Kitchen Tour:
A Couple's Catskills Cook Space (Root Cellar Included)
Photography by Gentl + Hyers,
courtesy of Bovina Farm & Fermentory
Bovina Farm & Fermentory in the Catskills was designed and built by Upstate natives Elizabeth Starks and Jacob Sackett to be both their own home and an old-fashioned gathering place, with farm dinners, homemade pies, and house brews. Today we’re taking a look at the true heart of the place: the couple’s kitchen in their own quarters. Join us.
“The cabinets are from deVol’s Shaker range, painted in their Mushroom color,” Elizabeth says.
All of our baskets, drying racks, stools, candlesticks, etc., are vintage pieces that we found on Etsy or elsewhere online or from Jake’s grandparents’ old farm,” writes Elizabeth.
Elizabeth in the kitchen.
“The sink is a Villeroy & Boch farmhouse sink with deVol’s Brass Mayan Taps. We cut a small piece of marble and fit it under the taps for extra durability in the wet area around the sink.
“The peg rails were custom made by Ed at Peg and Rail USA,” Elizabeth says.
Elsewhere on the property, the couple built a duck house and a chicken coop, started an orchard out back with eleven fruit trees, and built a root cellar into a hillside last fall.