Treehorn Farm

Treehorn Farm Flowers, ducks, sourdough, willow, books, and events in the Hudson Valley. Woman-owned, family-managed.

May through October, open Saturdays & Sundays, 11:30am-5:00pm
220 County Route 26 | Climax, NY

Yep, we're in a town called CLIMAX!

This week's small batch bake is duckin' good (keep reading to find out why) 🦆Now taking orders for this week AND next we...
03/23/2026

This week's small batch bake is duckin' good (keep reading to find out why) 🦆

Now taking orders for this week AND next week. Please note we've been selling out every week (this week we've already nearly reached capacity).

* 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐌 * 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬 (𝟒-𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤) — $18. Real NY maple syrup, roasted pecans, a touch of cinnamon, and duck eggs laid right here on our farm in Climax, NY. Or, as the eggs like to say: "I got laid in Climax.™" We'll just leave it at that.

𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 — $12. Long bulk ferment, long cold proof. The real deal.

"𝐈 𝐆𝐨𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐱"™ 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐄𝐠𝐠𝐬 — $8/half dozen. Pick up on the farm or now available at Johnk. Same eggs that go into the rolls. They're duckin' awesome. (Duck eggs produce superior results to chicken eggs in baked goods, adding a richer flavor, more nutrition, and a better rise!)

We've been trialing our rolls all winter, and we think you're going to love them. A note on our process: We have only two baked items right now, and we plan to offer them every week. Next week we're adding a third. We'll keep our regular lineup small, with special items around holidays.

We bake under NY cottage food laws, which means absolutely no cheese, fresh fruit or vegetables, or raw nuts baked in. It's made us wayyy more creative with what we can do. Turns out real maple syrup, dried fruit, roasted nuts, and duck eggs laid on our farm go a long way. So dang good.

Until our stand is finished and the shop is open for the season, pickup is Thursday 4–6pm — reach out if another time works and we'll figure it out. Payment via cash or Venmo. (But the option to order via our website is coming soon...)

Please text 917-216-4572 or email [email protected]. (To make things easier, starting next week, we'll have an online option via our website!)

Thanks!

Melissa & Mark

Wow… We’re already booked for sourdough loaf orders for this week! (Although we could probably squeeze in one or two mor...
03/16/2026

Wow… We’re already booked for sourdough loaf orders for this week! (Although we could probably squeeze in one or two more if you let us know in the next few hours…)

We’re thinking of adding a few items to our weekly baking list — including sourdough cinnamon rolls with a maple pecan glaze. Downing just one is an indulgence… any more than that would probably require a gym membership. But we love them. We’d prolly offer them in a 2-pack. (Hellooooo, YMCA!)

What do you think — should we add them to our baking list for the coming weeks?





01/28/2026

We’ve added a few new varieties of violas and pansies to our collection this year. Our Tiny Treehorn (code name: "TT" ) planted most of them, so from this day forth, ALL of them will be known as Baby’s Flowers.

In addition to offering them in our CSAs and edible flower boxes, we are planting some amazing hanging edible gardens this year — one filled with edible flowers, the other an Italian salad.








Nighttime chores involves a hike to feed the ducks, bring them fresh water, and add a new, fluffy layer of pine chips to...
01/27/2026

Nighttime chores involves a hike to feed the ducks, bring them fresh water, and add a new, fluffy layer of pine chips to their coop. We stay to chat for a few minutes — how are you, ladies? Quack, quack! Then it’s another path to check on the hoop house. Watering the pansies, violas, and sweet peas. Watching the tiny leaves unfurl. A little more shoveling. Then back to the indoor planting and propagation house and finally our sweet side porch to check on the progress of another succession of ranunculus and anenomes.

Finally, now, a little rest. Many books with the baby, reading in a different voice, of course, for each character.

There’s something lovely about winter processes. Something predictable, even when there’s a winter storm. The paths through the snow, like veins, each leading to another essential organ of our farm. ❤️






In addition to our constant focus on de-ICEing, our biggest job on the farm right now involves clearing paths through th...
01/26/2026

In addition to our constant focus on de-ICEing, our biggest job on the farm right now involves clearing paths through the snow, including around our duck house (not shown) and high hoop tunnel (too much snow could cause a lot of damage).

Happy snow day! Oh…. And if you haven’t already, reach out about our early spring CSA options — our sweet peas, ranunculus, anemones, and snapdragons are coming along beautifully!






One of our ladies laid a “fairy egg,” a smaller-than-usual, yolk less egg that, while cute as heck, sends a message. The...
01/24/2026

One of our ladies laid a “fairy egg,” a smaller-than-usual, yolk less egg that, while cute as heck, sends a message.

They’re laid by new layers or they’re a result of hormonal changes or stress. In the case of this tiny egg, it might have been produced by a brand new layer, but it was most likely laid under duress, as temperatures have plummeted to zero.

Ducks are far more tolerant of cold weather than chickens, as their thick down keeps them warm (there’s a reason down is used in winter coats!). We do not use a heater in their coop. But when it’s this cold, they need a little help…

We employ the “Deep Litter Method,” a low-maintenance management system where bedding layers build up and compost in place, creating a self-heating, odor-reducing material for natural decomposition, producing rich compost for our flowers and a healthier coop environment.

While it does keep the coop a bit warmer, it’s still brrrr up in thar—and ducks, being waterfowl who love being wet, are messy, meaning we need to take extra care to add new layers of pine shavings every day or so in this weather to stay dry.

We added a thick, clear layer of plastic around their outside run to prevent wind exposure and frostbite. We’re replacing their water multiple times a day, adding niacin-enriched vitamin supplements. They get plenty of sweet pea snacks and crunchy mealworms for added protein (they burn more calories in cold weather).

We love our ladies… and their eggs, which are richer and more nutrient-packed than chicken eggs. Soon, we’ll have enough to share with a few of you. Interested in a half dozen a week? (All organic feed/premium raised!) Let us know and we’ll add you to our list.

The third photo is of Eliza, the most curious of our flock, who leaped out of the coop for a quick look around before leaping right back in.






01/14/2026

Morning walks are better with ducks.









The fields are covered with snow, but we already have our first flowers growing indoors and we’re hunkered down reading ...
01/12/2026

The fields are covered with snow, but we already have our first flowers growing indoors and we’re hunkered down reading books and selecting titles to add to our shop.

📕 First up — “The River’s Daughter,” by my friend (and fellow member of our Brave Women Writer group), — a gorgeous memoir of adventure, becoming, and overcoming trauma.

📗”We Survived the Night” is another must-read. weaves his father-son memoir with Indigenous history and mythology and superb journalism. The book… utterly remarkable.

📘I devoured “Empire of Normality,” by Robert Chapman, in a sitting. I’m currently writing my own book on autistic intelligence in a time of collapse (more on this soon!), and Chapman’s book, which argues that liberation for neurodivergent people requires challenging capitalism’s core logic, is right up my alley.

📕 I cried my eyes out when renounced Irish writer died last October. And I’ve cried many times since then reading his phenomenal books about Irish culture, landscape, and language. His work informs how we farm (what we call “Farming on the Spectrum”). “Listen to the Land Speak” explores Irish myths and their connection to the land — more than that, it describes a culture whose very identity is connected to the landscape (despite the best efforts by British colonists to erase it and the English language — a language of conquest — suppressing native Irish culture).

📘 “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This” by is another must-read. Just get your hands on a copy. As author Tommy Orange wrote: “I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now.”

📗 — I’m rereading her remarkable memoir, “The Chronology of Water” before heading to the theater to see the film by the same name — the directorial debut by — We already have this book on our shelves… although we could barely keep it in stock… one of our best sellers in 2025.

📕 “On the Calculation of Volume,” a seven-part novel series by Solvej Balle… a romp of a tale centered around a woman trapped in a single day.







You won’t find every book on the shelves of our bookstore — some of them are just for us. We’re hunkered down for winter...
01/04/2026

You won’t find every book on the shelves of our bookstore — some of them are just for us.

We’re hunkered down for winter — we start planting tomorrow for spring, but we’re taking plenty of time to write books, read as many authors as we can, and learn the names and calls of the birds that live around our farm.

We’re starting a lending library of books written by local children. Want to contribute a book? Drop us a line and we’ll add it to our collection for children to check out in May. (Any nature/animal/farm topics imaginable — although we kindly ask that no hate, discrimination, or guns are involved).

Stay tuned for more info… Until then, happy reading and writing!

Wishing you a winter season filled with words and stories!





And then there were two. Mark will be thrilled to know that we’re well on our way to recouping what was spent on the duc...
12/29/2025

And then there were two.

Mark will be thrilled to know that we’re well on our way to recouping what was spent on the duck condo.

(We won’t talk about how many eggs we’ll need to collect before we break even.)












This morning was cold and balmy… but one of our ducks (Jemima, was if you?!) laid her first egg. The event passed uncere...
12/28/2025

This morning was cold and balmy… but one of our ducks (Jemima, was if you?!) laid her first egg.

The event passed unceremoniously. The ducks left their coop this morning and our layer let her egg freeze. We’ll do a better job checking for now on!

For those of you who don’t know the story of how we became duck owners. Melissa wanted ducks to serve as slug patrol, and Mark came home from a haircut with one sweet little duckling (as it goes, apparently, in Upstate New York!). Ducks are flock animals, so one duck multiplied and became ten. Then… a ridiculous amount of money was spent on a duck house instead of a new roof on one of our accessory buildings or savings or literally anything else at all.

Duck ownership has proven to be a grand, expensive romantic gesture. But we can’t call it a complete money pit — because now we have an egg. A perfect, green, lovely egg.

One. Priceless. Egg.

There will be many more.






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220 County Route 26
Climax, NY
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