Rondout Valley
By Rusty Plough Farm on Tuesday, Apr. 28, 2015 - 8:07 am
Well, here we are at the end of April, and it seems that spring is struggling to take hold... We've been enjoying and selling kale that overwintered in the high tunnel but the arugula & cilantro seeded in there earlier this month has paused just... Read more
By Rusty Plough Farm on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 - 3:23 pm
We are often asked, "So what do you do in the wintertime?", to which we of course, reply, "What else but eat bonbons all day long?!". All jesting aside, winters on our farm are certainly more physically restful and indoors than the rest of the year. But... Read more
By Rusty Plough Farm on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015 - 6:31 pm
One of the things we love about living in the Hudson Valley area is the abundance of fresh produce and other farm foods (especially our own!). But what's a local food-lover to do in mid-February, when all is quietly cocooned under deep layers of snow?... Read more
By Rusty Plough Farm on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 - 9:22 am
Snow, snow, snow and more snow! While the farm fields rest under their white blanket, farm work continues behind-the-scenes, around the warmth of a woodstove. Planning, meeting, ordering seeds from incredibly colorful and encouraging catalogs... this is... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 - 10:58 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. (To see the cartoon in more detail, click the image.) For more background on this cartoon, click here. You can see Mayer's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 - 10:23 am
A mockup of what a Rondout Valley tourist map might look like, from the Valley of the Giants website.
Pop artist Maria Reidelbach -- the force of nature behind Kerhonkson's "Gnome Chomsky," the world's second-largest garden gnome -- has a vision for... Read more
