Our Great Plains grain drill is virtually the only ten-foot grain drill on Long Island to have the wheels in the center and not at the ends. By making that modification, we are able to plant cover crop, grains, and grasses right up to the edge of the field without a wheel getting in the …
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6/15/2020
Planting cover crop provides several benefits, including adding organic matter into the soil, providing crop rotation where trees or some other crop was planted the previous year, and helping to lessen erosion.
06/13/2020
Getting our ducks in a row before we head out to the field with the machinery. It has been a busy season for us on the farm.Attachments area
06/11/2020
Here’s a preview of some of our coming attractions.Peaches: We anticipate an abundant harvest of peaches this summer, including white peaches, yellow peaches, donut-shaped peaches, clingstone peaches, and freestone peaches. Bakery: When peach season gets underway, look for our peach pies, orchard harvest tarts, peach-blueberry tarts, and peach-raspberry jam, all made fresh in our own …
5/30/2020
Installing wooden posts for our planting of trellised apple trees. Growing apples on a trellis provides several benefits, including keeping high winds from damaging the branches, and allowing more sunlight to enter the tree, which produces better-tasting apples.
April 8
Chopping the prunings into little bits.