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BIG NEWS: We've "retired"...
After a tremendously drawn-out and gut-wrenching soul search over the winter of 2013/14, Cara and Luke have moved on from vegetable farming. It's a privileged pain to have a dream, to plan and slave and sacrifice for years, to achieve it in the face of steep odds... and then to wrestle with the reality that your dream has made you less happy, instead of more.
The truth is that as much as we love vegetable farming--and we do, or else this decision would be MUCH easier--we're finding ourselves unable to reconcile that passion to the life we want to live and the people we'd like to be--as individuals, as a couple, and--hopefully--as parents. However successful our efforts are, if at the end of the day we don’t feel positive about ourselves and the way we’re relating to the myriad things and people we care about... it’s just not worth it. This admission is no easier for the the fact that, due to a lot of hard work, extremely careful planning, solid advice, good luck, and the support of a tremendous community, the business side of this endeavor has been a resounding success.
As of Septemeber 2nd, 2014, the land that was Quincy Farm, and before that the Wright farm, will be owned by Dirt Capital Partners and farmed by Ejay and Kim Eisen of R’Eisen Shine Farm. Our CSA sites in Ballson Spa and Glens Falls have been taken over by our good friends (and excellent growers!) at Denison Farm. I’ll update the “our story” page shortly to fill in those details. Cara and Luke have moved down into the lower Hudson Valley, still involved in agriculture, but no longer actively farming.
You can read a slightly more in-depth explanation of our decision to move on here.
We look forward to maintaining the friendships and community we've built over these last years, even if we've moved on from the business that helped make those connections.
Thanks for your support--in the past and into the future--and for making us your farmers.
The truth is that as much as we love vegetable farming--and we do, or else this decision would be MUCH easier--we're finding ourselves unable to reconcile that passion to the life we want to live and the people we'd like to be--as individuals, as a couple, and--hopefully--as parents. However successful our efforts are, if at the end of the day we don’t feel positive about ourselves and the way we’re relating to the myriad things and people we care about... it’s just not worth it. This admission is no easier for the the fact that, due to a lot of hard work, extremely careful planning, solid advice, good luck, and the support of a tremendous community, the business side of this endeavor has been a resounding success.
As of Septemeber 2nd, 2014, the land that was Quincy Farm, and before that the Wright farm, will be owned by Dirt Capital Partners and farmed by Ejay and Kim Eisen of R’Eisen Shine Farm. Our CSA sites in Ballson Spa and Glens Falls have been taken over by our good friends (and excellent growers!) at Denison Farm. I’ll update the “our story” page shortly to fill in those details. Cara and Luke have moved down into the lower Hudson Valley, still involved in agriculture, but no longer actively farming.
You can read a slightly more in-depth explanation of our decision to move on here.
We look forward to maintaining the friendships and community we've built over these last years, even if we've moved on from the business that helped make those connections.
Thanks for your support--in the past and into the future--and for making us your farmers.
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