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One problem we faced with our new patio: an enormous boulder in the center. We thought about building it into the design. (Maybe a water feature?) But in the end, we decided it was right smack dab in the middle […]
Why yes, of course we’re adding more onto the patio project, which is already way over schedule. This is called “Gregory’s Portico,” and is meant to relieve the rotting problem where the dirt meets the wood at the foot of […]
We have completed one full part of the patio project. Whoo-hoo! It’s so nice to walk on brick now, rather than dirt and mulch. Go Greg!
We have one part of the patio finished: one of the brick walks between the garden beds in the front yard. Hurrah! Here’s a look at Greg’s excellent craftsmanship. I’m so proud.
Here’s what we’re looking at when it comes to our materials. Multicolored brick and Belgian block: Looks heavy.
I’m sorry I missed capturing video or even photos of this, but Greg rented a jackhammer to try to work down that enormous boulder in the center of our patio. Alas, after 4 hours, it’s still not below the sand line […]
The Bobcat has arrived. Yes, Greg is moving all that dirt into a dumpster. Here he is in action: And here’s the dumpster that received all the dirt. What a project this has turned out to be!
Greg we have dug 60,000 pounds — or 30 tons, if you like — of dirt out of our back yard. It’s all in our driveway at the moment. Once the pit was dug, we also realized that the ground in […]
It looks like the sky is on fire at the farm right now. Too bad about those electrical wires. Though I guess Hopper wouldn’t have said so.
We had a bumper crop of currants this year. Gorgeous!
Framing is coming along. This is starting to take a long time, though. Right, Sam?
The bushes in the front fields are starting to bear fruit. Look at this haul! We ate them on cereal, by the handful and in a terrific salad by, yes, you guessed it: Mindy Fox. Blueberries, feta and mint with […]
A big rainstorm shows us where our pitch is at the moment. Hmmm.
Update on the patio. Most of the pit is dug out. Greg is starting to lay the leveling frame in the pit. Â
As of June 16: A horrific mess. Let this pass, soon, please.
Here’s where we are on June 12. Progress, I guess!
We started by moving the bluestone. Then we just started digging.
The back tree, the little dwarf Northstar, produced quite a bit this year. And early, too. A few more pics, after the jump.
The cherries came early this year. We probably could have picked some of them the first of June, even! Here’s a look on the 6th: And here’s a little sour cherry, too!
A couple years back, we lost power to the garage. Turns out, the line had corroded. Time to put in a new one. In order to do so, we got the biggest piece of machinery yet seen at the farm: […]
Strawberries grown just outside the fields of Sour Cherry Farm on Stump Lane: Stump Lane is really Tasha and Shannon’s place; we call it that because between our house and theirs, we have, so far, three stumps. The mulberry tree; […]
We happened to be out doing errands when a wallop of a storm hit the farm on Memorial Day weekend. We got about 2 inches in 20 minutes. That’s a hell of a lot of rain. Tasha took this video […]
The peonies were a whole week early this year, and, as always seems to happen, just as they were blooming, a big storm was on its way. So I picked what I could and brought them into the house. They’re […]
I’m told we will be building a patio. We have the estimate in hand, and have marked out our borders with string. We moved the furniture around a bit to see how it would fit. So here are our “before” […]
Thanks to a warm spring, we’re about a week ahead on the crops this year. And the Pink Jasmine, which SCF fans may remember from such posts as “Welcome to the Farm, Lingonberries and Currants,” has never looked better. And […]
A look around the fields, folks. Yes, we seem to have come out of winter hibernation all right! Here’s a pretty one of my newly planted Nepeta.
I guess people rushed the doors when the Nyack Garden Club’s plant sale opened at 10 a.m. We got there a little later, but we still found some good stuff, including Nigella (Love in a Mist), Nepeta (catmint), tomatoes, basil […]
We went with red this year, y’all. Reminds me of the red geraniums we used to have on the deck back at Burd Street. Hope they stay blooming like this all summer long!
We planted two lilacs in fall 2010, but we didn’t see any blooms in 2011. Looks like this is our year!
A little fun time in the later afternoon. A couple more photos of Sam, and the Farm, after the jump.
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
