In the Lyme Light

Lying in the fetal position on a bed, sitting shirtless facing away from the camera, propped up nude atop a stool—photographer Jiatong Lu captures the subjects of her series Nowhere Land.

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Foxtrot Farm & Flowers

 It’s not easy to reach Kate Farrar during the growing season. Most days she’s out of the house by 6 am, tending to the numerous beds at Foxtrot Farm & Flowers in Stanfordville.

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Thistle Pass Farm

Now in its second year, Thistle Pass is flourishing; a successful plant sale in the spring, and local venues now offering its produce on their menus have left Brown “ecstatic and grateful.”

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In The Grove

Normally I don’t get too excited about eating at golf clubs. Country club food, as a general rule, tends to be reminiscent of the nursery, with a bland emphasis on burgers and equally unexotic fare. That, however, is not the case at The Grove Restaurant and Bar at the Red Hook Golf Club, a semi-private club near Hyde Park.

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Monica Gerard-Sharp

Gerard-Sharp is best described as a force of nature, with a storybook life complete with adversity, determination, creativity, and a bona fide Persian prince, her husband Ali Wambold.

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