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| Photography: Mikkel Vang, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc |
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| Photography: Mikkel Vang, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc |
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| Photography: Mikkel Vang, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc |
At the beginning of June,
Studio Marcus Hay joined the Williams Sonoma team at Fishkill Farm in Hopewell,
Upstate NY to help produce a story for the Fall Catalog,
styling an event to be photographed on the farm for the Open Kitchen line available at Williams Sonoma.
Fishkill Farms is a historic apple
orchard that has been in the Morgenthau family for nearly 100 years. With the
hard work and dedication of the team, Fishkill Farms has grown from a
conventionally farmed apple orchard in need of new trees and new tractors, into
a diversified, ecological farm with new orchards and infrastructures. Here are
the additions to the farm in the past few years:15 acres of diverse vegetable
plantings, pasture-raised hens, many acres of new fruit trees, farmer's markets
nearby and in New York City, and a pick-your-own CSA. The mission of the farm
has been to marry its historic identity as a family "u-pick" apple
orchard, with the Fishkill Farms team's shared goals of diversification and
environmental stewardship through sustainable farming methods.
It is a wonderfully inspiring place and the Fishkill Farm folk were
a pleasure to work with the team. We spent a number of days there shooting a
menu for a dinner that took place in one of the apple orchards.Studio Marcus Hay created a table setting for
Special thanks to our team members Jill Skoda and
Andrea Greco who went above and beyond and stayed very late on the last night
to pack up. It was wonderful to work with Photographer Mikkel Vang, It was a
long time between drinks and of course Food Stylist Alison Attenborough and Art
Director Scot Schy.
