Local, Wellesley Island Grown, Certified Organic

Cross Island Farms


Cross Island Farms produces All Natural Pastured Pork, Pure Wellesley Island Wildflower Honey, Wellesley Island Maple Syrup, Certified Organic fruits and vegetables, Certified Organic vegetable sets, and other all-natural produce. 

· Located on 102 acres on Wellesley Island in the beautiful 1000 Islands Region of the St. Lawrence River in Northern NY. 

· Started in 2006 by Dani Baker and David Belding.

Cross Island Farms seeks to cooperate with Nature to produce the highest quality all-natural, Island-Grown produce, while being good stewards of the land and water resources entrusted to us.


Come visit us.  Our self-service greenhouse and produce stand are closed until next spring, but off-season farm tours are available by appointment.

               Cross Island Farms                    44301 Cross Island Rd., Wellesley Island NY 13640

Take I-81 exit 51 and follow the signs toward the Nature Center and Wellesley Island State Park.

Dani picking lettuce for the Farm to School Program.  Click for a larger view.

Dani picks gourmet organic lettuce for TI High School in the Farm to School Program.  Click picture for a larger view.

 

B.B. (Baby Boar) with the goats.  Click for a larger view.

Meet "B.B.", our new baby boar, with the goats.  B.B. is intended to be the father of our next generation of pigs.  He is only nine-weeks old and does not realize his good fortune!  Click the photo for a larger picture.

 

The pigs at dinner time in mid-August.  Click for a larger view.

DINNER TIME: When the pigs want dinner the noise is deafening.  When this picture was taken the pigs had just received their grain, and you could hear a pin drop.  What concentration!  Click photo for a larger view

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Meet Snowflake the pig, click for a better look, and check "What's Happening".

Meet Snowflake, the pastured sow, matriarch of our pig herd.  Click What's Happening for more pig pictures, including the babies

Geronimo and the piglets enjoy the pasture.  Click for a larger view.

Geronimo and the piglets grazing

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Cross Island Farms farm stand in late summer.

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David reads "Sugarbush Spring" to second graders at Alexandria Centrail School

David reads "Sugarbush Spring" to second graders during "Ag Literacy Day 2008."  Click for larger view.