![]() ![]() If you want award-winning cheese, milk, or hearty homemade bread, there are small-batch bakers and cheese-mongers within a short drive. Around here, if you’d like (truly) free-range eggs with bright orange, sweet and creamy yolks, you don’t have to go far to find a neighbor with chickens. We’re in maker country here in the Catskills and the food is delicious. Stone Ridge Orchard in Stone Ridge has a farmstead and a farm bar with pizza, cider, NYS beers and wine tastings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wright’s Farm in Gardiner were open last weekend and they are dog-friendly. Check their website for their apple picking update. JL Orchards in New Paltz still had apples to pick this past weekend. Some farms in the Hudson Valley still operate if you pre-book an appointment, or their farm stands are open. Call ahead first to see if farms are open. If you’re still looking for outdoor dating ideas, you’re not going to get anything more romantic than disappearing amidst the rows of low-rising fruit trees, especially as the temperatures are still hovering around 60F until Saturday – the forecast calls for 70F on Thursday. Wightman’s charge $15 for a peck of apples, $25 for the honey crisp. The apples are larger than usual, crisp and juicy. Wightman’s have an historic, 150-year-old tree called The King of Tomkins (pictured above) that is still full of fruit. If they close this week, you can still pick apples from their cooler and put cash in the box. Wightman Fruit Farms say that they’re closed on their Instagram account, but we found them open for picking yesterday from their small selection of heirloom apples and grapes. If you’re in love with a book nerd, spend all afternoon in the Golden Notebook, then treat yourself to dinner (the fabulous Cucina is open all week) or ice-cream at Sweet Dreams, which is open all week. Woodstock is the quintessential Catskills town through which every local should take an early evening stroll at least once a year for the sheer romance alone. Technically, there may be only two: The Golden Notebook in Woodstock (open all week). It’s my goal to read all the books and one day have a book barn and reading room, but until then I would recommend a book tour of the Catskills.Īlthough there are book sellers, there are very few book stores within the boundary of Catskill Park, in the midst of the mountains where Upstate Dispatch is based (the so-called “blue line”), our side of the Hudson River. I know at least one person who credits his imagination to a love of books in his early life. Last week, I joked with a friend that one day books might be obsolete because they provide only words, not video: your imagination must provide the rest. Wherever I have travelled, I have always bought a couple of books from the local used bookstore, and I always leave a book in my hotel room or rental. I’m used to getting on planes and escaping whenever I feel like it, but as a writer, I also know we can travel through books. For a frequent, avid traveller this is something of a record. I’ve been in the Catskills for 18 months, leaving once or twice on occasion, but only for a few hours. Urbanski – Usage prohibited without consent ![]()
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