Second Solstice
A lot has happened in the six months since we posted about the winter solstice. At the time New York was tucked under a thick blanket of snow and today it was so hot that you could see wavy heat radiating off of the sidewalk. Back then we didn’t even have a lease, and now [...]
Thoughts on the solstice and a whole lot of snow
Today is the winter solstice, and a snowy one at that. Brooklyn is blanketed in about 10″ of powder, the kind that finds apartment dwellers staying inside and huddling around whistling radiators. You might think this weather would bum out an urban farmer, remind her of how long it’ll be before the last frost and [...]
Rooftop Livestock
This Thanksgiving I went upstate for a traditional family feast at my uncle’s farm. He lives outside of Cooperstown on several dozen acres complete with hay fields and pasture and woods and a creek. I always assumed that some day I would move out to the country and buy a farm like his to satisfy [...]
