Hudson Valley adventures, part 1.
Hudson Valley adventures, part 1 - Bloominghill Farm in Monroe, NY
John and I have always loved adventuring, specifically for food. We live in the southern part of the Hudson Valley so just driving 30 minutes to an hour north brings you to so so so many great places. And if you venture further than an hour you have even more options. We are going to try to get to a bunch of them during the beautiful fall season to share with you all. And bonus, these will all be kid friendly! Because that is our life now and when the kids are happy (Logan), mom and dad are happy.
Bloominghill Farms. This place is so adorable and so delicious. John brought me years ago when we first started dating and it was just a big old piece of land with one building, one long farm table in the middle of a field and a little shack where they cooked up like 4 menu items. Brick oven pizza, egg dishes and a few others. And then they had a little bakery where I’ll never forget the homemade pop tart we indulged on that day.
Fast forward to the present, they revamped the entirety of the property while keeping its original charm. It’s not only a restaurant and a farm, it’s also a wedding venue! Some weekends you’ll see a big gorgeous sail tent set up in the back of the farmers market stand. (I’ll try to get a photo next time but you can certainly find it on their instagram here).
You park in front and take a cute little walk down a path to the property. To the left you can go shop their home grown farmers market and to the right is the restaurant where you will be disappointed with absolutely nothing on the menu. So freaking good. There’s wild flowers and butterflies which is where we spent a big chunk of time with our nature loving toddler. There’s very few things I love more than getting my kids outside in nature to just be in the dirt, with the flowers, searching for bugs and getting dirty. Those are my best childhood memories and I want the same for my kids!
Even when we were sitting down to eat, which Logan could not care less about, there was a big old farm fly on the wall that entertained him for 45 minutes. Just enough time to enjoy the meal and then get back to the adventure. We looked for and found, a praying mantis, multiple grasshoppers, and the ever exciting, rocks. 10 out of 10 experience, I couldn’t recommend it more! And then I brought home some local honey made there, obviously and some heirloom tomatoes that I will douse in my fave strawberry balsamic.
You can see photos below because we also used this awesome setup as the backdrop to some much needed family of now 4 photos! And our fave aunt Ali and Uncle Greg came along for the excursion.
If you go to Bloominghill Farms, let me know what you think!
xx Stephanie
Greg and I both take most of the photos. If you remember Hudson Portrait (pre-pandemic), we love setting a cute scene and snapping family shots. But Greg did decide he had a higher calling and is going to school to become a nurse now! We bring him out of retirement for our personal use only ;)
