Save the date! The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County's Annual Spring Plant Sale is Friday, May 19! Find us at the Ithaca Farmers Market Pavilion from 12-6 PM!

It's that time of year again! We have a handful of our bare root dwarf and semi-dwarf apple trees for sale! $30/each. Pickup is this Saturday, April 8 at the Ithaca Farmers Market, or at our new farm in Willseyville, NY. Send us an email if you'd like to purchase trees: svangaasbeck@gmail.com

It's hard to believe it's already February! It's almost pruning season on the farm! After a few years of taking care of two orchards (one in Brooktondale and one in Willseyville), we are finally settled into our new place, and have only one orchard to tend. We haven't started pruning yet, but wi...

You can now purchase our seed garlic in one pound or two pound  quantities! Here are our garlic planting tips.   Under the Tree Farm’s Garlic Planting Tips: Plant your garlic in fall, just like a tulip or daffodil bulb! In the Finger Lakes Region of NY (we’re in Zone 5b), we plant our garlic the...

We just listed our farm-grown garlic, delivered to your door! You can purchase one pound or two pounds. This variety of this garlic is "German Extra Hardy", often referred to as "Music", or "German White".  Perfect for eating OR planting! 4-6 gigantic cloves per head with a delicious, spicy fl...

  It's mid-June, which means it's garlic scape season and will soon be time to pull in our garlic harvest! The garlic scapes are a curly stalk the plant sends up right before the summer solstice in our area. If you let them grow, they get quite tall and will have miniature little garlic cloves (...

Wow, what a whirlwind of a spring! It was a relatively cool, wet spring, but a couple of weeks of 80+ degree, sunny days caused the orchard to bloom and the woods to leaf out within days! Our apple trees went from tight cluster to petal fall within a week.  Here is this year's progression of spri...

We grew willow before I ever even considered using it to weave a basket. A handful of years ago, when I spent a summer growing cut flowers in addition to our fruit, we planted decorative willow purchased from  Vermont Willow Nursery. Curly red willow, fasciated willow, a few varieties of very lar...

And that's a wrap! Just like that, it's mid-November, and we have finished harvesting our fruit for the year. We just closed our farm stand, and are grateful for everyone who has supported our farm this season!  We had the best pear crop ever this year, especially our Bosc and Asian Pears. It h...