Blog Posts
The winding down of the growing season always comes with a little twinge of sadness—and a big sigh of relief. It’s a lot of work keeping our gardens, yards, meadows, trees and all their micro-ecosystems healthy! This time of year gives us the pause we need to regroup, recoup and reflect on all we have to […]
We’ve been having so much fun setting up and having classes in the Chancellor Livingston elementary school garden! As you can see, our gardeners are stellar.
We held our fourth Edible Gardens Tour this past weekend, expanding on the idea of edible (to whom??) and adding gardens with native, pollinator-friendly plants.
Ask a Gardener: A Food Grower’s Roundtable was enlightening once more this year with another great panel! If you want some pre-planting inspiration…
We combined two of our favorite winter get-togethers this year, the seed swap and winter sowing, at the Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff. We had a great turnout!
Our gardens are down, the weather is finally committing to fall and Thanksgiving’s just a week away—what better time to say how much we appreciate all of you?
Green Owl Farm’s Suzanne Kelly grows specialty crops, including saffron, lufffa and turmeric, and oversees Rhinebeck’s Natural Burial Ground
If you’ve ever grown plants from seed, you know how rewarding it is to watch a tiny bit of matter turn into melons and dill, flowers and zucchini. Growing from seeds you’ve saved takes that sense of wonder to another realm.
Those of you with edible gardens know that July tends to be a month of abundance. Consider sharing the bounty with the food pantries.
Native plants and pollinators have co-evolved for generations, perfecting an eco-dance of interdependence and resilence.