Since detected in 2015 in the northeast region, the Allium Leafminer has posed considerable challenges to onion and garlic growers. By laying eggs inside leaf tissue, the pest leaves the plant vulnerable to damage, laying its claim with the oviposition mark, a trail of white dots where female insects have deposited their eggs.
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October and the sunflowers continue to spring through the earth, their faces tilted to the sky. During the 2019 growing season, the Farm Hub planted ten different varieties included Mammoth Gray Stripe, Mammoth, Hopi Black Dye, Velvet Queen, Evening Sun, Autumn Beauty, Lemon Queen, Goldy Double, Zohar and the Teddy Bear.
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Now into its fourth season, the Native American Seed Sanctuary at the Farm Hub continues to thrive. The “three sisters” mix of corn, beans, and squash encompasses 18 varieties of beans, nine varieties of corn and two types of squash.
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Strips of butternut squash grow before a backdrop of flowers. With the Native Meadow Trial in its third year, this is the first time that crops have been planted next to the meadows. Goals of the experiment include seeing if the meadow seed mixes will increase beneficial insect populations, and trying to observe potential impacts on crops.
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Reducing Tillage • Harvesting Mushrooms • Kingston High School • Farmscape Ecology • Food and Culture • Grains Corn Trial • Winslow Homer • Farmer’s Corner • Blueberry Gleaning
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From vegetable production and donations to training beginning farmers, the Hudson Valley Farm Hub has moved into new ways of farming and into education and research, since the NoVo Foundation purchased the farm from Gill Farm in 2013. Initiatives include crop diversification and farming in organic practices, a focus on farmscape ecology, language justice and seed saving through the Native […]
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Connecting with the Art of Winslow Homer The Hudson Valley has long attracted artists from New York City seeking inspiration from the region’s mountains and forests, rivers and waterfalls, sunsets, farmscapes, and vernacular architecture, as well as from the people who have lived here. Most famously, the 19th Century Hudson River School painters’ romantic relationship with the region has been […]
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SUMMER 2019: ROSA VILLEGAS, GREENHOUSE ASSISTANT (Spanish translation to follow/traducción en español abajo) “I started working in the greenhouses in 1998 (when the farm was under different ownership). Under the Farm Hub I began working on the vegetable team and continued in the greenhouses. In 2016, I became the greenhouse assistant. We start here in the greenhouses in the middle of March […]
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(Spanish translation to follow/traducción en español abajo) Of all vegetable crops, corn has long been the one most associated with the Hurley Flats. Sweet corn, enjoyed fresh in summer and once produced across hundreds of acres by the Gill Farms, remains a staple of the Farm Hub’s annual vegetable production and is now grown using organic methods. The majority of the corn […]
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This year’s Native Meadow Twilight meeting will be held on Sept. 17 from 4:30pm-7:00pm at the Farm Hub. The event will feature Claudia Knab-Vispo and Conrad Vispo from Hawthorne Valley’s Farmscape Ecology Program, and Anne Bloomfield, the Farm Hub’s farmscape ecology coordinator. The team will describe how the plant composition in the meadows continues to evolve and share their insights […]
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