Lovin' Mama Farm

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Lovin' Mama Farm We are a small family farm cultivating about two acres of mixed fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

We grow with methods using the utmost care for the earth and emphasize polyculture in our fields.

Fall produce on display! The coziest time to cook. My currently obsession is caramelized fennel / cipollini onions and...
10/17/2026

Fall produce on display! The coziest time to cook. My currently obsession is caramelized fennel / cipollini onions and pickled purple daikon.

On our tables this weekend:

Arugula
Baby Lettuce
Bok Choy
Beets, red, gold, chiogga
Carrots
Cipollini Onions
Celery
Collards
Curly Kale
Dino Kale
Dried herbs
Dried flowers
Fennel
Frisée
Garlic
Garlic braids
Green leaf lettuce
Heirloom tomatoes
Hot peppers
Leeks
Mesclun (stir fry/salad) Mix
Mini romaine
Napa cabbage, green and purple
Purple daikon radish
Onions, red and gold
Pickled peppers
Radicchio
Rainbow Chard
Red Radish
Rosemary plants
Salsa
Shallot
Tatsoi
Tomato jam
Watermelon radish

EVERYTHING on our tables is Certified Real Organic - meaning legit organic and focused on soil health, habitat for pollinators and native plants/animals, and a safe and living wage workplace.

10/15/2026

Garlic braids!

Thank goodness the strawflower can handle a frost.

Making dozens of these today- we will have them available at markets this weekend.

Be still my beating heart! I can’t believe the transformation in here. There’s still a good bit of finish work, need t...
10/14/2026

Be still my beating heart! I can’t believe the transformation in here.

There’s still a good bit of finish work, need to replace a few windows, build the ramp and patio, but we are getting so close to opening our doors to downtown Amsterdam.

Meanwhile, we’re still farming full time, including 6 markets every weekend.

We cannot wait to start sharing our delicious food and coffee with you all in the heart of our dear city.

I will be sure to keep sharing updates when we are certain of opening dates.

We cannot wait to bring health and joy to downtown Amsterdam!

Troy market set up!Happy October. End of summer produce meets fall. The last of the cherry tomatoes! We might get a f...
10/03/2026

Troy market set up!

Happy October. End of summer produce meets fall. The last of the cherry tomatoes!

We might get a frost next week, so fresh flowers are in their final weeks too.

Plus- the fall greens (Arugula! Dino kale! Tatsoi!) are kicking into high gear, and Napa cabbage is making a strong showing.

Also, leeks, scallions, cipollini onions, hardneck garlic, celery, carrots, beets, purple daikon, and microgreens. And a lot of other stuff too. Everything certified Real Organic. Grown with love.

See you at market!

09/29/2026

Book launch day!!! What a long process this has been. I’m so happy and humbled to share this with the world. I wrote this book for farmers, aspiring farmers, and folks who are in the dreaming phase. Microgreens don’t require land, so you can start growing right in your apartment.

May this book uplift growers no matter what stage they are in their journey. May this book inspire a new generation of farmers with another tool in their belt of knowledge for building and sustaining a successful farm business.

Cafe and Store Update!The outside of the building is painted, the mural is complete, the indoor is painted, and the floo...
09/28/2026

Cafe and Store Update!

The outside of the building is painted, the mural is complete, the indoor is painted, and the floor got a final coat of epoxy finish! We are getting closer and closer everyday.

Now we need to finish the windows, pour and fence the patio, and add the entrance ramp. Then moving in, setting up the espresso machine, hiring a team, and we’re in business!

We’re so excited to open our doors and start serving up some delicious, organic food from the farm and next level coffee from touchy coffee.

Scroll through to see some before photos. It’s hard to tell the transformation that’s been taking place- you’ll have to see for yourself once we open!!

Weekly consistency leads to expertise. Commitment and repetition - doing the work - inevitably lead to success.We plant...
09/26/2026

Weekly consistency leads to expertise. Commitment and repetition - doing the work - inevitably lead to success.

We plant and harvest microgreens and shoots 50 weeks of the year on our small farm, and it has led to reliable, year round cash flow to support the economic health of our farm. There’s also something grounding and comforting about the weekly rhythm of planting and harvesting.

In 100 square feet of space in our propagation house we produce on average $1300 per week in sales. And our customers are absolutely wild for our microgreens - they keep coming week after week for their nutrient dense fix.

I’m so passionate about microgreens as an essential crop enterprise for market farmers that I wrote a book. The first farming book to focus 100% on microgreens and shoots - from seed to sale. Also one of the few books in market farming (vegetable) space written by a woman.

This book is also written for beginning farmers and gardeners in the dreaming phase. Microgreens are kind of a gateway, a foot in the door, to producing your own food. You don’t need land to get started - you can grow in your apartment or basement. I have an entire chapter dedicated to indoor growing that will show you how to set up a grow space in your house. If you are city bound but dreaming of growing your own food, microgreens and shoots are the perfect crop.

The book comes out on Tuesday! You can prebuy at the link below or in my profile.

Happy growing!

Microgreens and Shoots - How to Select, Grow, Harvest, and Package Nutrient-Dense Greens for Profit

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827848/microgreens-and-shoots-by-corinne-hansch/

I wrote this sometime in August….It’s been another wild, long day of somewhat masochistic work. After pulling back to b...
09/22/2026

I wrote this sometime in August….

It’s been another wild, long day of somewhat masochistic work. After pulling back to back to back 12 hour days, Friday was a 14 hour day, followed by 4.5 hours of sleep, then up at 3am to finish wrapping all the flowers, basketing all the peppers, splitting the tomatoes and peppers, and then packing the van for three markets (Matthew and Oak left at 4am for the fourth market downstate).

We (me and two of my kids ages 14 and 20) show up at Troy market, our biggest market with a 4 canopy stand, a few minutes late, and find that Lee broke his toe that morning. Angel that he is - he comes to market and helps us set up, schlepping a massive amount of heavy flower buckets and produce. After about 2 hours of work - he can barely stand and I send him home. 14 year old doesn’t really work market - she’s a kid! She doesn’t want to talk with strangers! But she’s great at restocking, and helps a bit here and there. Meanwhile, Lily and I are swamped with a non stop line and I run out every ½ hour or so to try and restock.

I missed a few bags of baby lettuce and cilantro that I found at 1:30 pm on the backside of the stand, but otherwise, we essentially sold out. (thank you Troy community for showing up so strong every week!!) Somehow, Lily and I did what normally takes 3 people to accomplish.

It takes us an hour+ to pack up our massive stand. We’ve moved thousands of pounds of produce and flower buckets. We drive home. Unpack the truck. Say hi to the dogs. Water the greenhouse and unstack the microgreens. Tally the sales from 4 markets. Help Matthew and Oak when they get back from their 14 hour market day. Drink some iced lemon water. Head back out to the fields because we have to pick heirlooms and sweet peppers and sunflowers. Finally call it a day at 7pm - a full 16 hour day, after a 50 hour week. And we have to get up and run two markets tomorrow.

Matthew and I are so hardened to it at this point. This is our 16th year as market farmers - 16 years of working weekends, of barely sleeping Friday nights, working ourselves to the bone all summer long.

Part of me knows this in an unhealthy work load. Yet somehow, after a 16 hour day, I feel energized?? I actually love seeing my Real Organic produce on display like an art installation. I love working with a crew of hard working farmers. I love that my adult kids find employment on the farm. I love the environmental impact on the land we are stewarding. I love the public health impact that our organic food has on the community. I love interacting with customers who get it.

I take full responsibility for choosing this life. And I love it.

My heart is blown wide open after a full weekend at The Real Organic Conference. I’m so blessed to live only an hour aw...
09/21/2026

My heart is blown wide open after a full weekend at The Real Organic Conference. I’m so blessed to live only an hour away from this event, held at the biodynamic certified Churchtown Dairy owned by Abbey Rockefeller in Hudson NY.

I’ve been Real Organic certified since 2021, and I believe so much in this project that I just joined the board of directors. Real Organic is on a mission to not only uphold the National Organic Standard, but is on the cutting edge of the national conversation around organic farming.

There was an intellectual mix of scientists, writers, politicians, and, of course, Real Organic farmers giving TED talk style presentations. We had Tyrone Hayes who has specialized in studying the effects of atrazine in frogs, a debate about “landsparing” vs. “landsharing” between an agroecologist from UC Berkeley and a NY Times writer, and two members of Congress - Republican Thomas Massey and Democrat Chellie Pingree - shared the stage to talk about their fight to prevent a liability shield for Bayer/Monsanto and their carcinogenic herbicide glyphosate.

The most inspiring presentations were certainly from our Real Organic Farmers. Paul Muller from Full Belly farm spoke about how organic farmers like us are the lighthouse for not just the eaters seeking poison free food, but for the chemical farmers who find themselves on a sinking ship. Real Organic farms are true community havens, not just for pollinators, microbes, and clean water, but as living models that can prove to the world that we can efficiently produce massive amounts of food in harmony with the Earth and without harm to our farmworkers, children, and vulnerable populations.

I’m definitely a different person after this weekend. Sitting at the table with inspiring farmers, activists, scientists, and politicians, I’m reminded of how powerful I am - how powerful all of us are. It’s up to us to write the letters and make the phone calls to our representatives. Up to us to host the politicians, the scientists, the students, and the chemical (conventional) farmers on our gorgeous, Real Organic farms to show them another way is possible.

09/08/2026

Update on the farm store and cafe in downtown Amsterdam!

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240A Cranes Hollow Road
Amsterdam, NY
12010

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+15189286880

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