Adirondack Harvest

Farm Fresh Foods, Local Producers and Adirondack Farmers' Markets

Open Farm Week

Farm Tours at a Hops & Lavender Farm

Celebrate the fall harvest season at the Hopenhagen Farm! The Hopenhagen Farm Tea Room will be open for tea and scones for a special harvest festival cost. We will be available to give guided tours throughout the week or simply pick up a map and descriptions for a self-paced tour where you can see the lavender in the fields being trimmed for winter, hop vines drying in the barn, sunflowers in bloom. The Essential Oil Distillery Barn will be open to view. Our shop will be open, where you can find aromatherapy and culinary products for sale made with the lavender grown on our farm.

Please contact us in advance to schedule a guided tour so we can fit your accessibility needs. Call us at: 315-778-8735.

Our hours for self-guided tours and visits are Monday-Saturday 9-4 and Sunday 11-3.

The Hopenhagen Farm is “a family run farm located in Copenhagen, NY. Walk through our fields, visit our farm store or shop on line for all our finest lavender and hop products.”

Guided Farm Tour at littleGrasse Foodworks

Join farmers Bob Washo and Flip Filippi for a tour of their diversified gardens to learn about their Homestead Share, which grows bulk amounts of vegetables and herbs for participating shareholders to preserve for the off-season. This session will focus on how littleGrasse plans and manages dozens of vegetable and herb crops in a subsistence gardening model that feeds participating shareholders throughout the year.

Join us to learn more about this approach from farmers Bob and Flip as well as special guest speakers with their own homestead gardening and preserving experience, and about how this way of growing food fits into long-standing regional traditions of living off the land. This session is part of a season-long partnership between littleGrasse Community Farm and area non-profit TAUNY called Grow and Tell. This event requires registration and space is limited. Register at: https://tauny.org/sections/4/calendar

littleGrasse Foodworks is a “diversified small-scale farm 1 mile from the village of Canton. Using zero pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers, we grow vegetables, flowers and herbs for people living or working in the Canton-area. The model we follow is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Our CSA encourages a meaningful connection between YOU the shareholders, US the farmers and THE FOOD that is naturally grown in the 3 acres of gardens. Our share options are unique and delicious! Individuals can sign up for one or all of the three complementary options: Summer you pick share, Fall (we pick for you) share and Bulk Share. Join us for healthy fresh produce, family-friendly learning opportunities and the pleasure of community building through food.”

Victory Garden Tour & Scavenger Hunt

ADKX Curator and Gardener-led tours of our seasonal Victory Garden. Learn how people at home during World War II supported the war effort by growing their own foods and canning and preserving what they grew since food was rationed during the war years. Tours begin at 1:00 and 3:00. Throughout the day, young visitors can challenge themselves with a Victory Garden-themed scavenger hunt.

Included with museum admission.

The Adirondack Experience, Museum on Blue Mountain Lake offers more than 40,000 square feet of exciting exhibitions housed in 24 modern and historic buildings on a 121 acre campus. Interactive, hands-on activities abound, making the stories of the Adirondacks and its people highly engaging for the whole family.

You-Pick Garden Harvest & Kids Activities with Power of Produce Club

Celebrate the harvest season and the bounty of amazing vegetables, pumpkins, herbs, and cut flowers in full bloom in the garden at DaCy Meadow Farm this fall. Farm-gardener Mary Godnick will be available to show you around and offer tips for harvesting. Bring a re-useable bag, basket, or box and fill it up with fresh food to take home and enjoy. Pay what makes sense for you, $20 suggested donation for a big shopping tote full of goodies.

The Power of Produce Club will also be there doing special activities for kids! Kids will learn about vegetable growing in the fall, and have the chance to pick their own little harvest as well. All kids programming is free.

Apple cider and fall-themed snacks will be provided.

Please pull in at the “DaCy Meadow Farm” sign and turn left. Watch for crossing chickens and park along the grass. No dogs, please. Rain or shine.

The Power of Produce Club is a weekly kids program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Essex County at the Lake Placid and Saranac Lake farmers’ markets. The goal of the club is to engage kids with fun activities while teaching them about local food, science, and agriculture. 

DaCy Meadow Farm is a complete farmstay experience. Whether you hike on our trails, stay as a lodging guest, share a farm to table meal, visit for a few hours, a day, a week, volunteer, become part of our extended farm family, or create your own vision at DaCy Meadow Farm you are a valued part of our intentional community. We invite you to join us and to reconnect with the land and farming physically, spiritually, one human connection at a time.

 

Farm Tour & Farmers Market Flatbread

Join us for an informal tour and wood-fired pizza. Learn all about our continuing journey in bringing an old farm back to life with good bread. We’ll tour the Breadery and the livestock operations, along with the Riverside Trail on the Boquet River. We’ll round out the evening with wood-fired pizza, local farm greens and lots of good vibes. Please register at triplegreenjadefarm.com/farm-events/.

Triple Green Jade is a small organic, diversified farm on 80 acres bordering the Boquet River where we bake sourdough breads and gourmet crackers with freshly milled local flour. We also have pastured poultry, free range eggs, and an emerging micro-dairy.

You-Pick Grapes and Flowers (self-serve)

Our farm will be open for self-serve you-pick flowers and grapes all week in honor of the Adirondack Harvest Festival Open Farm week!  Visit our farmstore for more information.

Adirondack View Vineyard and Lavender Farm is a 13-acre diversified farm in Keeseville, NY. We have a variety of products available including grapes, lavender, sunflowers, garlic, pumpkins, and berries (black raspberries, blueberries, and red currants). Products are organically grown. We offer u-pick, retail, wholesale, and event venue. Lavender: Currently, there are over 800 plants and we are still expanding. Lavender can be used in cooking and beauty products. We offer u-pick lavender and a variety of products for sale.

Guided Farm Tour at Tangleroot Farm

Join Adam Reed of Tangleroot Farm for a tour of their certified organic vegetable operation! Learn how their wide selection of vegetables are grown for their weekly door-to-door CSA program. Please park in the loop in front of the greenhouses.

 

About Tangleroot Farm “our mission is to get our Certified Organic veggies to as many people as possible while improving our triple bottom line of Quality of Life, Land Stewardship and Community. Whether it’s our minimal till practices to improve the soil and protect it’s biology, or our door-to-door CSA delivery to keep you safe during COVID, we take pride in our community, our food, and our business.”

Birding at Barred Owl Brook Farm with CATS

Join the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) team for a hike around Barred Owl Brook Farm. Learn about how CATS works with area farms to preserve wildlands for wildlife, like many of the fall-migrant birds you may see along the walk. See Alex and Audrey Caskey’s growing farm featuring a tree nursery, katahdin sheep, ducks, and mushroom cultivation. Participants should be prepared to hike around on easy terrain. Since birding will be part of the program, we encourage you to bring binoculars if you have them. No pets please. This event will be limited to 15 people, so please make sure you can attend before signing up. We will meet at Barred Owl Brook Farm for this walk. Please sign up here: https://signup.com/go/pLrOUrs

Champlain Area Trails (CATS) saves land, makes trails, connects people with nature and promotes economic vitality in New York’s Champlain Valley.

Barred Owl Brook Farm is a tree-based farm nestled along the Adirondack Coast in Westport, NY.

 

 

Kiss the Ground Film Showing at the Grange

Join us at the Whallonsburg Grange for a documentary focusing on regenerative agriculture, “Kiss the Ground”(2020).

“Kiss the Ground” (2020) is an “inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.”  Documentary focusing on regenerative agriculture.


The historic Whallonsburg Grange is located in the heart of the Champlain Valley, 5 miles from Lake Champlain and the village of Essex, New York. It sits at the crossroads of NYS Route 22 and Whallons Bay Road in the hamlet of Whallonsburg. The beautifully restored, century-old building is home to concerts by regionally and nationally known performers, a bi-weekly film series, plays, lectures, classes and workshops throughout the year. 

Compost Workshop

Learn about each of the 3 types of compost methods used at Up Yonda Farm, the pros/cons of each, and how to start your own. For adult learners and families. $5 per participant, in addition to the $5 per vehicle day use fee. Participants are welcome to explore the facilities and grounds on their own before or after the program, after they have paid the day use fee! Participation will be capped, please pre-register here: https://forms.gle/E1EQabMr8Bs22npj7. Though we love pets, pets are not allowed at Up Yonda Farm. A limited number of handicapped parking spots are available. The program will take place on a mix of paved and natural surfaces that are mostly flat but can be uneven in spots.

Up Yonda Farm “offers 72 acres with a spectacular view overlooking Lake George. Public, school & group nature programs on a variety of topics are presented year-round.”