Neversink Farm lies at the base of The Neversink River Valley. This river bottom farm land is rich and fertile Otisville Sandy Loam and perfect for growing mixed vegetables. The Neversink River flowing through the middle of the farm is a model of healthy unspoiled rivers not only in this highly protected NYC watershed but across the country.  We use gravity fed spring water to irrigate the crops which we test biannually. In these ideal conditions we grow a wide variety of organic produce.

Vegetables and Fruits

We grow and sell more than 75 types of fruits and vegetables. All of our vegetables are grown from seed here on the farm. This way we can control everything that is fed to our plants throughout their lives, and we can limit our off-farm dependencies. The seed we purchase is mostly from farmer’s cooperatives and never, with our knowledge, sourced from any Monsanto owned companies. Our seed is always non-gmo.  We raise our produce without chemicals or pesticides and practice sustainable farming methods. Planting, cultivating, and harvesting is all done by hand. Machinery is only used for primary tillage and potato harvesting. We also sell our own organic vegetable and herb transplants in the spring at our farm stand and local farmers markets.  

Produce Availability

Honey

We are very committed to keeping our bees naturally. We never use any chemicals to treat our bees, even though organic standards allow for the use of chemicals such as Terramycin. We use essential oils like wintergreen and thyme, and sometimes organic powdered sugar in our treatments. We give additional feed only when it is required for healthy bees and never during the honey flow. The feed we give them is organic evaporated cane juice or honey as opposed to corn syrup which is what is commonly fed to bees. We are also lucky to be in the part of the Catskills where there is no commercial farming so our bees do not have the likelihood of running into pesticides during their foraging. After extraction we do not boil or finely filter our honey. It takes much work to produce honey this way but we believe our honey to be of the highest quality available. Bee products in addition to honey that we sell are propolis and pollen. Honey is seasonal and we extract during the fall. We begin taking reservations for honey three weeks before extraction.

The next extract date will be mid to late September.