FARMING AT GLYNWOOD

Community Supported Agriculture

CSA season kicks off the first week of June and shares are still available. For the first time this year, we have partnered with Philipstown Food Pantry to offer subsidized CSA shares to families in need. To determine if you are eligible, contact Andy Reid at the food pantry, or you can make a donation earmarked for a subsidized share through our online store.

Of note, we are applying for USDA organic certification for our vegetable operation. Our current Certified Naturally Grown growing practices already meet or exceed the national organic standards. The organic application process has been a valuable learning opportunity for our farmer apprentices. Our website provides more information about our vegetable operation and our farmer apprentice programs.

Buying Our Products

Our Farm Store officially opens for the season over Memorial Day weekend, but you can preview the store during Food + Farm Day. Our winter sales hours will continue at the Farm Office on Thursdays from 3-6pm until our grand re-opening.

Our meat special for May, which continues at our Farm Office this Thursday, is for Rib Steaks, on sale for $12.80/lb (normally $16/lb). Our plant sale also continues this week. If you can’t make it to Glynwood for our eggs, they are now available for purchase at Obercreek’s Farm Stand.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Hudson Valley Food + Farm Day

Food + Farm Day is only days away! Rain or shine. We have many exciting activities planned for attendees to learn about our work, including hard cider and charcuterie tastings, seeding demonstrations, farm tours, sheep shearing and more. We also have plenty of fun activities planned for the kids, including storytelling with Jonathan Kruk and hayrides. Tickets are selling fast, so be sure to get yours soon!

June Farm Dinner

Our June Farm Dinner promises to be a special one. Each course prepared by Executive Chef Jodi Cummings will be built around a distinctive Hudson Valley food, such as charcuterie.

Beginning Beekeeping

Sign up now for the second session of our Farm Skills Workshop on beekeeping, led by Glynwood Board member and master apiarist Rodney Dow, taking place Tuesday, June 9th.

Farm Tours

There are new ways for visitors to experience Glynwood this season. Beginning in June, three types of farm tours will be on offer: self-guided tours will be available during Farm Store hours; we’ve added guided “Tours + Tastings” to take place monthly on Saturday afternoons, originating at the Farm Store; and we will continue our seasonal Family Farm Tours led by dedicated children's environmental educators. More information on farm tours and visiting Glynwood is available on our website.

TRAINING FARMERS

Farm Business Incubator

Last call for aspiring farming entrepreneurs! The deadline to apply for our Hudson Valley Farm Business Incubator is quickly approaching on Tuesday, June 30th. Interested parties must submit an application form and a detailed business proposal.

PROMOTING REGIONAL FOOD

Cider Week Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley Chefs Network

Our Hudson Valley Chefs Network is launching a seed-grow out in partnership with Hudson Valley Seed Library and Slow Food USA for which regional growers will plant an heirloom bean variety that originates from Ghent, NY. Participating chefs will then feature the distinctive “Hank’s Bean” on their menus this fall. Through this initiative, we are engaging culinary professionals and providing them with ways to best support farmerss in our region.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week

For the first time, we are partnering with Valley Table as an educational sponsor of the next Hudson Valley Restaurant Week and will be offering opportunities to participating restaurants to connect with and support regional agriculture. Workshops are currently being organized around goat meat and hard cider–two value-added products that are distinct to the Hudson Valley.

CONVENING CHANGEMAKERS

James Beard Boot Camp

The James Beard Foundation’s Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change returns to Glynwood next month. This program provides chefs with advocacy training and farm education so they can become effective leaders for food systems change. More information about our convenings and collaborations is on our website.

IN THE COMMUNITY

Made in Philipstown

IN THE NEWS

We are so happy for Incubator participant Leanna Mulvihill, who was recently featured on WAMC as a beneficiary of student loan forgiveness for farmers.

Congratulations to Michael Meehan, who was awarded a Barnabas McHenry Hudson Valley Award from Open Space Institute to work with us on developing a farmland assessment toolkit. Read more on the OSI website.

“Team Glynwood” participated in Mohonk Preserve’s Rock the Ridge 50-Mile Endurance Challenge on May 2nd and raised $1,500 to benefit our partner in our Farm Business Incubator. Read more in the New Paltz Times.

The New York Times covered Wassail, NYC’s first-ever cider bar and restaurant. We appreciate a little incidental buzz for this year’s Hudson Valley Cider Week.