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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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All the Pumpkins You Can Carry, a Big Pepper Sale, and Photos From Y’all.
FIVE DAYS TIL HALLOWEEN and here’s how the pumpkin thing is gonna go down — all the pumpkins you can carry for $12! You must pick them in the pumpkin patch… …and carry them by yourself — no tote bags, … Continue reading
True Stories from the Farmily, and a Word About Pumpkins.
ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a boy called Brussels Sprout — Brussel for short. He was a farmer’s nephew, and had a shaky start in life: tubes in his ears, a patch on one eye, and allergies to every … Continue reading
Autumn Orchard, Rustling Corn.
A blustery fall day in the Finger Lakes. A creepy stroll through the corn. Spying on the apples. So scary at night! Eeeeeeee!
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Picking Report, Party Pictures, and Feedback for the Farm.
AN ORPHANED ASSISTANT PIG-KEEPER became hero and champion of the realm. That was in The Chronicles of Prydain. No such luck for the pigherds of Ithaca — they were vanquished without mercy by dark-hearted apple farmers. More on our top … Continue reading
Saturday’s Party is RAIN OR SHINE!
IT IS DRIZZLING NOW and Saturday will be cool and wet. But thanks to you all we’ve had a marvelous year at Indian Creek, and we’re in the mood to celebrate no matter what. It’s a sorry dog that won’t … Continue reading
Saturday is Apocalypse for Pigherds; Remember to BYOB, BYOF, BYORG.
TELL THE TRUTH and shame the devil. That’s what Mother always says. Let’s make Mom proud by telling the hard truth about pig farmers: they will meet their doom at 6 PM on Saturday. Tug of war versus apple farmers. … Continue reading
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