Evergreen Wreaths and Holiday Decorations at Our Stand

We make our own wreaths from native materials gathered here at the farm.

Visitors to our stand, and at the Farmers Market in New Haven, can now buy fresh wreaths, made at the farm from a wide variety of materials gathered on the property.   

Reflects the Richness of the Shoreline

Indian Summer

 

We certainly have had an extraordinary Indian Summer this first week of November - killing frost happened a week before.

Time, Measured With Leaves

January

 Sometimes time is measured with stop watches, or clocks.  Sometimes by the position of the sun.  And sometimes around the farm, time is just measured with leaves.

End of the 2020 CSA Season

 

A message of gratitude from a CSA member - 

End of Summer colors

 

Grover Delaney and Early Moonbeam - watermelons of the season

Chas and Elly Barberry Hill Farm Reception

 An August moon shines brightly over the newlywed eve for Chas and Elly - Congratulations to this amazing couple - wishing you the magic of this day always!

August morning

 

Midsummer Farm

French Filet Beans

Our favorite French Filet beans are in! Although it has been a long wait this season, we are finally picking buckets of the most tender "green bean" you have ever eaten. These are Masai French Filet beans, or as the French call them Haricot Vert.

These beans are such the favorite of ours...some beans never make it to the bucket, straight from plant to mouth

Quinlan and Katharina stay focused on their task

View from the Farm Stand

For many, a highlight of summer is just how fresh everything is.

View from the Field

Blueberries are in Season

Our blueberries are finally in season.  They are perfect in recipes or just straight out of a bowl.

Seen on the back of "Big Blue", our retired snow plow truck

Honey Extraction and Baklava

The honey bees have never been busier than this year and to our surprise, we had 8 supers to extract from in no time at all providing us with nearly 300 pounds of honey with our first extraction.

Our entomologist friend and resident apiarist, Brent, prepares to gather the supers

Honeycomb 

We eat the honeycomb too - there are many nutritional values to this delicious treat

Filling the honey jars for sale at our farmstand

Many delicious ways to use honey - here, Katharina and Quinlan prepare Baklava

So many paths to enjoyment

Early morning

Look to this day...

“Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty... For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.  But today well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”  - Kalidasa (sanskrit)