StarDust Farm

It all started when I was 6 years old gardening with my mother! That’s when I first learned to love plants, nature, and the mystery of life! In high school, I studied culinary arts at Southern Westchester BOCES, and it was there that I realized – Food would be my life! After graduating high school, I studied at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, where I received my Bachelors in Hospitality Hotel/Restaurant management. In my last year of CIA, I took a class called Food Ecology – A class about where all of our food comes from. It was then, that I made a solemn promise to myself, that I would know the farmers growing and raising my food. But that still wasn’t good enough! I wanted to take the next step, I wanted to grow and raise as much as I could myself. StarDust Farm, then began in 2010, with a humble planting of a few tomato, pepper, and herb plants. A year later, I started raising my own birds - chickens, and ducks. The following year I bought 3 pregnant ewes – each of them giving birth to twins. And last year I raised hogs that I made into salami and other charcuterie. Currently on the farm, there are 12 sheep – 1 adult ram (named Daddy-O!), 5 Adult Ewes, and 6 lambs – 3 rams, 3 ewes. I have 3 goats – and 40 hens - all layers, 3 roosters, the oldest and one of the originals is named Lord Toronaga, and I am currently putting up fencing to raise more hogs. The majority of the herbs and vegetables that are grown on the farm get turned into the StarDust Farm Seasoning Blend.