Notes From the Currant Farm Page 2

Planting Instructions

Planting Instructions

Planting & Growing Currants Currants are an easy crop to grow in the garden, which is good because they are still quite rare in the supermarke...

A Farm Mystery Solved

The Currant Farm dates back to Circa 1794 After much research, I found out a few years ago that this wonderful farm house on The Currant Farm dates...

The Life Saving Tree

Evergreen Screen After more than two decades teaching at The New York Botanical Garden, I get questions all the time about what plants to grow aro...

Tomatoes, Dog Days, and Queen Margherita

Summer Heat and Canis Major I’m hoping the bulk of the heat and humidity of July and August is pretty much behind us here on the Currant Farm, whi...

A Summer Moment on the Currant Farm Pond

He stands stone still in the mirror of the pond, focusing beyond and beneath his majestic reflection below. Small flocks of single leafed duckwee...

Beautiful Webs of Life

The Currant Farm is teaming with all manner of flora, fungi and fauna. One doesn’t have to venture far to find animals, predator and prey, mushroo...

What’s True and What’s Not

This week heralded the first day of summer, the summer solstice. The summer solstice is the day when the sun appears to travel its longest path th...

The Church of Mushrooms

When most people think of going up into the woods to hunt for mushrooms they think of chanterelles, chicken of the woods, hen of the woods, morels ...