Welcome, Verena!
We are very excited that amazing, talented farmer (and so much more!) Verena Wieloch is now part of the Growing Heart family. This year the CSA is going to be magical. We’re going to be planting a little bit of everything, plus flowers! Our CSA members are going to get so spoiled this year ; […]
Extreme Tree Pruning
Today we had permaculture educator and designer Andrew Faust out to help us “prune” some trees. We had a couple of black-rot infected, non-producing apple trees in the orchard that we are hoping will coppice. We basically cut them to stumps, and the hope is that in the spring a healthy new shoot will come […]
Growing Heart Farm
It took a year, but we finally came up with a name: Growing Heart Farm. It is a good compromise between the direction Lewis was leaning (community, feeling based names) and the direction I was going (based on physical features of the land or animals or crops on the land). We’ve transfered over most of […]
Looks like I am getting into beekeeping just in time
Check out the honey scandal! (Thanks, Dina, for the link) “Amber’s Raw Honey” is going to be the best thing you’ve ever tasted.
Passive Greenhouse
This holiday weekend i spent with family as well as reading, writing, and calculating a ton to submit a proposal for a conservation innovation grant. i did not go thru the proper channels but hoping for the best. here is the proverbial napkin.
Thanksgiving!
We have a lot to be thankful for this year! We’ve all learned so much, and fed a lot of friends along the way. This Thanksgiving we had 12 people for dinner, and a lot of the dishes we served came straight from the farm (whole leg of lamb, pumpkin/butternut soup with cabbage, kale salad […]
2011 Farmer
Position: Farmer Seeking a farmer to operate a 1+ acre mixed vegetable market garden on 41 acre farm property in Wingdale, NY – 80 miles north of NYC and 1 mile from a metro north station. Housing is provided. In 2010 we completed our first year operating a CSA and raising lambs for meat. In […]
Sheep into Meat
In the freezer, labeled by name in addition to date and cut, so we can see how the taste varies. Adam the butcher came and helped us dispatch the lambs with care and respect. It was an educational and affecting event, and I’m really glad we did it this way instead of hauling them to […]
Undoing
With each rusty earth pin pulled up, I remember the day I put them in, shiny new. Each scrap of half-degraded twine I recover from edges of beds recalls spring’s unrolling and tying fresh orange kerosine-scented definers. Pulling out poles, dismantling bean town, rolling up row cover, composting squash vines. All the undoing. Transforming the […]
