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 …
post originally written for the Cricket Creek Farm newsletter on May 26th, 2013… This morning I was setting the New York Times out for sale in the farm store when a story on the front page of the Sunday Review section caught my eye. The article is calledBreeding Nutrition out of Food. The article starts …
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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 …
Bent over in a stretch. I put my hands on the grass and peered between my legs at the cows behing me in the pasture. The cows peer, walking around me, poking their noses t my shoulders, legs and licking my exposed lower back. I thought about the animals – their sensibility, their calm, their …
Last week I visited our friends and fellow dairy farmers at Sidehill Farm to check out some of their equipment for foliar feeding their pastures and hay fields. They are in the midst of a huge transition to their new farm in Hawley and generously took some time out of a busy morning (after a …