Blog Posts

  • A brief visit to look at plants and insects at Transgenerational Farm on 30 August 2024

    Transgenerational Farm is a very small market garden on approximately three leased acres adjacent to the hop yard of Arrowwood Farm. It is surrounded on three sides by forest. We were able to only visit briefly (2 hours) on 30 August 2024, and it was an overcast morning—hardly the ideal conditions to see many insects.…

  • Botanical Survey of Wild-growing Plants at the Hudson Valley Seed Company

    by Claudia (with Josie) On 6 September 2024, we spent ~ 4.5 hours documenting the wild-growing plants of a cross-section of habitats at the new site of the Hudson Valley Seed Company on Airport Road in Accord. The following image highlights the approximate route taken and numbers observation points we will refer to throughout the…

  • Botanical Observations from Rose Hill Farm

    by Claudia This blog shares some of the botanical observations made at Rose Hill Farm on 23 August 2024 during a 4 hour survey along the route indicated in sky blue in the aerial image below. The numbers indicate locations referenced throughout this blog posting. (Note that we shared habitat images from Rose Hill Farm…

  • The Birds of Rose Hill

    By Will Peruse any aerial photograph of the Hudson Valley from the 1960s and you will see field after field dotted with fruit trees, their neat rows show up as pointillist parcels in even the most blurry photos. There used to be a lot of commercial orchards in the Hudson Valley. Several successful commercial orchards…

  • The Birds of Blue Star

    By Will On June 12 I visited Blue Star Farm and documented breeding evidence for the following birds: Each section of Blue Star Farm contained unique habitats that hosted a variety of farm and edge-loving species of birds. Native shrubs such as Staghorn Sumac and large legacy Sugar Maples planted long ago shared space with…