Our Blog
Welcome to our blog. To make things a bit easier to navigate we’ve divided up the posts into Recipes and Cooking Tips from the farm and Farm News, Musings, and Stories from our every-days on the farm. Enjoy!
RECIPES FROM THE FARM
Book Review: Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book
The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking is an excellent and comprehensive guide to learning or perfecting your skills at baking whole grain breads. From detailed instructions for a beginner loaf of whole wheat bread to recipes for Indian...
Another Fermented Vegetable Dish
If you're familiar with Korean food at all you have doubtless tried kimchi, as the condiment appears at just about every Korean meal. When I was in middle school my family lived in Korea for two years, so I developed a taste for kimchi and was eager to try my hand at...
Make Your Own Sauerkraut!
If you're making your own yogurt, you can make your own whey by straining the yogurt through a thin dishcloth or cheesecloth layered over a colander placed over a bowl. The resulting yogurt will be thicker like Greek yogurt, or if you leave it long enough will become...
Organic Cooking: Use Your Maple Syrup
Maple syrup is a nourishing whole food and is a great addition to your organic cooking arsenal. When you buy real maple syrup from local producers, you not only improve your family's diet, you also support sustainable farming. Eat Local! Arugula and Pear Salad with...
What To Do With Whey
I have recently begun straining my homemade raw milk yogurt to get a thicker product by placing a colander over a large bowl, lining the colander with a thin towel (cheese cloth would be even better for the task), and letting it drain, covered, in the refrigerator...
My Favorite Meatloaf Recipe
Sometimes a recipe comes along that is so wonderful that it spoils you from making any other way, no matter how badly you want to. I have a recipe that falls deeply into this category: meatloaf. Sounds crazy, I know, but since I adapted this recipe from the The...
Steakhouse Burgers from Grass Fed Beef
What makes steakhouse burgers so much better than those made at home? Why do our burgers lack those seemingly elusive qualities of the perfect burger? In my opinion those qualities include deeply charred, beefy flavor and a richness without the slick waxiness that...
Begin an Organic Garden with a Simple Step
Seasoned gardeners often remark that the secret to a good organic garden is to constantly add to the soil and try new things, year after year. As a novice gardener, I was encouraged by that fact. For too long I was daunted by my perception that one had to get up a...
Delicious Homemade Raw Milk Vanilla Ice Cream
Pictured at right is the beginning of Debbie's Vanilla Ice Cream base!! Six golden egg yolks from our free range chickens! The best vanilla ice cream is made with vanilla beans that have been steeped in custard to release their maximum flavor. If you haven't...
Made With Raw Milk: Yogurt
Although we think few things are more delightful than a tall glass of fresh milk, we also enjoy other foodstuffs made from raw milk. One of the simplest things to do with milk is make yogurt. As with many recipes, options and opinions for how best to make your own...
Farm Stories, Musings, and Farm News
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