Ever meet a staffer who greets you with a smile at a local restaurant or bar and say, “I wish I got to know more about that person.”
It happens to our staff all the time as we come across interesting people with big personalities making a living at cafés, markets, wineries and shops across the North Fork. (more…)
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Consider this Peconic estate your own private beachfront compound.
The .75-acre property overlooking the Long Island Sound boasts a newly renovated main house as well as a charming guest cottage. (more…)
If it hasn’t begun already, the deluge of “you should drink X with Thanksgiving dinner” stories is on its way soon.
You probably know that I don’t put too much credence in such stories. You should drink wine that you like, not what someone else tells you to drink. Always. (more…)
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The word namaste is transcribed on a rock in the front gardens of this Peconic dream home. The term is a greeting in Hindu custom that conjures feelings of peace and tranquility upon arriving at the 2.5-acre property. The simple saying also bestows a sense of what’s to come behind the doors of the estate. (more…)
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Traditional meets top-of-the-line in this 4,000-square-foot Victorian with Old World ambience. Impressively sited on just shy of two acres in the heart of Long Island wine country, its aesthetic is a rare find on the North Fork.
“It is very regal,” said listing agent Nicole LaBella of Town & Country Real Estate. “It is not a typical North Fork style home with cedar planking. It is more like a palace.” (more…)
Al, Nick and Kim Krupski inside their ‘haunted’ barn. (Credit: David Benthal)
For many, it’s hard to imagine a time when fall on the North Fork had little to do with pumpkins.
For Al Krupski, whose family farm was one of the first to place an emphasis on that crop, it isn’t all that difficult.
“We grew mostly potatoes,” he said of the Peconic farm his parents launched in 1950, “some cucumbers, some cauliflower. We didn’t get into pumpkins until 1976.”
Today, the sign on the side of the family’s barn welcomes visitors to Krupski’s Pumpkin Farm, the easternmost of nearly 20 farms in Riverhead and Southold towns that now offer pumpkin-picking. (more…)
Peter Treiber Jr. (Credit: David Benthal)
Peter Treiber Jr. recalls his father planting a vegetable garden with a handful of fruit trees and tending to beehives at his childhood home in Sea Cliff.
That hobby yielded fresh food that found its way onto the Treiber family dinner table every spring and summer throughout his youth. The home harvest also seeded a passion for growing and sharing bounty that would become the foundation for the family’s next venture: organic farming. (more…)
