
12/09/2022
Join Us in Sharing Joy! - https://mailchi.mp/632321c22b8f/join-us-in-sharing-joy Holiday pre-orders close 12/15!
Farm-fresh creamtop whole milk, farmstead gelato & cheeses are available in our on-farm store. Spring hours Th 4-7, Fri 1-7, Sat 11-7, Sun 1-7.
Farm-raised beef & pork available by the cut, through our CSA, freezer bundles, 1/4, 1/2 or whole animals.
Operating as usual
Join Us in Sharing Joy! - https://mailchi.mp/632321c22b8f/join-us-in-sharing-joy Holiday pre-orders close 12/15!
Visit us in Elmira on Sundays through the winter! We have Mac & cheese, & hot chocolate today too!
New Farmer Alert! We are very excited to welcome Crosswinds Farm & Creamery to the Acres Sunday! They will be increasing the variety of local foods available in Southport every Sunday. they carry milk,yogurt,meat,cheese and so much more! Come meet your local farmers
Lions, Tigers & ....Cheesecakes OH MY! - https://mailchi.mp/b64281ce6315/lions-tigers-cheesecakes-oh-my
It’s going to be another beautiful day! Find us for a cup of amazing hot chocolate to start it off right! See you there!
Photos from Trumansburg Farmers Market's post
Making the marshmallows today for our hot chocolate! Now available at the farm store at Rock Stream, coming soon to Ithaca Farmers Market! Really, the grass in these bales will ferment and be stored for winter feed for the cows - so they really will end up in our hot chocolate! ̇day
It’s mac & cheese weather for sure!
Want to make the perfect pie crust? Have you tried our pastured pork lard? We do the work of rendering so that it’s ready for you to use to create culinary masterpieces! Plus it’s heart-healthy fat & high in vitamin D! You can find it in booth 82 at Ithaca Farmers Market, Trumansburg Farmers Market or in our farm store!
Looking like one more beautiful fall day - join us at The Pumpkin Stand from 4-7 tonight!
Join us for our last Silo at The Stand!
Today 4-7pm
Pre Order Silo at www.SiloFoodTruck.com (Ovid Location)
Vendor Line Up:
Big aLICe Brewing FLX
Boland Thomas Vineyards
Cat Elbow Farm and Craft
Crosswinds Farm & Creamery
Shelly's Cookies
Moutain Moor Farm
The Pumpkin Stand
7844 State Rte 414
Ovid, NY 14521
www.ThePumpkinStand.com
Silo Food Truck will return to co-host our Fall Festival, Oct 22nd & 23rd!
Busy prepping for Little Falls Cheese Festival this Saturday!
This week's Local Business of the Week is: Crosswinds Farm & Creamery
Crosswinds Farm & Creamery is a diverse, grass-based dairy and livestock farm located in the heart of the Finger Lakes. Find Sarah and Charles Morrow and their Alpine-style cheese at the Little Falls Cheese Festival!
If you would like to have your local business featured, please call your local sales representative or Becky Mauk at 518-673-0166.
Photos from The Pumpkin Stand's post
Happy still-summer Sunday morning!
Find us in Little Falls October 1!
...current mood 😄
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1...be here!
👩🌾🥦🥬🧅🧄🫑🍆🌶🥔🥕🌽🍅🍠
Summer berry season is fleeting in the -grab them while you can! These black raspberries were with our yogurt! The epitome of summer! Find our yogurt in our farmstore in Rock Stream all week, or find us at markets Wed-Sun along with our berry growing neighbors Littletree Orchards Blackduck Cidery Knapp FarmMangus Farm & more Ithaca Farmers Market Trumansburg Farmers Market The Pumpkin Stand Sampson State Park
“And you will realize the greatest gift is getting to be a farm kid.”
What is it like to be a farmer’s daughter, or son? To wear the label of “farm kid”? Being one myself, I can tell you it changes throughout your life time.
Your first memories will be of cows and tractors. You will know the sweet smell of the milk the calf eagerly drinks, the softness of their hair as you push your face into their necks and the roughness of their tongues as they mistake your fingers for ni***es. You will know the smell of diesel fuel and soil, often as it’s owned combined fragrance and be able to recall the vibration of the tractor seat you share with your dad while he lets you steer. There will be memories of tires on plastic as you “help” cover the silage pile. Meals brought to fields. The first time you see a calf be born. You will wonder why everyone doesn’t have a cow in their yard or a tractor in their driveway. The early years will be full of all that is special about being a farm kid.
And then you will realize the sacrifice that comes from your family’s chosen profession. You will notice your dad (or mom) doesn’t always make it to dinner, games or Christmas morning. You will notice the hushed conversations of adults talking about things like weather, milk prices, fuel prices and other bills and feel the worry. Because you are a teenager the sacrifice will be a burden and may breed resentment, even in the most resilient of farm kids. Who wants to toss hay on a warm summer day when their friends are at the lake? Who wants to try to hide the smell of cow manure with perfume or cologne because they had to work before they went to the basketball game with their friends? Why can’t their parents just leave the barn and not worry about a sick cow, whether the rain is coming, the payment that is due?
But then something magical will happen. You will be able to see all the farm gave you, all the experiences that are unique only to farm kids. You will hear the compliments on your work ethic in school, in sports, in 4H. You will see the farm through the eyes of visitors, friends, teachers and hear their astonishment at what your family does, see the excitement for the cows and tractors. You will find other farm kids and compare stories, realizing that you are not alone. You will be able to listen to the tough conversations and know the stories of how your family business survived the hard times. You will work beside grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings. You will share the laughter and the tears. And even if you don’t make the farm your full time occupation, even if the farm is no longer there, your heart will still be that of a farm kid. It will swell with a love and pride that only a farm kid knows when you talk of your days doing chores, of your time spent with family, of the precious lessons learned that shaped you into the person you are today. And you will realize the greatest gift is getting to be a farm kid.
Crosswinds Farm & Creamery updated their address.
Today started with a beautiful view of the sunrise from the milking parlor! From all of our mothers, we wish you a wonderful day! We are treating moms to free cones at the farm store today, scooping from 1-7! 4721 SR14A Rock Stream ☀️
News Flash: Cheesecakes & Free Cones for Mom This Weekend! - https://mailchi.mp/8d49ee9d2b93/news-flash-cheesecakes-free-cones-for-mom-this-weekend
Nature's powerhouse protein drink, packed full of nutrients!
Have you tried our peppermint milk yet? Bottling it fresh right now for the first of the year! We’ll have milk, gelato, yogurt, cheese, eggs, beef & pork for your dining pleasures from 4-7 today! See you there!
Crosswinds Farm & Creamery updated their business hours.
We travel with tractors on the road too, and the recklessness with which drivers pass just gets worse. Please slow down. Please don’t pass farm equipment unless you can do so safely. Your food supply depends on it!
Today we were passed on double line corner. The oncoming car had to break and pull over.
People constantly try to get between me and that tractor.
Lights. Signs. Hazzard lights. Arms waving. Driving over the white line. Pulling over when there is room.
Nothing seems to matter when people are inconvenienced by our presence.
That man right there is my entire world. I have zero intentions of doing life without him.
If there was another way for us to get equipment between our two farms, trust me, we would do it. But there isn't...
So let me make something very clear, I will do whatever it takes to keep him safe. So don't for one second think I won't use my own vehicle to shield him from you.
I am so done. So done people being in such a hurry they are willing to risk other people's lives...
Our lovely ladies would like you to know the farm store & scoop shop in Rock Stream is now OPEN Thursday -Sunday til 7! Take advantage of this beautiful day to come out for a cone & check out everything else we have to offer!
Only one month to go!
⭐️We'll leave this right here⭐️
Check out this line-up! We are so excited for this season. More announcements coming soon! Including the music line-up, extended hours and our 20th Anniversary Celebration!
Every Wednesday, starting May 4. 4pm-7pm.
IT’S BACK & it’s soooo good! Green grass is a dead giveaway that this photo is a throwback, all the way to 2015, but our yogurt is back! Thank you to all who have patiently (or impatiently) waited this long! It’s smooth, creamy, just-tangy-enough real dairy deliciousness loaded with gut boosting probiotics. We let it culture in the cup so that the 100% grassfed butterfat layer rises to the top. We’ll have it this weekend, or stop in at the farm store in Rock Stream! the first one’s for you!
What we all wish we were doing today...hiding in a cozy spot away from the bitter cold & wind (real feel 1F)! But instead we’re fighting our way through the daily animal care, dealing with frozen everything from water to tractor parts. Two weeks of warm & mud reverting to this level of cold is rough on the animals, the people and the equipment. Have to remember each day is temporary.
All roads lead to this morning! What a difference a few days makes - hardly feels like last weekend was a blizzard. We’re loaded down with milk, cheese, gelato, beef and pork so come stock up at Triphammer til 2 today! Farm store at Rock Stream also open til 7!
If You Could Get Everything You Eat at One Farm Stop, Would You? - https://mailchi.mp/7037bf35a0a6/if-you-could-get-everything-you-eat-at-one-farm-stop-would-you Learn more about the concept of a whole diet, free choice farmshare! Would it work for you?
We’re still planning to be at market tomorrow, but we’ll see how the snow pans out! Let’s hope this is the end of it! We’re ready for spring!
D'oh! Just when we thought spring was around the corner, New York weather does its thing. We are planning on market tomorrow (full vendor list here: https://ithacamarket.com/markets/winter-market/) but will decide by 7a tomorrow if we need to cancel. We'll let ya know here, on our website and in an email. Stay safe and warm out there!
Farm store is OPEN today & tomorrow so you can stock up while the weather is beautiful! ❄️ ❄️ Milk, cheese, beef, pork & gelato! Find us at 4721 SR 14A Rock Stream!
You can find our milk at Lowery Family Farms in Campbell!
Freshly stocked with peppermint, chocolate & whole milk! Farm store is open til 6 today, 11-7 Saturday at 4721 SR 14A, Rock Stream! Or get your fix at at Triphammer!
🍦We won the gelato-ry with new sweet treat! Available in 13 flavors on our online store, you can order today until 10p for easy curbside pick up on Saturday between 12-2p at Triphammer Plaza. YUM! 🍦
Link to shop: https://ithacamarket.localfoodmarketplace.com
Big Things! Milk! Gelato! - https://mailchi.mp/a03e6be307e2/big-things-milk-gelato
CSIRO debunks cattle myths
CSIRO research shows cattle contribute far more protein than they consume
This is an awesome new IFM program making the online marketplace more accessible!
ATTN: Are you a City of Ithaca resident with SNAP benefits or considered low to moderate income? Shop online with the Ithaca Farmers Market and receive a 60% discount on groceries. Here's how it works:
-Shop weekly from Mon 6a-Thurs 10p
LINK: https://ithacamarket.localfoodmarketplace.com/
-Come to Triphammer Marketplace Sat b/w 12-2p
-Complete a short survey, pay and receive your order!
QUESTIONS: [email protected]
[With gratitude to the City of Ithaca, New York Community Development Block Grant Program]
Single digits & happy as clams. Much more content in the cold than the humans taking care of them today!
Cheers to new beginnings! And yes, I took this pic today in our pasture in the where it was 53 degrees. Farm life has been a struggle with all the mud & the huge temp swings but these dandy lions made me smile today! Do what you can with what you have!
This new peanut greeted me when I came to check cows at midnight! Her momma had her all licked dry and filled her belly! Super 😎 that she’s a heifer (girl) and polled, which means naturally hornless. The blue on her mouth is an oral vaccine that we use to give immediate protection against ecoli and other infections. We’re in for a rare winter baby boom- we usually try to avoid calving in bad weather but it didn’t work out that way this year - so wish these babies & us luck & stay tuned! We love when our momma cows do their part to get their babies off to a great start!
4721 State Route 14A
Rock Stream, NY
14878
Thursday | 4pm - 7pm |
Friday | 1pm - 6pm |
Saturday | 11am - 7pm |
Sunday | 1pm - 7pm |
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Happy still-summer Sunday morning! #sundaybreakfast #sundayfundays #flxoutdoors #ithacafarmersmarket #flxcheese #grassfeddairy
What we all wish we were doing today...hiding in a cozy spot away from the bitter cold & wind (real feel 1F)! But instead we’re fighting our way through the daily animal care, dealing with frozen everything from water to tractor parts. Two weeks of warm & mud reverting to this level of cold is rough on the animals, the people and the equipment. Have to remember each day is temporary. #winteragain #hahamothernatureveryfunny #knowyourfarmer #ithacafarmersmarket #farmlife
Roseanna is hands down the leader of the herd; even on days like today when it’s driving rain, she’s the first one to pasture. Her momma Rosabella was the same, and so was her grandma Rose, one of our founding herd matriarchs. Every cow herd has a pecking order, which apparently has a genetic component. Rose is the namesake of our “Rose’s Reserve” aged cheese, and we’ll have some at the @ithacafarmersmarket this weekend, and the @littlefallscheese fest next weekend! #cowfamilytree #artisancheese #brownswissofinstagram #swisslove❤️ #storiesofcheese #familyfarming #flxcheese
Mornings like these are why we love this place. #ethereal #nofilterneeded #morninghasbroken❤️ #flx #flxoutdoors #ithacafarmersmarket
The ☀️ is shining & we’re rolling! Today I’m tedding! Tedding flips & fluffs the cut grass to get to very piece exposed to the sun for faster drying! Fast drying preserves more sugar in the plant, translating to better winter feed for the cows & tastier milk & meat for you! #makehaywhilethesunshines #grassfedyearround #flxoutdoors #ithacafarmersmarket #ithacany
Rain or shine or just...Grey....we’ll see you @ithacafarmersmarket every Saturday & Sunday! #sunshineorsaturation #summervibes #summer2021 #flxcheese
Night moves. When it’s this hot & humid, giving the cows fresh grass at night keeps them eating during the cooler part of the day. Dawn & dusk are naturally peak grazing hours! #itsonlyjunethough #grassbuffet #flxoutdoors #flx #ithacafarmersmarket #grassfed
For everyone who says the sun doesn’t shine in #ithacany ....not a cloud in the sky! #flx #flxfarms #ithacafarmersmarket #grassfed #smallfarms
We’re on a roll! Baby #3 is also a heifer! She picked a cold & wet place to arrive, but she’s snuggled in hay now & her mama’s doing her job. #springbabiesarethebest #brownswisslove #flx #flxcheese #grassfed
2020 baby #2 is also a little lady! Her mom is Radish so we need another “R” vegetable/food name....there’s already Rutabaga, Russet, Rhubarb, Ruby and Relish in the family tree. Ideas?? #brownswissofinstagram #flx #flxcheese #ithacafarmersmarket
Nature réassures us that all will eventually be right. #flx #grassfed #springmigration #ithacafarmersmarket #springishere #smallfarms #inthistogether
Synchronized cud chewing for the win! The ladies are totally relaxed in the parlor. #flx #flxcheese #brownswissofinstagram #smallfarms
The girls are unphased by the 30 degree temperature drop! We hope you can say the same - come see us tomorrow at the #Ithacafarmersmarket at #triphammermarketplace
First @tburgfarmersmkt of the year! We have lots of beef, pork & cheese. Beautiful weather & a wide selection of vendors! Here til 7 #localfood #grassfed #knowyourfarmer #trumansburgny #flx