Crown Point Farm and Dairy

03/12/2023

Butter, buttermilk and Creme Fraiche (creamy, tangy gourmet sour cream). Also these wreaths. All grown here. 2 mixed greens, 2 cedar lavender, and 1 dried celosia. All available Spa City Farmers Market. Local friends, will post creations and ornaments throughout the week asi move through my dried flower stash. Stay tuned. Edited to share, we have a few wreaths available Lillie Valley Farm, Lillie Valley also has some beautiful traditional Balsam wreaths by Chelsea Loitsch

27/11/2023

Farm update: we rehomed our chickens to concentrate on the dairy to expand offerings. Being a small dairy that both produces products as well as milks our own cows, we have to streamline our time. So, all eggs sold in the store will come from right down the road at Dushane Farm. Free range and humanely raised. You can always tell quality eggs by the hardness of the shell and the deep yellow yolks. Happy Hens. Yes, I know not healthy to fry them but we use our own cultured butter, and a little goes a long way.

26/11/2023

What an amazing week of wreath making, I have the scratches and callouses to prove it. I thoroughly enjoyed making and designing each wreath. THANK YOU all for your support. THANK YOU Lillie Valley Farm for having faith in my wreath-making and carrying our wreaths. So, at this point since the dried florals and greens are limited to what we grow/harvest here, ALL CUSTOM ORDERS ARE CLOSED. We will be getting creative with any dried florals we have left, as well as some dusty miller that is drying. Keep posted here for individual wreaths and dried floral ornaments for the rest of the month.

24/11/2023

Wreaths heading to Lillie Valley Farm, all flowers grown and dried here on farm. All greens cut from our cedar trees and brought out of the woods with our horses. These wreaths are about as local as you can get and all handmade. The pink (Barbie) wreath is Gomphrena. Then we have purple Statice, red Gomphrena, Lavender (of course), white Statice, and white Gomphrena. Dried florals are a little delicate (so lay flat for transport) but will def last a while once hung up.

21/11/2023

Just in time for the Holidays! Ticonderoga Natural Foods Co-op will have more of these events, support local.

Charcuterie Class
We will be hosting a charcuterie class led by professional Chef Mike Tighe on Thursday, December 7th at 6pm at the Co-op.

Chef Mike will teach us the art of styling a board, pairing cheeses, meats and garnishes. He will provide a hands on learning experience while participants create their own charcuterie board.

Participants will leave with a new skill, their own masterpiece to take home and a discount coupon for co-op cheeses & charcuterie meats.

Class is limited to 10. Call or stop by to sign up! The class cost is $20 for Members $25 for Non-Members. A portion of the profit will go towards our employee holiday bonus fund!

18/11/2023

My favorite wreath so far, inspired by the green velvet ribbon I bought last year. One of a kind going to Saratoga tomorrow

13/11/2023

UPDATE: All preorders filled. Additional wreath creations will be available on farm and Lillie Valley Farm Small Business Saturday and onward. Will post as Evergreen Wreaths and Dried Flower ornaments are assembled.

Lavender Wreaths are sold out. Very overwhelmed with all the orders, thank you!!!! We will have Pink, Red, and White dried Gomphrena/Cedar/Pine wreaths. We make all wreaths after a few good frosts, that is what gets the juices flowing in the trees and helps them last. So, please use your imagination on the Gomphrena wreaths, pics of the dried florals below. If interested in a Gomphrena wreath, just let me know here or by message and specify color or Red, White or Pink.

Cedar/Pine Wreaths are available for Pre-order now and pick up Small Business Saturday 11/26, will also have a selection available at Lillie Valley Farm. These wreaths are foraged right here on property (with our horses), so are as fresh and long lasting as you can get. They are about 3 feet round, taking up an entire front door. Preorder $45, you can message me here on FB. B

08/11/2023

Buttermilk instead of half and half or cream in my button mushroom, tomato quiche. First time giving it a try, wow! Added a tangy sweetness, buttermilk is staple in all my quiches from now on. Will post when we have buttermilk in stock.

08/11/2023

Farm News: Dahlias are getting dug up for storage and tulips going in the ground. Florals are all harvested and drying. Due to my love of preserving dried florals and the fact that there are no dried flower farms in the area, we are expanding our farm to include a Wreath Shop in 2024. Yay! It will be a large addition off our dairy barn to dry all the flowers grown here on farm. We will have workshops right under all those dried florals.

Also Evergreen/Dried Floral Wreaths will be available for pre-order soon. Evergreens foraged here on farm and are done after a few frosts to preserve longevity.

30/10/2023

Just a public service announcement. We've been working diligently to get the farm store stocked up with goods and wares. We have cultured salted and unsalted butter and real buttermilk (not cultured milk). Creme fraiche is in stock as well which is a cultured sour cream and can be used as a substitute for anything you would use sour cream for. It's a little more tangy. We have eggs by the dozen, ground beef, and maple syrup from our friends and neighbors Will and Nichole Dushane. Dried floral wreaths and arrangements are beginning to show as we're catching up on harvesting and drying. Holiday evergreen wreaths are coming in November and we're taking orders for those as well as the dried floral wreaths. Everything is grown here on the farm. We still have pumpkins and they're priced at $1 a piece just to see them going to good loving homes. As usual, a giant "thank you" to all our dedicated, local supporters.

29/10/2023

Winter Update: We were planning on doing a Winter Market south of us (name withheld) but are saddened by the way we were treated. Stipulations like below can really hurt small farms. Sharing because we believe in what we do and choose to stay small from an environmental and animal welfare standpoint. We will do our best to continue to update our website, have on-farm store hours, work with other small farms and stores, and wholesale through the Essex Hub on the Hill. Will post product availability through winter until summer markets resume.

An example of the rules we were asked to endure up/above our application and booth fees.

We are only approved for certain dairy products and are prohibited from bringing our flowers. There are no other "dried" floral producers there. We are a dairy and dried flower farm. Our cows produce the fertilizer we use to grow all our beautiful florals. This is HALF our potential income that we are being asked to leave at home.

We are required to participate in a Work Share, which is an extra 2 hours at the market setting up for the entire market (not our booth). We are a small dairy that milks our own cows. The market did not disclose this on the application (fyi, application fee is non-refundable). This makes it impossible with our milking schedule and is unhealthy to the cows. There are dairies out there that do not milk and just have production or are large enough to have employees. The market admins were not open for questions, reply with generic responses to our email and have no phone contact number.

And, if we miss a market or "workshare" we are FINED, yes FINED $300 per event. Even if inclement weather and we cannot make it down, FINE $300.

21/10/2023

Butter, Creme Fraiche and Buttermilk all sold out this week, more available next weekend as we process this week. Guess, with the cooler weather, there is a lot of baking going on. All products can be preordered for pick up at farmstore here or Lillie Valley Farm 10/29. Sorry, updated to Sunday morning availability. Waiting on packaging.

15/10/2023

Pumpkins are out of the field and ready for adoption.

14/10/2023

Hello, someone left a baby bottle in the farmstore today. Please message me if yours and if ok to wash and leave it for you? Thank you.

10/10/2023

We will be at the Schroon Lake Farmers Market this weekend with dried florals,wreaths, pumpkins and of course butter,creme fraiche and buttermilk. If you want to snag these beauties beforehand, message me. Quantities are limited, $25 for the basket and $20 for the tin, come filled with flowers, wheat, and ornamental grasses, all grown here on our farm.

06/10/2023

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Wreath Class tomorrow 10/7. Address is 344 Hogback Rd in Crown Point, It is at 10AM. Mike will guide for parking and will take place in our large greenhouse. There is only one spot left if any last interest, just sign up online or message me.

01/10/2023

Good Morning, 4 Spaces left for 10/7 Dried Floral Wreath Class. Opened it up so you can assemble either the rustic (grapevine) or romantic (wire hoop). Also Ticonderoga Natural Foods Co-op members get 10% off (code: coop). Sign up below or just message me to hold your spot (can pay day of)

30/09/2023

Farm Store Closed today 9/30. We are Fort Ticonderoga Horse and Harvest Festival

26/09/2023

Anyone in the market for a really large Sweet Annie harvest wreath. 48 inches round. Good for a very large entrance or barn. Haha, kind of got carried away making this one. Need to trim the Sweet Annie down quite a bit for the next one.

26/09/2023

In partnership with Ticonderoga Natural Foods Co-op, we will be offering 10% off any wreath making classes (and all future classes) for Ticonderoga Co-Op members. Code is coop at checkout. Any Co-Op members that did not get the discount, please reach out and I will apply. Thanks!

26/09/2023

Good Morning! a few have asked if they can pay day of for the wreath classes. Certainly can, I just need a commitment to update attendance. Just message me on the FB site and I will update attendance. 6 spots left in both classes. Otherwise, credit card or pay in 4 is available on the website link.

25/09/2023

Workshops are live on the website. There are two available; Sat 10/7 and Sun 10/29. Two different styles, so please verify the correct one. Times are 10-12:30PM and there will be coffee/tea and some English scones, bread, butter (of course). Feel free to reach out with any questions. Limit 8 participants per workshop.

18/09/2023

Certain things give you the chills. Our farm has been a creamery since the late 1800s, and we feel the spirit of the Landrys quite often. They are the last generational family to farm this land. We found some of their breeding records and realized, nearly half the names they chose for their cows, we did for ours. Lucy, Star, Shirley, Butter, etc. And on top of it, they have Lucy crossed off, we lost our Lucy last winter.

11/09/2023

As promised. Posted to our youtube channel is our unheated hoophouse harvest; Statice, Gomphrena, and Celosia. We will be posting our wreath workshops for sign up in the next week or so. This will give you the chance to use locally grown and dried flowers to create wonderful wreaths. I GROW; YOU DESIGN

Statice: Colors Available are White, Yellow, Pink, Purple and Blues for Fall Wreaths

Growing Statice and when to harvest

10/09/2023

Wreath workshops will be posted soon. There will be 2 harvest in Oct and 2 evergreen in Nov. I wanted to share what was harvested today for drying which is gomphrena, statice, and hydrangeas. A video will follow on how to harvest and dry. Also are some air dried sunflowers versus Sunflower heads dried in silica.

08/09/2023

We are feeling grateful for all the local support. We had a mention by a renowned chef Carriage House Cooking School on NCPR. We produce the products, but Chef Curtis works the magic. Thank you for supporting small farms like ours. We had Lillie Valley Farm reach out and help us with a hay arrangement to get us through winter. We had Will DuShane at DuShane farm show up before it rains to help finish baling. And North Road Soap Co. lend us their trailer for hay transport. IT TAKES A VILLAGE!!!!! Thank you! I lived all over the country and this is the community I dreamed of.

30/08/2023

First video in a series of growing, harvesting and drying florals and fillers. Sweet Annie Harvest. Hoping all will dry in time for the Adirondack Harvest festival in September. We will also be posting our fall wreath making classes first week in September.

Artemisia Harvest