The team
Farming is a partnership with the land. As the farmer I work with the soil to grow nutrient rich vegetables and chickens to feed my community nutritious and delicious food.
The Land
Spring greens 2023
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Tomatoes in August '23, photo by Pine and Fable
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fall 2022
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August '23, photo by Pine and Fable
The farmer
Farming was the first job I ever had that made sense, it connects all life together in a cohesive system that nourishes the land, the animals, and the humans.
By working with the land to grow delicious vegetables I learn how to give back to the earth that gives us so much.
I was introduced to small scale, diverse farming in 2012 when I started working on Old Ford Farm in Gardiner, NY. In the field, I learned when the cows first get back out on the pasture in the spring their milk tastes like grass and is a golden yellow color, I learned that after the cows go through a certain part of the pasture, the chickens follow to scratch through their patties and spread the manure and eat the bugs that could potentially spread disease, I learned that after the cows and chickens pass over the pasture, the grass grows back with more vigor and a deep green color. In the garden I learned that all the vegetables I love to cook with taste a thousand times better straight off the plant, I learned that tomato leaves don't like water splashed them so you have to protect the ground beneath them, I learned that sweet potato vines look like morning glories and are a lot of work to harvest but completely worth it, I learned that you can get a stomach ache from eating too many sugar snap peas. All of my experiences on that farm taught me that it is hard work to grow the food we eat, but if done with the health of the earth and our human bodies in mind, the reward is ten fold. I worked at Old Ford Farm for 7 years total as a babysitter, seasonal worker and last as a milker, my experience on that farm shaped my future into what it is today. In 2015, between years at Old Ford I also worked on a small biodynamic farm in Crete, Greece. I gained even more farming knowledge in a completely different climate and with many different growing methods. We grew legumes under olive trees and tomatoes with little to no water, we saved seeds and shared them with the surrounding villages at a seed festival they put together every year. That year cemented into me that farming is what I need to do to be a happy person.
Farming was the first job I ever had that made sense, it connects all life together in a cohesive system that nourishes the land, the animals, and the humans.
By working with the land to grow delicious vegetables I learn how to give back to the earth that gives us so much.
I was introduced to small scale, diverse farming in 2012 when I started working on Old Ford Farm in Gardiner, NY. In the field, I learned when the cows first get back out on the pasture in the spring their milk tastes like grass and is a golden yellow color, I learned that after the cows go through a certain part of the pasture, the chickens follow to scratch through their patties and spread the manure and eat the bugs that could potentially spread disease, I learned that after the cows and chickens pass over the pasture, the grass grows back with more vigor and a deep green color. In the garden I learned that all the vegetables I love to cook with taste a thousand times better straight off the plant, I learned that tomato leaves don't like water splashed them so you have to protect the ground beneath them, I learned that sweet potato vines look like morning glories and are a lot of work to harvest but completely worth it, I learned that you can get a stomach ache from eating too many sugar snap peas. All of my experiences on that farm taught me that it is hard work to grow the food we eat, but if done with the health of the earth and our human bodies in mind, the reward is ten fold. I worked at Old Ford Farm for 7 years total as a babysitter, seasonal worker and last as a milker, my experience on that farm shaped my future into what it is today. In 2015, between years at Old Ford I also worked on a small biodynamic farm in Crete, Greece. I gained even more farming knowledge in a completely different climate and with many different growing methods. We grew legumes under olive trees and tomatoes with little to no water, we saved seeds and shared them with the surrounding villages at a seed festival they put together every year. That year cemented into me that farming is what I need to do to be a happy person.