As the weather continues to warm, field crop season is beginning to hit full stride across the Valley, and Maureen Dempsey is battling to keep up.
“We’re very behind this year on growing veggies because we’ve been so busy with plant sales,” Dempsey explained recently.
Dempsey runs Intervale Farm in Westhampton with her husband, Rick Tracy. The couple produce a wide variety of vegetables and cut flowers, raise laying hens, have a flock of sheep, and grow plant starts.
The pair began selling plant starts at their farm stand the third week of April. The plants have been flying off the shelf at a breakneck pace ever since.
“I’ve never seen a year like this with people who want to buy plants for gardening,” Dempsey said. “People are thinking they want to garden because they’re not going to be able to travel this summer.”
