What to do with whey?

Now that we are selling whey and buttemilk in the Cricket Creek Farm Store, you may be looking for ideas of what to do with these tasty dairy products.  I will share recipes over the coming weeks, but here are a few starter ideas for some of the many uses for whey… Use it as …

Buttermilk!

We are now selling sweet cream buttermilk from our farm store.  This is REAL buttermilk that is a by-product of our butter production – churning butter from cream.  Most buttermilk you find in stores these days (even natural products) is cultured milk, which is made by adding a strain of lactic-acid producing bacteria such as  Streptococcus …

new piglets

On Wednesday night our sow Ophelia gave birth to a wonderful family of piglets.  Her labor started late afternoon and the first piglet was born around 10:15pm.  They kept coming until 5:15am.  Some came out right after one another, but some were widely spaced (there was a 2 hour wait between piglet #6 and piglet #7).  During that …