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Melissa Madden

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Farmed & Foraged where welcome
🍎Apples, 🥚Eggs, 🦃Turkeys
🍾 PopUp Farm Bars: sober & boozy
👩‍🌾 Nature & Ag ed
🎈 FLX, Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ land

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Have you heard about HOT POT?!

NYC-based chef Natasha Pickowicz (and former Ithaca resident!) will be hosting a Chinese-style hot pot fundraiser for our Subsidized CSA program @stickandstonefarm

Guests will be treated to an opening reception with @openspacescider cocktails, music by @richie.stearns and snacks inspired by her cookbook Everyone Hot Pot, followed by a seated, communal, family-style feast highlighting the beautiful fall produce of the FLX, and so many other local food treasures. Hot pot is the interactive meal where no two experiences are alike: guests will be presented with an array of bite-sized morsels of uncooked food, like mushrooms, tofu, squash, leafy greens, herbs and noodles. Then, the guests will cook the bites of food themselves over a shared bubbling pot of flavorful, nourishing broth. There will be additional dishes to complement the soup, plus flavorful dipping sauces and cold beverages. For dessert, guests will be treated to a light, not-too-sweet array of fresh fruit.

It’s sure to be a one of a kind experience, we’d love to see you there!

Sunday 10/18 from 4-7pm in the greenhouse!

Tickets at link in bio.

100% of the nights profits will benefit Full Plate Farm Collective Subsidized CSA members.

#ithacany #flxfarmers #hotpot by @openspacescider

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5 days ago

Beautiful days in the crush of harvest. Love fueling the work and the resistance. As was said at a recent Sukkot I was honored to support via apples and pressing them- save the whales, love your elders, attend to history and free p@les+ine. The work continues, these are make it or break it days. by @openspacescider

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7 days ago

We’re so excited for these fall events coming up!

Natasha Pickowicz, NYC based chef and author of Everyone Hot Pot, is bringing her culinary delights to Stick and Stone Farm for a farm fresh Chinese style hot pot experience, full of local ingredients and paired with local beverages.

Sunday October 18th at @stickandstonefarm

And our annual harvest pairing at Remembrance Farm will bring together Remembrance Farm cheeses, wine pairings from @damianiwinecellars, and a special pairing menu crafted by chefs Jen Stan of @hereinhector and @just.a.taste.ithaca

Sunday, October 25th at Remembrance Farm

100% of event profits will support subsidies for folks in our community seeking support to access CSA shares, and all the fresh local organic produce, and community that comes with them.

Get tickets on our website today! Link in bio

Community support makes it all possible. Big huge thank yous to @openspacescider @rednewtcellars @hereinhector @just.a.taste.ithaca @damianiwinecellars @greenstar_coop @ithacasoy @high_ground_gardens @stickandstonefarm @richie.stearns, Tree Gate Farm, Three Stone Farm, Remembrance Farm for helping make these events happen!

EDIT: The support keeps rolling in! Thank you also to @autumnsharvestfarm @foodandferments @cafe_dewitt @wellspringforestfarm taken in Ithaca, New York by @openspacescider

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11 days ago

Juuuuuice!
(Press it wIth Melissa. BYO apples or use @openspacescider 's. BYO container if you can

Dyeeeee!
(Fiber dyeing with apple pommace courtesy of @lunafiberstudio and Sarah's very excellent expertise)

SUNDAY
OCT 4
2- 5PM
at @tburgfarmersmkt

Thank you @amy.bountiful.beauty and Town of Ulysses for organizing us!
Registration beforehand or onsite!
QR code in poster!

Also, very much in love with Field Song for a work rhythm among other fabulous music by @monroviaboy taken in Trumansburg Farmers Market by @openspacescider

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12 days ago

This Wednesday is the last farm to Food Truck of the season, and it’s going to be great!

Wednesday 9/30 from 4-7pm @stickandstonefarm

@stonebendfarm is bringing a fun new menu
House hummus W/ seasonal relishes (red pepper ezme, pickle relish, etc), Twice fired carrots w chimi, Green salad w house dressings, Lamb & beef kebab w/ Arugula/ yogurt / chives/ herbs, House foccacia w/ Butter add ons, Cookies, maybe more?!

@openspacescider Sober/Boozy Bar brining together the best of FLX beverages, plus a featured mocktail/cocktail

Live Music by Crooked Square (5-7pm)
Southern old-time swing band featuring Jerone Gagliano - fiddle, Lloyd Graves - banjo, Valerie Graves - guitar, Molly Kornblum- upright bass

@mazlabseeds Pepper Roast and Squash Talk
Come roast some peppers and nerd out about cool plants and delicious food with guests from Cornell’s Maz Lab.

Matt’s Magic! (5-7pm) - “Matt’s magic will blow your mind. Kids love it, but adults can’t stop talking about it. If you haven’t seen a professional “close-up” magician before, this is your chance. Matt does things with cards, coins, and rope that make the impossible happen right in your hands. Matt will be wandering through the crowd, giving you your own private show. Be sure to call him over to see some magic! Give a follow at @jarman.magic”

✨ as always in support of our subsidized CSA program ✨ taken in Stick and Stone Farm by @openspacescider

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15 days ago

Moody morning before the nor'easter, dinos don't care. These sounds- chirps, squeaks, tickles- are their joy in discovery of new pasture. They're the best. A balm. Rinse and repeat. taken in Open Spaces Cider by @openspacescider

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16 days ago

Where what who when why?
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Newfield.
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Harvest.
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Us.
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Now, last week, all fall.
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Ephemeral. by @openspacescider

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a month ago

Friends, fwends, friends!
👭
The time is nigh and now is the time. We harvested Akane this week, some Pristine a few weeks ago.
Good gawd, I do love Akane, with its brilliant red skin and crisp, delicate flesh.
YOU can have some too! CSA announcement!
🍎
The whole deal is truly hopeful and simultaneously ominous... now we find out re: the effing around.
🤷‍♀️
Did we succeed with all that management and input?
At last count, we're in for one organic spray per week, March 30 into July.
900-1200 gal at a pop. Tractor towing dragon-headed sprayer, battling the fungus amongst us. And the moths and the maggot flies. The curculio and the mites.
🤪
Wtf is this thing we do, us who love nature so?
Trying to keep leaves on trees til frost, at a minimum.
Produce tasty, heathy, sizable, and even beautiful fruit when possible.
🍏
Can we get it harvested before wind, hail, deer and time take it?
Do we have storage to cool it and members to eat it?
Can we get it there?
🫂
Which varieties did well with the dragon-headed management?
Which are best for what and when, why do we even grow them, who is in charge here anyway?
👩‍👧‍👧
Want to dive in?
Do you desire a share of this harvest?
Imagine fruit arriving to you every week, accompanied by updates on the what/why/how of these apples. Possibly with typos and increasingly unhinged insights delivered via aching arms. If possible, all this from a momentarily satisfied mind.
💚
Please consider joining my weekly Ithaca/Danby/Tburg/Freeville CSA (biweekly for Preble).
🛻
Link in bio, this is the crew, we'd love to have you. by @openspacescider

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a month ago

It’s that time again! Our monthly farm fundraiser is coming up this Weds. 8/26 4-7pm @stickandstonefarm!

We’re excited to have…
🍽️ food from @jojocookflx
🥃 sober and boozy drink menu by @openspacescider
🎶 music by the beloved Lloyds Boys

As always, a portion of all sales from the evening will support subsidized CSA shares for folks in our community 🩷 all are welcome

Bonus! @mazlabseeds and @ny_squash_n_chili_man will be here talking squash and pepper breeding at Cornell. Come nerd out about plants and veggies with us and have some delicious food and drink for a cause. Hope to see you there!

#fullplatefarmcollective #ithacany #communitysupported by @openspacescider

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

These sweet sparklets arrived just before the deluge.

Im brooding them on grass because, August. And other sidweays ideas.
(🦝)

They are 100% fine and awesome.

I'm making them a playlist comprised of every song about being born in a storm, or other weather related childhood memory. Got a favorite to share?

Soon enough, they'll be their full turkey selves and you'll hear from me on another topic.

For now, these dinos embark on the adventure of discovery that is young life, to this and other tunes. taken in Open Spaces Cider by @openspacescider

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2 months ago

Hello hello!
Hoping you will come out to @stickandstonefarm ...
TODAY
4 - 7 pm
...for our monthly @fullplatefarmcollective Farm to Food Truck party & fundraiser!

@van_noble_farm posted their menu a few days ago, looks amazing!

I'll be serving up a cucumber fresca for mocktails and cocktails, alongside cider from @redbyrdcider , beer from @liquidstatebeer , wine from @vagabondwinesflx and spirits from @pollinator.spirits

Huzzah y'all by @openspacescider

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