Want the news from Essex Farm? Hear the update from Kristin Kimball below: "Mark went to an auction last weekend and came home with an I&J two-horse cultivator, the newest model we’ve ever owned. It has a padded seat (!) for the driver and rubber wheels and heavy metal … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: New Equipment & Trigger the Pony
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Essex Farm to Host “Celebratory Spring” Farm Tour
Essex Farm is hosting a Celebrate Spring farm tour on Saturday, May 23rd. The tour leaves from the barnyard at 10am and will cover the vegetable fields, pasture, and livestock areas. "Spring is a wonderful time of year to see a highly diversified farm running at full tilt," says … [Read more...] about Essex Farm to Host “Celebratory Spring” Farm Tour
Essex Farm: Readying the Fields
Here’s the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm in Essex, New York: "The week was suffused with the urgency that always comes with the first dry weather of spring. The opportunity to be in the field must not be squandered. The light! It’s coming up fast and its … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Readying the Fields
Essex Farm: Planting
Here’s the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm in Essex, New York: "The first transplants are out of the greenhouse and in the ground now. Lettuce, chard, onions, scallions, shallots. Those rows look like someone waved a Technicolor wand over a sepia-toned world. … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Planting
Essex Farm: Belief in Spring
"The year is young and fickle and changes her clothes three times a day. Sun, then clouds. Ice, then heat. But her layers of brown are steadily giving way to fresh shades of green. The garlic is up and there are new shoots of sorrel and nettle, and the chives are tall and … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Belief in Spring