Last week at Ginsberg’s 100th Anniversary we had a blow-out - what a great time. First, we met a host of local vendors, from O’Kenny’s Express in Valatie/Kinderhook - maker of some really nice pulled pork and pulled chicken - to Grandpa Pete’s sauces in Catskill to local farmers. We also joined Columbia County Bounty, a trade group promoting Columbia County (New York) agriculture and artisan products like ours.

Speaking of those, we sold out in two hours. Some of this was due to Nancy Ginsberg’s generous purchase of a slew of our products - ham and cheese, mushroom and cheese and plain croissants, plus some of our three-inch cheesecakes, the petits four and cheesesticks.

The only thing that didn’t go fast was the bread, but we’re thrilled about that - now we have a couple loaves for our house!

We also met up with a man we’ve been seeking for some time: out local sheeter and bakery supply repair place! He came by this week and was able to help out with the sheeter (we’re likely upgrading) and some other things.

We’re also very proud to announce two new customers, which I’ll do in a post tomorrow morning.

We’re truly happy that living up here in the sticks provides us with more than the usual opportunities for Community Supported Agriculture - that is, sharing the risk with local (in our case, mainly organic or biodynamic) farmers by buying a share of their harvest before the start of the season. This gives us two key advantages.

First, we get the very freshest fruits and vegetables all summer long, into the autumn. Second, Corinna’s gets to have the finest quality produce and fruits for our products.

To that end, we just bought two shares of the CSA at Threshold Farms, a local biodynamic orchard that does sensational apples, pears and peaches. We bought a third share for our family.

Threshold does three white peach varieties (raritan rose, White Hale and Bell of Georgia) and three yellow (Bisco, Harbrite and Red Haven). It also does Paulared, Gala, Cox Orange Pippin, Jonafree, Jonagold, Macoun, Liberty,  Golden Delicious, Fuji, Idared and Baldwin apples, and Clapps, Bartlett, Bosc and Comice pears.

For more information about Threshold, which doesn’t have its own website, visit their listing on greenPeople.org. We’ll write more about suppliers in the near future.