As we look to a new decade we reflect on 2019, we share this special collection of photos – many of them taken by staff — that highlight the various aspects of the farmstead. Click here to view the album.
Continue readingThe Year in Photos
Check out our Fall 2019 newsletter
Farming a Wild Field • A New Beginning • Greenhouse Production • Colorado Potato Beetle • Staff Video Portraits • Allium Leafminer • Native Meadow Trial • Farmer’s Corner and more
Continue readingA Tapestry of Corn
The Hudson Valley Farm Hub’s grain corn trial started last spring when eight varieties of corn were planted as a celebration of cultural heritage and an exploration into growing field corn for human consumption.
Continue readingThe Farmer’s Corner: Fall 2019
“One of my favorite flowers happens to be the sunflower. The colors, different sizes of their heads and height of plant speak for themselves. I first became acquainted with these beautiful flowers in my senior year in high school while taking a family vacation out west. My family drove through Kansas where there were entire fields of sunflowers– their heads followed the sun, watching the day evolve.
Continue readingGreenhouse Production Ramps Up / Aumenta la producción de invernadero
Beds of emerald colored kale and collard greens planted outside, shimmer under a late morning sun. Nearby, production staff plant trays of spinach inside hoop houses. It is early autumn at the Hudson Valley Farm Hub and winter production is ramping up.
Continue readingLearning about native meadows
It was early evening at the Hudson Valley Farm Hub and Barbara Hughey, a landscape designer, came to the farm prepared with a notebook and pencil. Hughey, an entrepreneur who runs “Land Stewardship Design” out of her home in Germantown, came in learning mode.
Continue readingA New Beginning
The clang of pots, the scent of freshly steamed vegetables, sounds of cauliflower being chopped on cutting boards, and the light chatter of volunteers as they bag broccoli florets, all fill the Hudson Valley Farm Hub’s former farm stand on Route 209 in Hurley. This autumn the familiar red building along the state highway celebrates a new beginning. In September, the Farm to Food Pantry Collaborative began using the facility as a base for processing food that is being donated locally.
Continue readingIn Brief: The latest at the Farm Hub
Growing With the Grain screens • Language Justice presents at NESAWG • Cultural heritage and cooking with chicken • Highlighting corn at Kingston City School District • Seed Sanctuary blossoms • Farm to school • Exploring herbs • Learning about mushrooms
Continue readingFarming a Wild Field / El cultivo de un campo salvaje
This past spring, on a windy day in March, the field crops team and I drove out to a field where there was a soybean crop. The snow had just left, and the ground was still too soft to leave the farm road. We needed to make a plan. The flattened beans were a remarkable color of silvery grey: the stems and branches like messy strands of hair on the ground. The field had looked promising all year until the fall when relentless rain knocked the soybeans down and they rotted on the ground.
Continue readingTackling the Colorado Potato Beetle
Elson Shields, a Cornell entomologist, along with his colleagues Teresa Rusinek and Chuck Bornt, arrived at the Hudson Valley Farm Hub at high noon with an ice chest. They had packed lunch. They also brought with them a bevy of plastic containers filled with Colorado potato beetles, the subject of their research and a growing threat to potato production (or you could use potato growing here).
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