SoMa Catering in Richmond, MA is now using Cricket Creek Farm Feta on their flat breads. Are you familiar with SoMa catering? They have a store and sell ready-to-eat foods. They also can cater your special event: wedding, family reunion, summer BBQ. They use many local foods in their preparations. Last week SoMa bought feta cheese …
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 …