I hope that you and your family are well and safe during this incredibly difficult time. My name is Kristin Kimball, I am an author and co-owner of a 1,100-acre sustainable, diversified farm in the Adirondack Champlain Valley. It's clear that people are more eager now than … [Read more...] about Let’s Help Local Food Systems Come Out Stronger
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Champlain Valley to Celebrate the New Book by Essex Farm’s Kristin Kimball, GOOD HUSBANDRY on Nov. 17
The Whallonsburg Grange will be hosting a very special community celebration to welcome the new book by local farmer and author Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry: Growing Food, Love, and Family on Essex Farm. The event will take place at the Grange on Sunday, November 17 at 4:00pm … [Read more...] about Champlain Valley to Celebrate the New Book by Essex Farm’s Kristin Kimball, GOOD HUSBANDRY on Nov. 17
Essex Farm: Livestock Guardians
Here’s the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm in Essex, New York: "We hired the three Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs I mentioned in last week’s note. So far, so awesome. When breeding and instinct and training line up with a job that needs to be done, you can … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Livestock Guardians
Essex Farm: Bread-Baking
Mark has been on a bread-baking tear the last couple of weeks. He recently read Michael Pollan’s Cooked, and has been working on Pollan’s no-knead 100% whole wheat sourdough loaves. It’s not an easy feat, but these loaves have been really good and getting even better. Pollan … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Bread-Baking
Essex Farm: Transfigured
Here’s the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm: The seasons of the year can be read as an equation that comes out even in the end. Addition and subtraction. Positive and negative. Sun and shadow. Objects and their absence. We farm in the north country. Here, summer is … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Transfigured