Browse by Tag: Eating

Summer Eating!

While I love Fall & Winter cooking and the coziness it provides, Summer eating is really special. So fresh, so many colors, textures & flavors. Salads that can become whole meals because you keep adding different veggies, fruits and whatever meat you’ve cooked or grilled….good localvore living. Summer Eating gets better around here this week […]

We Love ❤️ Partnerships

It is so great to be back at the Northfield Farmers Market and have our on-farm farmstand open! Why? Because it is so wonderful to see all of our great customers, neighbors, and fellow farmers. AND we love the new ideas that come about when we get together and create great partnerships. Nothing like a […]

Chickens: What is the difference between fryers, broilers and stewers?

We have now have a variety of chicken in the farmstand so here is a quick cheat sheet.  What is the difference between fryers, broilers, roasters and stew birds? Stewing Chickens—the easy one. Stew birds are usually laying hens that have passed their prime. They are older and their meat can be tougher, but more […]

Farmers, Chefs & Mixologists

We are having so much fun hosting Chef Lee Duberman and Mixologist Richard Fink (of Ariel’s Restaurant fame) at the farm. Sauce preparations, marinades, ferments and so much more are underway! The colors, aromas, textures and flow of gratitude has been inspiring (ok and perhaps a smidge exhausting). Thanks to Lee’s creativity more than 50 […]

#RootedinVermont

It is fall and while I love root vegetables all year round, the colder temps make them both more appealing to cook, and of course they are seasonally appropriate as they will last.  Just a little appreciation here for the roots — by us and the pigs too.   The pigs do love their roots […]

How we Love our Heirloom Tomatoes

We have now started full-on tomato season.  For most people, they are the star of the summer veggies and we all have our favorites. We choose our varieties primarily on taste.  We mostly grow heirlooms for that reason.  We are small, harvest often and can get them beautifully vine ripened and then directly to you. […]

Ode to the Beet

We often sing praises of our beets and certainly believe they are deserving of their own ode.  Which is saying a lot as beets are the only vegetable I (Laura) had a negative run-in with as a child. Long story, but suffice to say went to bed with them in my mouth and I didn’t […]

Clean Food

We returned home from the BioNutrient Food Association’s Soil and Nutrition Conference spinning with ideas and very optimistic. As if to egg us on, Laura clicked on a NYT op ed by Jacques Leslie entitled Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Clean Planet. Quoting Dr. Rattan Lal, it read “Putting carbon back in the […]

Back to the Farm Room

This week included some time back in our farm processing room.  The results are tasty and satisfying.  We have let the room be quiet for some time this winter to allow farmers time to rest, reflect and get to some other projects. But it has been calling, promising more sausage, soups, pickles….and we answered the […]

Ode to Fall Veggies

I must admit, I am such a four season gal.  As each new season shows its colors, scents and weather, my spirits brighten.  There is so much hope at the beginning of each season – hope for things either not achieved or not achievable in the season that is ending.  Fall is no different for me. […]