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Kildeer Drama Queen Feigns a Broken Wing.
A kildeer puts on a bit of theatre for the field crew. Her eggs are laid in perfect camouflage between the nursery rows. As we approach the nesting spot, Mother Kildeer feigns a broken wing to draw us—the “predators”—toward herself … Continue reading
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Please Come Smell the Farm at Your Earliest Convenience.
PEOPLE OF THE CREEK, hello and happy spring. Our Chief Croperating Officer says it is time to talk about buds and blossoms. For the next few days, you will find thousands of fruit trees here bursting with flower power. A … Continue reading
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This Apple Product Will Crush Your iPad So Bad.
WELCOME, FRUIT FANS, to the year 2013. We live in confusing times: Linsanity and Honey Boo Boo, a fiscal cliff and a bogus apocalypse. How can we clear our heads? Perhaps a picture-puzzle will help, one that reveals a timeless … Continue reading
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Ithaca is Georgics: The Year in Pictures.
THE ROMAN POET VIRGIL served Dante well, escorting him safely through Hell and Purgatory, only to be dumped for the hottie Beatrice at the gates of Paradise. In those days, pagans weren’t allowed in Heaven, so Virgil was sh-t out … Continue reading
Last Weekend at the Farm Stand.
FANS OF THE FARM, we hope you are enjoying friends, family, and food. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for our best season ever at Indian Creek. Just a quick reminder that the farm stand is open today and Sunday on … Continue reading
Last Day for Donuts, and a Quickie on the Crops.
IF YOU HAVEN’T SKIPPED TOWN for the holidays, come kick around the farm this weekend. The stand will be open 12 to 5 both days; the weather will be dry and warmish. Now for the 15-second rundown… Us fellers are … Continue reading
Planting 500 Honeycrisp Trees with a Homemade Planter and a Little Farmer Dance at the End.
Our ramshackle rig worked well enough. We planted 500 trees lickety-split that day. The blade cuts a trench in the newly plowed soil, while the plant man (with big beard and Yankees hat) sticks the baby trees in the ground. … Continue reading
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Jalapeño Ice Cubes, Flying Saucer Videos, and More Chickens.
IT IS BETTER TO LIGHT ONE CANDLE than to curse the darkness. So instead of b-tching about the approach of winter, and the switch to Daylight Wasting Time, we’re lighting a few mental candles — ideas for November produce. It’s … Continue reading
All the Presidents You Can Carry, and Pumpkins for the Pigs.
YOU MIGHT SAY THE FARM is the Other Hamptons: a weekend escape for so many of our friends from New York City. On a typical summer day, and late into the fall, you can find lawyers and bankers — alongside … Continue reading
Digging 35,000 Fruit Trees with a Homemade Digging Rig.
Every fall we dig up fruit trees that are going to be shipped around the nation to professional orchardists and backyard growers. We still do a lot of the work by hand—gathering, bundling, lifting, cataloguing, and storing. But we take … Continue reading
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