Another cast iron answer for Mother’s Day
The mother of all cast iron breakfast successes! We've been spending a lot of time in the greenhouse this month preparing for our summer crop. There are a few vegetables we like to grow year round and swiss chard is one of them. Sweet, tender, and rainbow colored - just the vegetable to get us [...]
Hitting the Ground Running!
It’s that time of the year! We’ve packed away our favorite waffle knit long johns and opened the back doors to the sheep barn to let the new lambs out to bounce. We are in the last stage of lambing, which means we’ll soon be back to our normal biorhythms of a full nights sleep [...]
Roasted Apples and Pork Loin with Sweet Potato Puree and EF Onions
It's Friday night and after our long week here on the farm, we're taking a cue from yesterday's recipe and making a cast iron skillet dinner fit for king! Now that the mornings are cooler and the leaves are changing, everyone in our household is preparing for our favorite season –flannel season. And to look best in [...]
A new house and 100 new chickens!
You spoke, we listened! This week we welcome 100 new chickens to the farm, with a brand new chicken coop built for their arrival. We thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight our new layers in this week’s blog post! If you’ve ever been curious about the life of a farm chicken, here’s your chance to [...]
Lamb Jam 2015
They're here! Our first two lambs of the year were born this week, happy and healthy! Weighing in at an even eight pounds each, these strong lambs are starting our lambing season off right. Within the next month or so, the rest of the herd will deliver as well, so be on the lookout this [...]
Apple Hand Pies
Happy Saturday Everyone! This afternoon we decided to make some apple hand pies with our orchard's Macintosh apples. We were inspired during a raucous freezer cleaning session where we came across a disk of leftover pie dough from last season (Sitting Pretty Peach Galette). If you don't have a squirreled away frozen crust in your [...]