Raised garden beds and open fields at Tompkins Farm

From Our Fields

What We Grow

Everything we grow, all year — what is in the ground now, what is at the farm stand today, and what is coming in the seasons ahead. All on healthy, no-till soil.

What we grow now and what is coming

In the Ground Now
  • “ColdSpring Pearl” Sweet Corn  Read the story →
  • “ColdSpring Silver” Sweet Corn Selling now
  • Giant Pumpkins
  • Christmas Trees
Also in Our Ground
  • Sunflowers
  • Garden Vegetables
  • Deer Food Plots
  • White Clover
Crops Coming
  • Berries
  • Fruit
  • Nuts
  • Honey
Selling Now

At the farm stand — sweet corn

Fridays · Noon–6 PM Picked early each morning · rinsed & refrigerated. Come get it before it’s all gone.

2806 Lebanon Rd · Randolph, NY 14772 Drive down to the barn · until gone

From I‑86, take the Steamburg exit and head north on Lebanon Rd. The farm is about a mile up on the right — look for the signs.

  • $1Ear
  • $3Half dozen
  • $5Dozen
  • $12Half bushel
  • $20Bushel
  • $362 bushels
  • $483 bushels
  • $564 bushels
  • $605 bushels

What we sell changes as the season turns — sweet corn now, giant pumpkins in the fall, and Christmas trees once the evergreens are ready.

Freshly husked ears of bright white sweet corn
Super Sweet Corn

Super sweet corn, all season long

Our super sweet corn is the heart of the farm stand — tender, sugary ears that taste like summer itself. We grow two of our own: “ColdSpring Pearl” white super sweet corn and “ColdSpring Silver” sweet corn. To stretch the season, we put in three successive plantings spaced about a week apart, so the harvest ladders out from late summer into early fall instead of arriving all at once.

It's planted right into the living clover with a narrow strip cleared for each row — no plowing required.

3 successive plantings Harvest late summer No-till planted
A big golden sunflower head in full bloom against the field
Sunflowers

A field of gold

Our tall heirloom sunflowers turn the back fields into a wall of gold by late summer. We grow them for cut blooms and for their big seed heads — and because they are a true open-pollinated heirloom, we save seed from the best heads each year to plant again the next.

Bees and birds love them as much as we do, which is exactly the point of a farm like ours.

Open-pollinated Seed saved for next year Pollinator-friendly
A big pile of bright orange giant pumpkins by the Tompkins Farm sign
Pumpkins

Pumpkins for the patch

Big, handsome giant pumpkins grow on the east ground all summer and come ripe in early fall — just in time for the porch, the pie, and the pumpkin patch. It's grown for size and shape, perfect for the patch.

Grown for size Early-fall harvest Grown for the patch
Eight raised garden beds at Tompkins Farm
Gardens

Garden vegetables — ours and Mama's

Tucked beside the fields are our raised-bed vegetable gardens — eight tidy beds that keep the family table full. From spring greens to summer tomatoes, this is where we grow the everyday fresh vegetables that don't need acres, just care.

The raised beds get the same soil-first treatment as the fields: build the soil, feed it, and let it do the work.

Deer feeding in a green food plot along the wooded edge at Tompkins Farm
For the Wildlife

Deer food plots

Not every acre is for us. We keep dedicated food plots along the wooded edges for the deer and wildlife that share this land. It's part of being good stewards of the whole property — crops for the family, cover and forage for the wild neighbors, and healthy ground for both.

Wildlife habitat Wooded edges Whole-land stewardship
Sweet corn growing up through a blooming white-clover living mulch
Clover

The crop beneath every crop

White clover is the quiet workhorse of Tompkins Farm. It's the living mulch our other crops are planted into — a low, green carpet that feeds the soil with natural nitrogen, shades out weeds, holds moisture, and keeps the ground covered all season long.

It also feeds our pollinators and the wildlife, and it's the reason we can grow the way we do with so little spray. Healthy clover, healthy soil, healthy food — it all starts here.

Living mulch Natural nitrogen Pollinator forage
Rows of evergreen Christmas trees growing at Tompkins Farm
Christmas Trees

Evergreens in the ground

Our Christmas trees are planted and growing. Evergreens are a patient crop — they take several seasons in the ground before they're ready — so the rows we're tending today are the trees of Christmases to come.

It's a long game we're glad to play: a family tradition taking root, one season of growth at a time.

Planted & growing Trees to come A family tradition
Putting Down Roots

Coming to the farm

A farm is never finished. Here's what we're planting and building for the seasons ahead — the next chapters of Tompkins Farm & Land.

Berry bushes illustration
Coming Soon

Berries

Berry rows for picking by the handful or the pint — another reason to walk down to the barn.

Nut trees illustration
Coming Soon

Nuts

Nut trees put in for the long haul — a crop measured in decades, planted for the generations after us.

Apple orchard illustration
Coming Soon

Orchard

Fruit trees for fresh-picked apples and more — a pick-your-own orchard taking root for the years ahead.

Grapevine illustration
Coming Soon

Vineyard

Rows of grapevines on the trellis — table grapes off the vine and a little something for the future.

Honey bees and hive illustration
Coming Soon

Honey Bees

Hives for fresh honey and busy pollinators — a natural fit for a farm built on clover and bloom.

Field tomatoes illustration
Coming Soon

Field Tomatoes

Vine-ripened field tomatoes for the farm stand and the canning jar — summer flavor by the basketful.

Peppers illustration
Coming Soon

Peppers

Sweet and hot peppers in every color — fresh off the plant for the table, the grill, and the salsa bowl.

Through the Season

From ground prep to harvest

Garden prep

Beds built and the soil readied before a single seed goes in.

Crop planting

Seed drilled straight into living clover, laddered out across the planting windows.

Fall harvest

Corn, sunflowers, and pumpkins come in from late summer through fall — and we save seed from our sunflowers and pumpkins for next year.

Hungry yet?

See how our harvest makes it from the field to the family table.

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