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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
