Sage Hen Farm

Sage Hen Farm Sage Hen Farm focuses on heirloom and uncommon varieties. Garlic, eggs, fruit, herbs, vegetables. We’re members of Seed Savers Exchange and NOFA-NY.

At Sage Hen Farm, we take our role as caretakers seriously, using environmentally responsible, low-impact practices to grow veggies, fruits, culinary herbs, and flowers from A to Z, as well as 80 strains of hardneck and softneck garlic. Our small orchard of over 200 trees has heirloom and hard-to-find varieties of apples, plus peaches, cherries, pears, and plums; in some years the early spring dee

p freeze spares them and we have bountiful crops. Our free-ranging chickens, ducks, and turkeys lay eggs in a rainbow assortment of colors and sizes, and our bees are active pollinators and honey producers. Much of the farm is left uncultivated to provide habitat for wildlife, including birds, amphibians, and insects that are in decline. Our aim is diversity, not bulk production, so we are too small-scale for organic certification. We use no herbicides, synthetic pesticides, or GMOs, do minimal tilling, use mulch and living groundcovers, and buy certified organic seeds and plants whenever possible. Since 2007, we’ve been vendors at the sweet and lively Trumansburg Farmers’ Market. You can find us there on Wednesdays, 4-7 pm, May through October. We also make some deliveries in the Ithaca and Trumansburg areas on request, or can arrange for pickup at the farm. We support access to healthy food for all.

09/05/2026

And for my next act, watch me make… well, I won’t give it away.
Note: I’m not a great one-handed videographer.

09/02/2026

Worried about eating imported beef that may be contaminated? Here’s a solution. Go to the Trumansburg Farmers Market today. There will be several farmers selling beef that comes from cattle they raised.
Don’t live in the area? The best solution is still to buy local. 

Apple picking has begun. One variety we picked yesterday was Detroit Red. Here’s some information about it.
08/30/2026

Apple picking has begun. One variety we picked yesterday was Detroit Red. Here’s some information about it.

Detroit Red has been given a bad rap.

Picked these Clapp’s Favorite pears today. 11 days later than I picked Clapp’s 15 years ago. And they look different. Hm...
08/22/2026

Picked these Clapp’s Favorite pears today. 11 days later than I picked Clapp’s 15 years ago. And they look different. Hmmm. Something doesn’t seem right. 

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the day at the Trumansburg Farmers Market, we sold the first fruit from our orchard....
08/11/2026

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the day at the Trumansburg Farmers Market, we sold the first fruit from our orchard. They were some pears, Clapp's Favorite.

This is our entire plum harvest for 2026. A very rainy spring and a late killer frost did in the blossoms.
08/03/2026

This is our entire plum harvest for 2026. A very rainy spring and a late killer frost did in the blossoms.

Apples, if we can reach them.The Idared tree just outside our house.Photo taken through a window.
08/01/2026

Apples, if we can reach them.
The Idared tree just outside our house.
Photo taken through a window.

Two eggs you’d never see in a supermarket. On the left is a duck egg with a squiggle on top. For some reason, it is also...
07/30/2026

Two eggs you’d never see in a supermarket. On the left is a duck egg with a squiggle on top. For some reason, it is also smaller than a chicken instead of the usual much bigger. The egg on the right came from a hen. The shell wasn’t fully hardened when it came out.

Both of them will be home use eggs. We know some of our customers would take delight in seeing that squiggle, but they also might be disappointed in seeing such a small egg included in the carton. There is nothing wrong with the inside of the brown egg, but it won’t keep or travel well. It might end up on my breakfast plate tomorrow.

A new apple variety for our orchard.
07/08/2026

A new apple variety for our orchard.

Almost a Revolutionary War Story

Our birds were given their liberty today, but they didn’t want independence, so they all came home to roost.
07/05/2026

Our birds were given their liberty today, but they didn’t want independence, so they all came home to roost.

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2343 Parmenter Road
Lodi, NY
14860

Telephone

+6073514536

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