First in a series of brightly colored tractor pictures. This tractor stand by the entrance to Stuart’s Farm on Granite Springs Road in Granite Springs, NY.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Stuart’s farm – Red Tractor
Stuart’s farm – Red Barn
Why are barns in the US almost always red? According to the Farmer’s Almanac:
Ever wonder why are barns painted red in color? Red is (or, perhaps, was) a popular color for older barns due not to its color shade but for its usefulness.
Many years ago, choices for paints, sealers and other building materials did not exist. Farmers had to be resourceful in finding or making a paint that would protect and seal the wood on their barns.
Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milk and lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color.
When paint became more available, many people chose red paint for their barns in honor of tradition.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Stuart’s farm – Red Gas Pump
Not quite as weathered as the yellow gas pump in the preceding post (See: Stuart’s farm – Yellow Gas Pump) but still nice.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Stuart’s farm – Yellow Gas Pump
I just love old, rusting equipment and the bright colors here really caught my attention particularly the way the blue on the pump picks up the blue of the planter.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Stuart’s farm – Overview
I friend had recommended Stuart’s Farm as a great place to get plants. We’d had a stretch of bad weather, which suddenly turned better so on a glorious, sunny day off we went.
According to its website:
Stuart’s Fruit Farm is a family-operated farm since 1828 located in Westchester County, New York. It is about an hour away from New York City. The farm began as cattle farm and evolved to an agricultural farm.
Depending on your seasonal needs; visit us in the spring to buy a varied selection of flowers and vegetable plants, the autumn for apple picking, peach picking and visiting the pumpkin patch, and in the winter for Christmas trees.
Visiting Stuart’s Fruit Farm in the autumn is an exceptional time of the year. Aside from the perfect apple picking with an array of apples take a hayride around the orchard and visit the farm stand to buy fresh produce and the bakery for delicious apple cider donuts and homemade pies baked daily. Finally, before heading home have a picnic with your family to enjoy the beautiful fall foliage.
It is, indeed, a lovely place – old weathered gas pumps; the inevitable red barn; lots of brightly colored tractors; and of course the vegetables and flowers (some of which we took home).
Unfortunately, the bakery was not open, which was a pity as I was a bit ‘peckish’.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.