It’s hard to keep in the heat when it gets so cold here in the winter, so I try and stock up on as much heat as I can. I bought two large bags of jalapeñoes from my favorite farmer Mark of Thistle Whistle and lacto fermented half of them and dehydrated the other half … Continue reading
Ok, so I got some of my facts wrong in my earlier conversation with Javier, the Peruvian sheep herder. As we lingered over dinner, he rapid fire answered question after question as we all sat in continued amazement. He talks so fast, even Jackie had trouble following it all. First of all, trout are a … Continue reading
Yesterday the man and I drove 8 hours to Utah to pick up a gorgeous, fullblood, registered Dorper replacement ram and some fatso ewes. We drove back today and right before dark, about 15 minutes from our farm, we saw something amazing, and met someone unbelievable, Javier. There is a dirt road cutoff at the … Continue reading
It is high time that there is an educational book for children on the life and nutritional findings of Weston A. Price. Soon there will be! My friend Sandrine Love, whom I met on the Weston Price farm tour of Switzerland, is writing such a book, called The Adventures of Andrew Price. Sandrine is a … Continue reading
It is a luxury to live in an area where wild raspberries grow. The secret of a finding a good raspberry patch is about the same as where to find king boletus, or chanterelles, “If I tell you, then I’ll have to kill you.” I have not been lucky enough to find a good patch … Continue reading
Making cheese does take time and before, during and after the demonstration we walked among the fabulous artifacts of the museum. This is the last of posts from the cheese museum and the next series is the Horse Milk Farm. I adored the huge cow bells and other lovely cow tack with filigree metal work.
The cheese museum housed some of the loveliest folk art paintings and furniture I had seen in a long time. These first panels were actually the walls on the inside of a hand hewn log cabin.
After Mr. Zimmerman strained out the curds from the huge copper pot, he put them in a draining box lined with cheese cloth. The box had a sloping lip on the front for the whey to drain in a pail. He then scooped out some whey to pour on top of the curds in the … Continue reading
Ok, I’m not positive we’re going to name him that, but considering that his due date was yesterday, Sept. 11th, I have been thinking Salomon a fitting name, especially since all the talk was that I was going to have to pull him. Lots of terrorist, terrorist, terrorist talk yesterday. Faline was 8 months old … Continue reading
Really? Yes, really. I know it is not very likely to exactly replicate this, because how often can you get your hands on the most tomatoey black tomatoes, sweet heirloom peppers and super grapey blue grapes? We are the luckiest to have the very best farmer, Mark Waltermire from Thistle Whistle who brings his incredibly … Continue reading
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