Starting Lily’s Farm: Changing Tacks
Sometimes, to get where you’re going, you have to follow the wind.
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The Tide Waits for No Man: Get Your Shellfishing on Right Now
View this post on Instagram Came across this image from Johnathan Smith's Shinnecock Oyster Farm and was reminded that it's time to renew my…
Eat More Long Island Oysters!
A visit from a congressman reminds oyster farming is bipartisan. And needs workers!
From Local Heroes to Global Heroes: Dock to Dish Suspends Montauk Program to Set Sights (Temporarily) on Costa Rica
Don’t eat your feelings in fishburgers just yet. Dock to Dish isn’t saying goodbye to the East End—just “see you later.”
YOUNG FARMER Q&A: Abra Morawiec of Feisty Acres
The game farmer’s biggest a ha moment came when she realized there is a retail market for her crop.
Starting Lily’s Farm: Like a Boss
When it’s your own farm, you’re the only one to blame, or congratulate.
Starting Lily’s Farm: Each One Teach One
The prospect of a volunteer prompts Lily to think back on how she got here.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: Plow Deep and Straight and Don’t Cut Corners
The title comes from Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” speech. It’s this line: “It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and rake and disc and plow and plant…”
Starting Lily’s Farm: The Promise of Perennials
Every spring, doubt gives way to renewal.
FARMGIRL ANGST: Soil Farmer Talks to Water Farmer
Karen Rivara, of the Shellfisher Preserve, on breeding oysters to Marvin Gaye and why farmers complain.
Diary of an Organic Farm Apprentice: The Scent of Spring
No longer an apprentice, Cristina starts a new job.
Starting Lily’s Farm: Swapping Seeds
I like weird seeds/plants; I cannot lie.
