"Figging Around" at Dancing Bear Farm
Recorder Food Writer Tinky Weisblat talks with Tom Ashley and Trish Crapo about figs
Recorder staff photo
by Tinky Weisblat
The harvest season is over in Franklin County — although local produce still abounds: apples, cabbages, garlic, beets. At this time of year, farmers have the mental and physical energy to plan for next year. Best of all, they find time to dream.
At Dancing Bear Farm in Leyden, Tom Ashley and his wife, The Recorder’s own Trish Crapo, are dreaming of something they will call the “figtorium.”
The figtorium will be a greenhouse designed to accommodate Ashley’s growing fig business. Dancing Bear Farm has been in business for 25 years, but Ashley grew his first figs just eight years ago.
When I spoke recently with the couple, Ashley explained that his love of figs began in the fall of 2008. He was inspired by a longtime customer named Marie.
Read the full article here: https://www.recorder.com/Weisblat-food-column-corrected-6867980
first published 12/13/2016
Posted: to Dancing Bear News on Tue, Dec 13, 2016
Updated: Tue, Jan 14, 2020