What’s New
May 16th 2012
Basil Growing Tips from Farmer Jack // Part Two: Potting Up
We’re following up on our Earth Day we are partnership with Le Pain Quotidien. This year, we celebrated with basil, sharing its seeds and tips on planting with visitors and customers. This familiar culinary herb, with its many varieties and uses, is an easy herb …
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May 11th 2012
No Gift is Too Poultry
Show your support for sustainable agriculture with your phone! Now through June 30 Stone Barns is celebrating all things sustainable poultry! We’ll be sharing facts, news, photos, farm-sayings and much more about our avian operations. The Center is supported by members, public program offerings and …
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May 9th 2012
New Layers out on Pasture
In the spring, the Center is bursting with all things new–new seeds meet the soil, resting perennials see new growth and patient plants germinate. In the barnyard and pasture, lambs are born, goose eggs hatch, and new life experiences green grass for the first time. …
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Apr 22nd 2012
Basil Growing Tips from Farmer Jack // Part One: Seeding
This Earth Day we are partnering with Le Pain Quotidien and celebrating with basil. This familiar culinary herb, with its many varieties and uses, is an easy herb to grow at home–either in your garden or on your window sill. So make your home a …
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Apr 20th 2012
Le Pain Quotidien Basil Planting Tips
Happy Earth Week! Be sure to pick up a free packet of basil seeds from any Le Pain Quotidien location (along with a delicious baked good of some sort!) from April 20 – 23 in celebration of Earth Day. Check out these planting tips straight …
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Apr 16th 2012
Planting New York Potatoes
Today, farmers, field apprentices and volunteers are planting four varieties of potatoes. There is something quite special about these four varieties–Adirondack Red, Adirondack Blue, Keuka Gold and Noradonna. Cornell professor Walter De Jong bred them all, and they are bred in New York State …
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Apr 13th 2012
Tamar Adler Discusses “An Everlasting Meal”: A Twitter Inspired Play-by-Play
The Play-by-Play 2:45 To prime you our for Wintertide talk with Tamar Adler, click here to read her interview on the blog Poor Man’s Feast. 3:00 Tamar Adler author of An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace has worked as a writer, chef …
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Apr 10th 2012
2012 Spring Camp Highlights
Last week, 16 first through fourth graders from Westchester and Putnam Counties participated in the Center’s Spring Vacation Camp. Campers spent Monday through Thursday becoming a part of the farm–helping our farmers with activities like harvesting produce and collecting eggs from our chickens. This session …
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Mar 28th 2012
The Root of It: “Bellwether”
Phrases from our Farming History As part of our work to link people with food, farms and the land, Stone Barns Livestock Farm Manager Craig Haney reconnects us with a part of our language that has been mystified by time and distance. Periodically, we’ll take …
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Mar 23rd 2012
Andrea Beaman–Ancient Roots and Delicious Wisdom: A Twitter Inspired Play-By-Play
Opening 3:05 PM Beaman used to be a junk food junkie—frozen snickers were her best friend! 3:07 PM Old knowledge we had access to before we were so smart and scientific can help bring us back from disease and dysfunction. 3:08 PM Beaman …
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