Cheese Boards!!
We’ve been making more and more cheese boards. The winter is the right time for us to get our inventory refilled. We are mainly using Black Walnut, Maple and Cherry wood. Every board is unique as look...
View ArticleEye Swoon
A few weeks ago I might had one of my most swoon-worthy experiences yet, at Westwind Orchard in upstate New York. I met Fabio Chizzola and Laura Ferrara one fortuitous day in Montauk (where everything...
View ArticleThe Chalk Board
THAT FARM LIFE: A DAY ON AN ORGANIC ORCHARD WITH ATHENA CALDRONE Take a moment to savor the season as we tour New York’s Westwind Orchard with one of our favorite bloggers… 11.6.13 | Suzanne Hall,...
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Holiday Gifts
We wish to thank you and our friends and families for supporting us and our farm. We had a lot of fun this season, and loved every minute of it! A farmer friend said to me “remember 2013, because we...
View ArticleRefinery 29
A few weeks ago, I had one of my most swoon-worthy experiences yet at Westwind Orchard in upstate New York. I met Fabio Chizzola and Laura Ferrara one fortuitous day in Montauk (where everything...
View ArticleThe Line
Westwind Orchard: A Modern Family Farm Fashion editor and stylist Laura Ferrara spends the week scouting, sourcing, and assembling the ingredients for stunning images. Her sharp eye shapes the look of...
View ArticleMaple Syrup
March is a busy time of year for our farm, even though it’s still cold. This particularly cold and harsh winter has left snow still blanketing the shadier fields. Ice patches coat the areas by the barn...
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Pastiera Napoletana
Why are eggs different colors? If you get eggs from us, you know that our flock lay different color eggs: brown, white, light blue and light green. Recently we talked to some NYC school children about...
View ArticleMay 2014 News
A day of rain is finally giving me some time to write what’s happening in the orchard. It’s been so much work planting our newbies while staying on top of our crops. Days start at 5:30 a.m. and never...
View ArticleWood fired pizza at Westwind!!
Westwind Orchard will be making and serving thin crust wood fired pizza every weekend. Chicco, the master pizzaiolo, has perfected nonna’s pizza dough recipe and used her secrets handed down through...
View ArticleConde Nast Traveler
Westwind Orchard is featured in the “20 Apple Picking Farms and Pumpkin Patches to Visit this Fall.” Read article here. Photograph by Jenny Westerhoff The post Conde Nast Traveler appeared first on...
View ArticleAnthropology Blog
An Apple a Week: Orchard Pizza Apples were never exactly the plan for stylist Laura Ferrara and her husband, fashion photographer Fabio Chizzola. They originally purchased their historic New York farm...
View ArticleFarm Dinner…Swoon-Preme!
Eye Swoon November 10, 2014 Sometimes I find myself wondering, who am I, really? Or, more specifically, what am I? I’ve learned that I can curate a beautiful room or tablescape and, though not trained...
View Article2015 Good Food Award
Westwind Orchard’s raw honey wins a 2015 Good Food Award By Julia Reischel January 19, 2015 Westwind Orchard, an organic farm in the Ulster County hamlet of Accord, has won a 2015 Good Food Award for...
View ArticleFood52
The next year, against all odds, with the help of Fabio’s newfound area of expertise and with the encouragement of his friend Mike, a local pomologist, the apples bore fruit. “We didnt think anything...
View ArticleApril 2016
Click here to read our April 2016 newsletter. If you would like to receive newsletters, please join our mailing list. The post April 2016 appeared first on Westwind Orchard - Organic Pick-Your-Own...
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Click here to read our May 2016 newsletter. If you would like to receive newsletters, please join our mailing list. The post May 2016 appeared first on Westwind Orchard - Organic Pick-Your-Own...
View ArticleNowness “Going up the Country”
Laura Ferrara and Fabio Chizzola share the spoils from their agrarian idyll “I respect farmers far too much to claim that I am one,” says veteran New York stylist Laura Ferrara. “At best, I aspire to...
View Article“At the Farm” by Garance Doré
My friend Laura, who is an amazing stylist (we worked together with Joan Smalls for Estée Lauder, and she’s also Senior Editor at Large for Glamour) had been making me dream about her farm upstate for...
View ArticleThe gastronomes
Is there any agricultural pursuit more easy to get carried away with romantic thoughts about than the orchard? Fruit trees are beautiful, mysterious and – at just the right time of year – brimming with...
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