoulder, back, ...
- Full and By Farm: Water from the Sky and BoquetThe pale, parched soil gladly accepted a little rain yesterday. We are still sorely dry around here but the established vegetables ...
- Full and By Farm: Good Things to ComeThigh-high by the 28th of June doesn’t have quite the ring to it, but it sure looks nice. Our first ever ...
- Full and By Farm: Garlic Scapes and SoapWe’ve all passed the exhaustion stage and have made it safely to delirium. With just one and a half fields of ...
- Full and By Farm: Big Projects, Less SleepA largely sleepless week has left all of us dragging in our boots. Haymaking and construction projects have had everyone staying ...
- Full and By Farm: Things Are Growing!During an evening dip in the pond last week I was reveling over the deep brown of my arms and shoulders—about ...
- The Eddy Foundation Protects AdirondacksThe Eddy Foundation is a non-profit environmental foundation that purchases and preserves wildlands in the eastern Adirondacks of northern New York ...
- Full and By Farm: AsparagusIs there such a thing as too much asparagus? Impossible! Especially when it’s succulent purple asparagus… Sara Kurak of Full and ...
- Turtle CrossingJen Zahorchak‘s essay “Turtle Crossing” is a humorous, informative and entertaining entry in the Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest. ...
- FarmHack Intervale/Essex“FarmHack is a community for those who embrace the long-standing farm traditions of tinkering, inventing, fabricating, tweaking, and improving things ...
- Full and By Farm: Grains Drain the WalletThe good news is that we found local-ish organic wheat for the season, six tons were delivered from Vermont yesterday. With ...
- Full and By Farm: A Stolen MonthWe’ve yet to take down the buckets but it seems that sugaring season has come to a close, a full week ...
- Full and By Farm: Farm AmbianceIt’s been another busy sugar-season week, dominated by long days and late nights of boiling sap. This time of year we ...
- Full and By Farm: Sweet Syrup and PoliticsWe boiled syrup late into Monday night. I split wood by the nearly full moon as it reflected brightly off of ...
- Looking Home | Champlain Area TrailsStites McDaniel is the director of Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center and his experience in the outdoors prompted him to enter the Champlain Area Trails ...
- Full and By Farm: Fermented FoodsDon’t forget that summer share forms are due today for Full and By Farm. Meeting this deadline will get you a ...
- Full and By Farm: Choosing SeedsI sat down this week to peruse and place the big annual seed order, one of the coziest and most delightful ...
- Full and By Farm: Community ThanksA cold and quiet week has passed at the farm. Entering numbers into computer programs and trying my best to decipher ...
- Full and By Farm: Butchering the BullWe tackled Hal this week, at least the front quarters of him, and he’s proven to be quite formidable. Beef ...
- 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 ...
- Full and By Farm: Cattle Escape in the NightA few months ago I would have just about taken a nap in the pasture with our beloved bull Hal. ...
- Full and By Farm: Preparing for WinterSorry this is so belated, I lost power mid-way through the second paragraph and only recently have had it restored. We ...
- Full and By Farm: Fresh Thanksgiving IngredientsWith all of the spring like weather it is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is coming up. Since the holiday ...
- Full and By Farm: Bonding in the FieldFresh leaves are back this week. We have small, but beautiful, lettuce heads to pull from the field today. I ...
- Full and By Farm: Root Success and FailureThanks to Elizabeth and the Henderson clan for coming out in the beautiful sunshine Sunday and making quick work of ...
- Full and By Farm: Fall on the FarmUnder a thick layer of wool I finally pulled the tomato stakes yesterday afternoon, prepping that section of field to ...
- Full and By Farm: Making Cider, Butter, and SausageThe temperatures are starting to drop a little bit, but the rain is still going strong. I haven’t experienced terribly ...
- Full and By Farm: Rain, Rain Go AwayOne of the most exciting thing that I’ve seen lately is the seven day forecast. It feels like we are ...
- Full and By Farm: Welcomes Vacation, Birth, and RainI’m away on some much needed vacation for the week, and have done my best to stay ignorant on happenings ...
- Full and By Farm, August 11We’ve enjoyed some much needed rain in the last few days. It’s refreshing to look out and see dark soil ...
- Full and By Farm: More Rain & Less Bugs, PleaseHarvesting the carrots this morning was like cracking concrete rather than popping up the nice sandy loam that they are ...
- Full and By Farm, July 28The buzz of activity around the farm has been intense this week. With 15+ people from 5:30 to 1 every ...
- Full and By Farm, July 21The heat and humidity have made the last few days seem even longer. The farmers and animals around here are all ...
- Full and By Farm: Only Good Things to ReportWe’ve had a great week to report on: no fallen buildings, rain-soaked hay, or animal problems. The winter squash and ...
- Motley farmers celebrate the landClipped from: www.northcountrypublicradio.org (share this clip) Did you miss the Greenhorns roundup last month? Listen to the NCPR story to hear what ...
- Full and By Farm, July 7, 2011Soaked in sweat from flipping the compost pile this hot and humid Monday, Tyler announced that July was officially here. ...
- Full and By Farm, June 30, 2011If there’s one thing I’ve learned in farming it’s to always be grateful. Things come and go on farms with ...
- Full and By Farm, June 23, 2011We took advantage of the beautifully sunny weather spell to make hay. We cut about 22 acres starting last week, ...
- Haying with Draft Horses at Full and By FarmMeet Sara Kurak and James Graves of Full and By Farm. We pick up our farm share every Thursday evening, ...