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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 a little while.
“Come up and see us!!!” she kept saying.
So that’s what I did on Sunday and it was amazing.
Not only do Laura, her husband Fabio, and her son Matteo, have a real farm with chickens, vegetable fields, apple trees, honey bees, tractors, and well, pretty much everything – they are also making a little paradise out of it that people can go visit – even if you don’t know them.
What’s incredible is that the farm is kind of a project they fell into while they were looking for a house Upstate. They got really into it and started cleaning it up and planting, and today it’s become their passion project when they aren’t in New York working in fashion (Fabio is a photographer).
But it actually fits perfectly with Laura’s vision – to her, style goes beyond fashion – it’s how one lives their life and energy and the environment we create around us. I totally agree with her…
And because this is such a great project, people gather around it. Their friends Paola and Chicco make pizzas with vegetables from the farm on weekends. This weekend was so cool; Fabio’s mother baked, Laura’s mother was also visiting, everyone was speaking Italian – it was kind of paradise. You can have lunch there, eat an ice cream, pick raspberries and blackberries, meet lots of people, kids are running around everywhere, and you can take lots of organic goodies home with you.
If you’re in the area this season, go for it! It’s two hours away from New York, the drive is gorgeous, it’s the perfect season, everyone is so welcoming and the pizzas are to die for.
It’s exactly what I needed before taking off for Paris Fashion Week.
Translated by Andrea Perdue
Westwind Orchard, 215 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord, New York 12404 / 845.626.0659
The farm is open Saturday and Sunday, 10am-6pm. Pizza is served from 12pm-6pm.
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it all looks so inviting! :)
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there are so many places in NY like this! I definitely wanna check it out
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Oh my, this is my dream! I keep telling my husband that we should go and live on a farm. Making pizza outsite, that golden light, tons of animals…Sigh.
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this is our dream too! my husband dreams to have a farm, well me too but i know i can’t leave the city life behind just yet. so nothing is better than this!
Amazing pictures! I love spending some time away from the city and all the pollution and it’s always incredible. Even during a weekend, it’s a perfect and quiet way to take a break. x
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Stunning shoots… in an over-crowded fashion month, it’s a wonderful place to rest!
XOX, Gap.
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Thank you for this great address i will definitely check this first weekend after Paris fashion show..and Garance hope to see you in between shows…we can finally have a cafe and croissant in Paris :)
bisou bisou
Yael Guetta
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Gotta try the pizzas!
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Perfect light for this food!
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Magnifique. Et la lumière que tu as choisi pour faire ces photos est encore plus magnifique. J’ai un jardin en ville, derrière l’appartement de mon copain, et quand on s’y met, ça me donne envie de m’éloigner un peu de la ville et d’avoir un immense potager. Mais je réussi à marier les 2 mondes en restant bien ancrée en ville avec un jardin potager! Lorsque je retournerai à NY je ferai un tour!
Looks absolutely lovely!
I dig the down to earth vibe it has. Often ‘rustic’ things are stylized beyond perfection which I think kinda defeats the purpose. This looks more real – or at least that’s the vibe I get from the photos :)
Have fun in Paris!
In love , this place are lovely total !
This pics are wonderfull a lot
kisses and hugs
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Très joli post Garance. J’adore les photos, surtout la dernière, tellement “real” :)
Lovely and nice pics!
Passa a trovarmi VeryFP
J’adore cette idée, c’est le rêve ! rat des villes la semaine et rat des champs le week-end ! super ! :)
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Thanks, Garance. I am definitely going to visit the farm in October. You always come up with such nice surprises on your blog! I love it.
Good for them! My husband has an organic farm and let me tell you — it’s a LOT of work! You have to LOVE it… and anything we can do to support healthy, local food is good for us and good for the planet. Way to go!
“L’énergie et l’environnement qu’on crée autour de soi” j’adore cette vision du style et … de la vie engénéral!
Le rêve ! je note pour mon prochain trip upstate. Cette région est vraiment magnifique, j’y vais souvent !
Mon dernier trip : http://www.curiosites-futilites-new-york.com/2014/08/week-end-estival-dans-la-campagne-new.html
J’adore la photo de la femme accoudee “au zinc” avec son bun, sa mariniere et ses clogs.
Belle atmosphere.
Nous on a L’amour est dans le pré en France si ça vous dit vraiment ! Y’a des tas de fermiers célibataires qui cherchent une femme pour charier le fumier et le crottin, nourrir les chèvres et inséminer les vaches et des 5 heures du mat, 7 jours sur 7. Ça va être super amazing et stunning !
Enfin moi j’y suis déjà et je cherche un(e) palefrenier(e) si ça dit à quelqu’un… Garance transmettra.
Superbe projet, dans un lieu, au vu de tes photos, qui donne vraiment envie! On a envie de s’y précipiter! Un peu loin de Paris mais je me le note, merci de partager avec nous Garance!
Et bonne fashion week parisienne!!
J’adore! Après, il faut voir ce que ça donne le 1er février…
Lovely! Brings back fond memories of my years of living in the country just outside of Rhinebeck, while working in PR for the CIA (The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park -:). Best job in world entertaining food and wine press of the early days’ foodie and wine crowd at The Escoffier Room. Hey, someone had to do it! Ahh, I’m hungry! I’ll have one of those yummy, gorgeous pizza’s ….now. Do you think they deliver to the South Pacific?
On another compelling note….how ’bout that mysterious, angelic gorgeous “light orb….and it’s pink off shoot” next to the darling barn in your next to last lovely photo??? A foodie angel, I presume! Mysterious and beautiful!
Heavenly!
Mahalo
Yum! Sounds amazing!
This must be THE life! I can imagine nothing better than a no makeup day, sunny autumn weather, family cooking and reading as the sun goes down (crackling of fireplace welcomed but optional). I sometimes wonder if it’s a modern day idyll or if it’s actually feasible. People like Laura prove the former.
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Je me demande toujours où les gens vont puiser cette énergie pour être sur tous les fronts en même temps ! C’est génial !
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Ze life ! Yessssss ! Plus la peine de postuler pour le job de palefreniere. J’ai trouvé quelqu’un :)
En effet : pas de make-up mais de la boue jusque dans les pompes, des pluies torrentielles d’automne , juste le temps pour un sandwich et une pomme à midi, et des courbatures dans des recoins de son corps dont elle ignorait l’existence il y a quelques jours encore.
Et vous savez quoi ? Avant elle était… VENDEUSE CHEZ ZARA ! Ça ne s’invente pas. Mais elle s’accroche.
Super amazing non ?
Si elle fuit, je vous remets l’annonce ;)
My dream! To have my own farm <3 With a cute family in it and loving friends.
That jumpsuit is perfect. Its loose, but flattering. Not droopy.
Bon ben elle aura tenu 3 semaines à la Farm la choupinette de chez Zara, avant de se faire une maxi tendinite et de jeter l’éponge ;) On a recruté une ancienne routière en reconversion. Elle tiendra mieux le choc de l’amazing life à la farm je pense…