Spooky Apple Cider

Every Halloween table deserves a showstopper, and this one happens to be easy. Fill a punch bowl with apple cider, then float a handful of apples on top, each one carved into a grinning skull or pumpkin.

Recipe Roundup: Kale

By mid-October, the mornings have a chill and more leafy greens start to show up on the Farm Stand, including kale. Its leaves hold up to heat, soak up a good broth, and cook fast enough for a weeknight dinner. Cooler weather also tends to sweeten kale, so the bunches that arrive this time of year often taste milder than the ones from midsummer.

Fat Toad Farm

In 2007, Judith Irving, Steve Reid, and their daughter, Calley Hastings, brought home a single French Alpine doe named Jupiter. They had a modest plan for a backyard homestead on their property in Brookfield, Vt. What grew out of it was Fat Toad Farm, and eventually, one of the more beloved caramel sauces in the country.