Coming Soon
Orchard
Fruit trees for fresh-picked apples and more — a pick-your-own orchard taking root for the years ahead.
From Our Fields
What We Grow
Sweet corn, sunflowers, pumpkins, garden vegetables, and food plots for the wildlife — all on healthy, no-till ground.
Super Sweet Corn
Super sweet corn, all season long
Our super sweet corn is the heart of the farm stand — tender, sugary ears that taste like summer itself. To stretch the season, we put in three successive plantings spaced about a week apart, so the harvest ladders out from late summer into early fall instead of arriving all at once.
It's planted right into the living clover with a narrow strip cleared for each row — no plowing required.
3 successive plantings
Harvest late summer
No-till planted
Sunflowers
A field of gold
Our tall heirloom sunflowers turn the back fields into a wall of gold by late summer. We grow them for cut blooms and for their seed — and because they're an open-pollinated heirloom, we save seed from the best heads each year to plant again the next.
Bees and birds love them as much as we do, which is exactly the point of a farm like ours.
Heirloom variety
Seed saved for next year
Pollinator-friendly
Pumpkins
Pumpkins for the patch
Big, handsome pumpkins grow on the east ground all summer and come ripe in early fall — just in time for the porch, the pie, and the pumpkin patch. Like our sunflowers, they're open-pollinated, so we save seed from the best fruit for the following season.
Early-fall harvest
Open-pollinated
Seed saved for next year
Gardens
Garden vegetables — ours and Mama's
Tucked beside the fields are our raised-bed vegetable gardens — eight tidy beds that keep the family table full. From spring greens to summer tomatoes, this is where we grow the everyday fresh vegetables that don't need acres, just care.
The raised beds get the same soil-first treatment as the fields: build the soil, feed it organic matter, and let it do the work.
For the Wildlife
Deer food plots
Not every acre is for us. We keep dedicated food plots along the wooded edges for the deer and wildlife that share this land. It's part of being good stewards of the whole property — crops for the family, cover and forage for the wild neighbors, and healthy ground for both.
Wildlife habitat
Wooded edges
Whole-land stewardship
Clover
The crop beneath every crop
White clover is the quiet workhorse of Tompkins Farm. It's the living mulch our other crops are planted into — a green carpet that feeds the soil with natural nitrogen, shades out weeds, holds moisture, and keeps the ground covered all season long.
It also feeds our pollinators and the wildlife, and it's the reason we can grow the way we do with so little spray. Healthy clover, healthy soil, healthy food — it all starts here.
Living mulch
Natural nitrogen
Pollinator forage
Putting Down Roots
Coming to the farm
A farm is never finished. Here's what we're planting and building for the seasons ahead — the next chapters of Tompkins Farm & Land.
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Vineyard
Rows of grapevines on the trellis — table grapes off the vine and a little something for the future.
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Christmas Trees
Evergreens planted today for cut-your-own Christmas trees down the road — a family tradition in the making.
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Honey Bees
Hives for fresh honey and busy pollinators — a natural fit for a farm built on clover and bloom.
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Field Tomatoes
Vine-ripened field tomatoes for the farm stand and the canning jar — summer flavor by the basketful.
Coming Soon
Peppers
Sweet and hot peppers in every color — fresh off the plant for the table, the grill, and the salsa bowl.
Through the Season
From ground prep to harvest
Garden prep
Beds built and soil readied with organic matter before a single seed goes in.
Crop planting
Seed drilled straight into living clover, laddered out across the planting windows.
Fall harvest
Corn, sunflowers, and pumpkins come in from late summer through fall — and we save seed from our sunflowers and pumpkins for next year.
Hungry yet?
See how our harvest makes it from the field to the family table.