Wild Work
Farmer Lissa Goldstein likes her produce to be pretty—red radishes free of any trace of the soil that cradled them; gently dimpled blueberries; kohlrabi the color of an Adirondack twilight. The vegetables should be wholesome and look the part. She’s a perfectionist that way.
Goldstein, 36, and her staff of four at Wild Work Farm grow three-dozen crops in the fertile soil of the Ausable River floodplain in Keene Valley. The setting is as picture perfect as the produce Wild Work sells at the Keene farmers’ market, local restaurants and through a farm share. A
