On a former Amish dairy farm (which had no electric service until 2014, no indoor toilet until 2016!) between the Mohawk River and the foothills of the Adirondacks, we (Pam & Chris) started carving a different niche in a region of monoculture crops and dairy farms. We seek a zone between the Amish (slow, old-fashioned, or simple) and what the Amish call "English" (fast, modern, or overly complicat
ed) and often have felt like oddities here. Pam had been growing vegetables since 1998, but the farm idea started with rabbits. We arrived in Stone Arabia with the back seat of a pickup truck full of seedlings and a used horse trailer with 30+ rabbits. Soon after came a few dozen layer hens, eight turkey poults, and 50 meat chicks. Then 15 hogs of various ages joined the menagerie. And everything has evolved from there. Veal calves, beeves, ducks, goats, and sheep increase species diversity and convert acres of former cropland and meadow to grazing pastures and hay meadows. We have refined enterprises each year in response to our experience, and our current focus is on pasture-raising livestock seasonally (this is the REAL upstate New York, after all) for meat and eggs, feeding hungry consumers at several NYC Greenmarket locations. We do not operate a farm store but do sell product from the farm by appointment. Please check out our website, then call or email to inquire about product availability (it changes too often to keep current inventory!) and make an appointment. Thanks for reading!
