User:Alienmanhands666/Fishkills Farms

Fishkill Farms is one of the Wiki topics that is to be assigned in the course Hudson Valley Amenity Economy (ENST 291). Our instructors encouraged us to create stub pages as a way to begin the assignment, which is how you encountered it; they promise to assign it soon through the class dashboard very soon. As for its notability, Fishkill Farms is one of the Hudson Valley's oldest apple orchards, founded by family friends of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a popular destination for travelers from the New York City area. The farm is located Hopewell Junction, New York, a hamlet of East Fishkill.

History
Fishkill Farms was founded by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who purchased the land in 1914. The farm has been handed down through family members, including former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau. The farm is now run by his son, Joshua Morgenthau. Joshua initially moved the property to pursue landscape painting but soon took up maintaining the family farm as his chief pursuit.

The farm originally produced apples, chickens and dairy but Henry Morgenthau Jr. ceased dairy farming during World War II when hired help was hard to find. In 1980, a hailstorm damaged the apples and rendered them unsellable to wholesale distributors so Robert opened the orchard up to the local public for U-pick harvesting which was greeted with wild success. The farm has been doing U-pick ever since.

Services
Fishkill Farms' 130 acre property offers pick-your-own services for produce including blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, nectarines, pears, vegetables, and most famously, apples. Pasture-raised hens also produce eggs for the farm. Recently, Fishkill began to cater to the consumers of New York City by selling produce in Brooklyn farmers markets as well as delivering goods through an order-fulfillment service called Good Eggs. The farm also offers Community-supported agriculture shares for Hudson Valley residents.