Attention: Cow Share Owners!

Animals, Farming, Raw Milk

Spring is the time for babies and they are popping out all over the farm.  The dairy cows will not be outdone by the sheep (although they are seriously outnumbered) and several cows have calved which means more milk.  More milk means yogurt, buttermilk, ricotta and...

New Smoking Goose Products

Farm Shoppe

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how effective our newsletter and blog have become at getting the word out about new great products we produce or secure from other farmers.  Well, obviously our customers have been waiting for healthy, delicious charcuterie meats...

It’s a Boy!!

Animals, Farm News, Raw Milk

Finally, Baby Boy has made his entrance and although it was a greatly anticipated and highly awaited event he entered life on the farm quietly and without much fanfare.  We awoke to the proud Mamma grazing happily with BB sleeping in the grass nearby. Dottie is a pure...

The Smoking Goose

Farm Shoppe, Slow Food

The Smoking Goose Comes to River Cottage Farm The one comment that seems to emerge from almost every River Cottage customer at one time or another is ” WHERE CAN I GET HEALTHY LUNCHEON MEATS!!”  Breakfast and supper seem to be more easily conquered than...

Figs in the South

Organic Gardening

  My Mom, pictured here with her beloved fig, has as green a thumb as anyone I ever met.  She didn’t grow up growing things but since the day I bought her the first of many antique roses it was all we could do to keep her out of the garden. My mom’s fig is like...

When Pigs Fly

Animals, Farm News, Homesteading, Sustainable Farming

For 20 years I have gradually coasted down that slippery slope from homesteading to full time farming and through all those stages I have never had single pig wallowing in my muck.  Oh how times have changed!  Brayden decided that he would like try his hand at raising...