Cornell Cooperative Extension has organized a phenomenal farm tour for visitors and locals alike. Family Farm Day, Saturday, August 26 from 10 am to 5 pm, provides a unique opportunity to visit farms in Delaware, Schoharie and Otsego counties. Family Farm Day allows guests to meet their farmers, get barn and farm tours, go on hay rides, witness demonstrations, and see what farming is really like. Seven farms in Delaware County will be participating and below is brief information about the farms in the Greater Delhi Area. Have a look and schedule your route to visit all of these fantastic farms. Engage with the interactive map to plan your route through Delaware County.
•PARTICIPATING FARMS IN THE GREATER DELHI AREA•
Images clockwise from top left: Birdsong Farm Community Garden, Burn Ayr Farm, Burn Ayr Farm Stand, Sunrise Mountain Orchard.
Birdsong Farm Community Garden
Carla Crim
(607) 746-3821
38480 State Highway 10, Delhi, NY
Facebook: Birdsong Farm Community Garden
Instagram: @birdsongfarm_communitygarden
Website: www.birdsongfarmny.com
Email: ceh27@cornell.edu
The Birdsong Farm Community Garden is designed to be accessible to gardeners of all ages and experience levels with raised beds and wide gravel pathways. Bio-intensive practices are utilized to grow the most amount of food in the least amount of space. Unlike allotment-style community gardens, participants work together and share in the harvest. Educators and Master Gardeners from Cornell Cooperative Extension oversee the day-to-day operations, and host educational events and work sessions. The garden is family friendly and is a great place for children (and adults) to get hands-on experience and gain a greater appreciation for food production.
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Brookside Maple and Farm
Matthew Scobie
607-746-6618
2544 County Highway 2 Delancey, NY
Facebook: Brookside Maple
Website: brooksidemapleandfarm.com
Email: Brooksidemaple@yahoo.com
Brookside Maple and Farm is family owned and operated, with a focus on quality maple syrup and maple products. We raise Hereford beef, Romney sheep, turkeys and pasture raised chickens. Yarn and dryer balls will be available.
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Burn Ayr Farm
Kevin and Kathy (Thomson) Sullivan
607-746-7287
21031 State Highway 28, Delhi, NY 13753
Facebook: Burn Ayr Farm
Instagram: @burnayrfarm
Website: www.burnayrfarm.com
Email: burnayrfarm@delhi.net
Burn Ayr Farm is a small multi-generational farm raising 100% grass-fed highland beef cattle and featuring local products in their seasonal farm store.
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Del-Rose Farm, The Hanselmans, The Farmer’s Wife Pies
Barbara Hanselman
607-538-9633
9635 County Highway 18, Bloomville, NY
Facebook: Del-Rose Farm
Email: farmerswife_00@yahoo.com
Del-Rose Farm is a proud dairy farm that also grows and sells sweet corn, tomatoes, and other vegetables. Barb Hanselman, The Farmer’s Wife, also bakes pies, sticky buns, and other treats for all to buy and enjoy. The farmers look forward to having you visit and see their cows and calves, the hay and corn growing in the field, the vegetables in the gardens, the tomatoes growing in the greenhouse, and a hayride to see the Delaware River! There will be some of The Farmer’s Wife baked goods to sample, sweet corn to taste, and lots of farm’s products available for purchase in our farm stand. Del-Rose Farm is a family farm producing great food for the community!
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Maplewood Farm & Orchard
Karen S. LaFever
607-746-6339
596 Miller Avenue, Bovina Center, NY
Facebook: Maplewood Farm Orchard
Website: www.maplewoodfarm.com
Email: maplewood@delhi.net
A family tradition begun in the 1920’s of making maple products continues into its fourth generation here in Bovina. Duane LaFever and sons Cody, Cullen and wife Karen, tap maple trees, utilizing approximately 1800 taps each winter at their maple farm along the pristine Bramley Mountain Brook. All the taps are gravity fed through a network of tubing into collection tanks inside the new sugar house. They produce golden, 100% pure maple syrup, maple candies and smooth-as-silk maple cream as well as many other delicious products. These other products include peppered maple mustard, maple apple pumpkin spread, gourmet maple coated nuts, maple cranberry almond granola, maple lollipops, maple cotton candy, maple popcorn, and oatmeal and buttermilk pancakes mixes.
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Sunrise Mountain Orchard
201-665-1985
1173 Sunrise Mountain Road, Bloomville, NY 13739
Facebook: Sunrise Mountain Orchard
Website: www.sunrisemountainorchard.com
Email: billc92644@gmail.com
Sunrise Mountain Orchard is located in Wright Brook Valley in the Western Catskills. It is a boutique apple orchard growing 24 varieties of eating and cider apples. The first 200 trees were planted by the previous owner in 2015, and after the property was acquired by Sunrise Mountain Orchard, they planted another 200 trees in two years. They are a low key and no pressure orchard. Apples are priced seasonally per bag. Bulk orders or apples, cider and honey can be arranged.