Hang a Wreath Sponsor a Greenhouse

This winters project is to build a solar greenhouse! Fundraising, design and construction of the greenhouse will be complete by the end of February ready to start the first seeds: onions, scallions and leeks! Transplants from the greenhouse will be planted in fields at ASS and neighboring farms, including Straight Out of the Ground Farm, Roxbury, NY. A greenhouse at the AS farm includes 9 months of dynamic space use for both Andes Sprouts farm exchange and residency programs goals. Building a greenhouse on the Andes Sprouts farm allows the farm to extend the season, on both ends. Spring time use will include starting seeds for transplanting in the fields after June1st(traditional frost-free day around here). Come September, first frost can happen anytime in the Catskills, so a greenhouse can promote good conditions for frost sensitive plants.
Throughout the summer months the greenhouse turns into a lab for residency artists to develop bio-projects in.

Wreaths are made at the AS farmhouse by visiting farmhands and friends of the farm. Douglass fir, white pine, yellow pine branches were sustainably harvested at local farms supporting this project. Hot peppers are edible and are extremely hot, eat with caution, thai hot(tiny red ones) and limon pepper(habanero variety)

From December 10 thru the New Year
Wreaths will be hanging at
Second Stop Cafe
located on the corner of Lorimer and Ainslie St in Brooklyn,
open m-f 7am to 10pm
open sat+sun 8am-10am
EAT Cafe
located at 124 Meserole Ave. Greenpoint
open wed-fri 9am -10pm
open sate+sun 10am - 10pm

Please stop by and pick up a wreath and support our greenhouse project! Thank You.

hot sauce!!

Jalapenos, garlic, vinegar, salt, ball mason jars.... liza burke and erwin karl cooked up 3 gallons of hot hot sauce!

pickling by Chloe Swan

A traditional way to preserve your garden cukes is to pickle them. With a brine (apple cider vinegar, salt and water) that is brought to a boil, pour brine into sterilized jars packed with cucumbers, daikon radish, carrots, garlic, dill, fennel, grape leaves to keep the cukes crunchy.

thanks to Straight Out of the Ground farm for the vegetables.

drive-in organic mini market

open 24 hrs.
thanks to Alison Wilder for opening the market.







































photos from 1,3,4 by Xavier Faltot

one acre plowed and limed

jeff waters from new kingston, disked and plowed an acre of the andes hillside. to prepare the soil for next season crops 3 tons of lime was spread(pick-up truck to haul the lime in and tovey with a shovel) and oats cover crop planted.

Garlic Seed Exchange

April 2008 during a trip to Memphis to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, I made a visit to Midtown North community garden where I met Farmer Mary Norman. Midtown North garden is one of five community gardens in Memphis under the direction of GrowMemphis, a collaborative between the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center and local communities.
Within 5 minutes of my arrival Mary had me shoveling compost into raised beds. The Midtown North garden serves as a resource garden providing seedlings, fertilizer, compost and seeds for the other four gardens in the city.
Farmer Norman says
"We're trying to bridge the gap between seniors and youth. We want to pass on our wisdom, not only about gardening, but eating right and taking back neighborhoods."

She expressed interest in the garlic we grow and thanks to a bountiful garlic harvest, there was plenty to share with Memphis. ASsociety sent Farmer Mary 200 garlic cloves to get started.

Recycling tires, Midtown North garden planted about 5-6 cloves in each tire and they are on their way to having seed and garlic for market in this upcoming season.

Bees in the house

Bees moved into the farmhouse in Andes a couple of years ago. Tovey collected rent/honey from the bees in October.
what to do next with the bees?
Beekeeper Rupert visited the farm today and showed us videos of beekeepers in brazil and upstate ny. we especially like the beekeeper in Tivoli using topbar hive system. one of these topbar hives could be future home of andes sprouts bees. to be continued.
see video at
http://www.anarchyapiaries.org/
anarchy apiaries: grassroots beekeeping in the hudson valley

canning school

ASsociety canning school
Flesh Farm, Roxbury, NY

6 days and 600 pounds of heirloom tomatoes, the andes sprout canning school preserved 60 gallons of tomato.

recipe
tomatoes wash, cut stems and blemishes
olive oil drizzled in bottom of big pot.
fill pot with cut tomatoes(big chunks ok) to the top.
add pinch of sea salt and couple cloves of garlic
slow low heat for about 45min or until consistency is saucy, then cool to temp good for pureeing sauce with hand blender.
return to low heat, bring to boil. add genovese basil and hot pepper

canning teacher
Valer Flesh. chef of simple foods opened her commercial kitchen at the Flesh Farm to ASsociety canning students for hours and hours of simmering tomatoes. Valer has been a chef at Cleaver Organic Catering Company, nyc for 10years+.

canning students
Jordan Colon. Greenpoint,Bklyn, Eat proprietor
Erwin Karl. Jefferson, NY, Naturalist
Emily Joiner. Williamsburg, Bklyn, Community Strategist
Cedric Martin. Greenpoint,Bklyn, Artist
Arthur Warren. Roxbury, NY, Prospector


tomatoes, garlic, hot peppers, genovese basil
provided by cooked goose farm.

farm direct to conflux festival

Center for Architecture, nyc hosted 2008 conflux festival headquarters. ASsociety partnered with the conflux opening festivies by providing farm direct SUNGOLD tomatoes.

CONFLUX
The art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space.

Smokin the Competition

Tannersville Crazy Race
non-motorized vehicle

Awarded the Weirdest Racer Prize

ASsociety entry
called "smokin the competition" was a smoker on wheels. the vehicle was smoking a 15 lbs pork shoulder
during the race. following the race we all enjoyed pulled pork sandwiches.

Concept and fabrication by Arthur Warren, Roxbury, NY. prospector
15 lb pork shoulder provided by Flesh Farm, Roxbury, NY
Bikes provided by cooked goose farm, Roxbury, NY

Garlic Harvest with Wave Farm Airtime Residents

100degrees + chicken eggs

100 degrees, chicken eggs, water (for humidity) and time to rotate eggs 3x a day

2 Heats
June 17, 19 eggs placed into the incubator and 21-23 days later we have healthy 9 chicks!
July 15, 24 eggs placed into the incubator and 21-23 days later we have healthy 16 chicks!

Chick adoption
9 chicks adopted by Freddy the Dreamer, Stamford, NY
16 chicks adopted by cooked goose farm, Roxbury, NY

incubator provided by mediocker industries, Bklyn,NY
eggs provided by cooked goosed farm, Roxbury, NY

Farm STANDS

2 roadside garlic stands were built and stationed at ASsociety farm and cooked goose farm
bringing farm direct garlic and variety of produce to the driving public

wagon provided by castrucci
fabrication by
Tovey Halleck. Roxbury, NY
Arthur Warren. Roxbury, NY, prospector

Burroughs Raised Beds

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own.

spring 2008
Associety and Wired Heifer House build raised beds
The raised beds sit on the Wired Heifer House fields just south of the family farm Burroughs was born at in 1837, his writing studio Woodchuck Lodge and his final resting place at Boyhood Rook.

(8) raised beds 4 x 100'
planted pumpkin seeds
37 varieties of heirloom tomatoes
cucumbers

Truchitecure

twin cab pick up truck transformed into a farm stand

Tovey Halleck, Roxbury, NY, Truchitect

fabrication assistance by
Arthur Warren. Roxbury, NY, prospector
Erwin Karl. Jefferson, NY, naturalist
truck provided by Ferra Design, Brkln Navy Yard, NY

elderbery + stinging nettles DYE

cooked goose farm was cleaning out their freezers, and bags of 2007 elderberry and fresh cut stinging nettles were boiled to make 2 natural dyes, purple and smokey mint green.

mushroom farming