About Quincy Farm
Quincy Farm is a smallish vegetable farm run by Luke Deikis and Cara
Fraver in Easton, NY. We use organic methods to grow a wide variety of
the most delicious veggies ever, strengthening our community and improving the health of our little piece of ground with each passing season. We choose the best-tasting varieties possible, from unusual exotic veggies to old favorites, because our customers and CSA members deserve it. Our produce is distributed to our CSA members in Ballston Spa, and also sold at several great farmers
markets in the northern capital region. For 2013, we're excited to expand our CSA connections to include a distribution here at the farm, as well as in nearby Malta. We mostly produce in spring, summer, and fall, but we also sell winter crops and greens through the cold months.
The farm is a hair under 50 acres, over 30 of which are classified as Prime soils, made up mostly of silt loams. We're strong believers in improving the health of our soil, not just because we think it's smart business, but because we feel it's a moral obligation for all landowners. As a result, we put half of our vegetable ground into year-long cover crops every season, chosen carefully to help build soil structure and foster healthy life.
About 3/4 of the farm lies in the fertile river-bottom flats along the Hudson, while the farmstead and early fields are up high. With waterfront, wetlands, fields, and woods, we're blessed with an amazing array of plant and wildlife species. Though our farm has nearly 1,500 feet of frontage on the Hudson River (directly across from the Saratoga Battlefield), we also have a spring-fed pond right in the middle of the farm that makes for a clean and reliable irrigation source. Sometimes all that wildlife makes our job harder (deer love almost everything we grow, songbirds decimate sweet corn, and snapping turtles sometimes destroy our mulched beds as nests!) but we generally consider ourselves lucky to be here.
We're also extremely proud that our farm is protected by an agricultural easement held by the Agricultural Stewardship Association in nearby Greenwich, which ensures it will forever remain viable farmland. Click below if you want to know more of our backstory, or the history of this very special piece of farmland.
Thanks for reading, and we look forward to growing for you!
The farm is a hair under 50 acres, over 30 of which are classified as Prime soils, made up mostly of silt loams. We're strong believers in improving the health of our soil, not just because we think it's smart business, but because we feel it's a moral obligation for all landowners. As a result, we put half of our vegetable ground into year-long cover crops every season, chosen carefully to help build soil structure and foster healthy life.
About 3/4 of the farm lies in the fertile river-bottom flats along the Hudson, while the farmstead and early fields are up high. With waterfront, wetlands, fields, and woods, we're blessed with an amazing array of plant and wildlife species. Though our farm has nearly 1,500 feet of frontage on the Hudson River (directly across from the Saratoga Battlefield), we also have a spring-fed pond right in the middle of the farm that makes for a clean and reliable irrigation source. Sometimes all that wildlife makes our job harder (deer love almost everything we grow, songbirds decimate sweet corn, and snapping turtles sometimes destroy our mulched beds as nests!) but we generally consider ourselves lucky to be here.
We're also extremely proud that our farm is protected by an agricultural easement held by the Agricultural Stewardship Association in nearby Greenwich, which ensures it will forever remain viable farmland. Click below if you want to know more of our backstory, or the history of this very special piece of farmland.
Thanks for reading, and we look forward to growing for you!
Meet the farmers
Luke Deikis and Cara Fraver, 2011
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History of the land
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QuincyFarm@gmail.com
(518)290-0296 (you must dial 518 first!) |
5 Wrights Rd
Schaghticoke, NY 12154 |
