Other crops harvested in the fall at both TAProots Farm and our Florida Home are nuts. In Upstate New York, we harvest Carpathian...

As the stone fruit crop (peaches, nectarines) wanes, the pome fruit take center stage. For many years, almost all of this harvest were...

TAProots Farm’s soil leaves much to be desired, as it consists of heavy clay, which turns to sticky mud when wet and rock solid when dry,...

TAProots Farm has tried to grow GOURDS for the last three years on a 75 foot trellis built over a large collection of well-rotted horse...

The harvest season is at its peak and many TAProots DELICACIES are enjoyed by family and friends. Of course the first delicacies of note...

Late August at TAProots Farm means BLACKBERRY picking and eating. We currently grow five varieties, selected for ripening time to extend...

The Keuka Lakehouse enjoys a milder, moist lakeside climate which fosters the flowers in Nonny’s garden, and all sorts of SLUGS, many of...

The TAProots Farm’s orchards include a block of STONE FRUIT trees to the east of the graveyard, whose trees protect the fruit trees from...

CRITTER CONTROL is a constant activity at TAProots Farm, due to the populations of songbirds, wild turkeys, red foxes, woodchucks,...

WATERWORK. Keuka Lake stretches north to south with steep slopes on its shores. Our Lakehouse on Keuka Bluff is no exception, resulting...

The TAProots vineyard continues to grow, with now four types of grapevines to look after. MIDSUMMER GRAPES require a variety of tasks,...

The Keuka Lakehouse is built on a hillside which allowed us to have a wall built from local shale (full of fossils) to backfill with soil...

Our arrival to our Keuka Lake house and TAProots farm in late June does not provide much time before harvesting to begin, as the red and...

We have relocated to our Keuka Lakehouse and TAProots Farm and were immediately faced with a new challenge: an enormous GYPSY MOTH...

The Florida Garden has finished providing us with blueberries and peaches, and the citrus and persimmon trees are heavy with green fruit....

The tropical summer has arrived in Gainesville with hot, humid days, punctuated with afternoon showers. This has forced even the late...

One plant that truly identifies the Florida garden as subtropical is the SAGO PALM. Of course, sago palms are really not palms at all,...

An unusual addition to our Florida garden is a small planter filled with INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. I purchased these plants at the spring...

The need to visit TAProots Farm in early May includes pruning and fertilizing the established vines, shrubs, and trees, but mainly...

The middle of May is an important time to initiate the year’s growing season at TAProots farm, as the weather quickly can turn from rainy...