
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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreEvergreen 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...
Read moreSummer 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...
Read moreHe stands stone still in the mirror of the pond, focusing beyond and beneath his majestic reflection below. Small flocks of single leafed duckwee...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreThis 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...
Read moreWhen 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 ...
Read moreWe had some pretty heavy rains at the Currant Farm last week which the new currant berries loved. They’re still green but beginning to plump up ni...
Read more200 Years of Optimism As I was surveying today’s plantings in the field a short while ago, I was struck with a familiar feeling. A feeling I...
Read moreThere are two defined species of the Canada goose and many subspecies. There’s a group that spend the winter around these parts and travel only as...
Read moreElephantine Branches I last visited this Methuselah on a warm summer day a couple of years ago. I remember being struck with an almost tangi...
Read moreThe Farm at Night It got me to thinking about how much I love to venture into the woods on the Currant Farm at night. When there’s snow on t...
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