for $15/class, which includes coffee and a donut. Offered every Saturday in the summer among the apple trees from 9:30 a.m.
Yoga at the Farm is another great addition. There is an outdoor patio sitting area where they also host live music seasonally on Saturdays. The Tasting Room is stocked with a wide array of New York State craft beer and spirits including wine, mead and whiskey. The Covino family continues these traditions and continue to add more: Families have fond memories of pumpkin picking, apple cider and friendly faces. Generations of children have been coming to the orchards for hayrides, visiting the farm animals, apple picking, and apple cider donuts. Connecting with the Earth and at the same time to the people that you’re feeding is a big responsibility.” Farm manager Kevin Covino’s “passion and devotion to the fruit trees and vegetable crops is inspiring and really motivates the family and staff to work hard and love what they do.” Kevin is well known on the farm for his patience and ability to face the challenges of farming ( often insects, disease and weather) with optimism and creative solutions. “Local farming creates a great sense of community”, says Christine, “and we love what we do. All cider production takes place at Harvest Moon from the careful planting of new trees (4,000 already) to hand bottling, capping and labeling.
They envision great growth and opportunity for all area producers. The Hudson Valley is a hotbed for hard cider and the Covino’s are very much a part of the scene. Christine’s sister is webmaster and handles marketing and “when things get busy (as they often do), it’s all hands on deck”, Christine shares, and the staff swells to include extended family and close friends. Kevin Covino, one of the Covino’s sons is the Farm Manager and also manages the hard cider business, Hardscrabble Cider, with brothers Alex and Ben. While the purchase was completed in 2006, the Outhouse family continued to run it until 2011 and that is when the name officially changed.Ī family business, it is now a “multi-family business”, according to store manager and Covino family daughter in law, Christine. The two properties actually connect on both sides of Hardscrabble Road. This “destination”, Harvest Moon, is located on 64 bucolic acres in North Salem and was purchased by Rob and Ursula Covino, owners of the adjacent Hardscrabble Farms in 2006 from the Outhouse family who had farmed the land since the nineteenth century. North Salem family enlisting the next generation to bring their fresh produce, flowers, sweet and hard cider, and locally sourced New York State products to your table. By Nancy Sorbella – Harvest Moon is the percent example of a business living the local farming dream, with a
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