Saturdays are generally the busiest days for us at Cricket Creek Farm. Customers are coming to the farm store to stock up on food for the next week, folks are strolling around visiting with our animals, CSA members are coming to pick up their shares. On Saturday mornings the farm store smells sweet from the …
The transition seasons – spring and autumn – are never long enough. They sneak up on you and are over before you know it. These are the times I try to savor. They are the sweetest times of the year. They are times of planning, times of reflection. I spend a lot of time thinking …
Matthew and I made many stops on our drive out to Cella & Emmet’s wedding. One of the truly special places we visited was the Borgendale Farm in Montevideo, Minnesota. This is the farm where Anne Borgendale (Cricket Creek Farm 2011 intern) grew up. The farm has been in Anne’s family for 140 years – …
Cella and Emmet were interns at Cricket Creek Farm from October 2011 through March 2012. On September 22nd they were married in Stockholm, Wisconsin on the farm where Emmet was raised. Matthew and I had the special opportunity to drive out there for the wedding. We are grateful to Cella and Emmet for having us …
I’ve always enjoyed visiting farmer’s markets in whatever cities I have lived in… I’ve visited some wonderful markets in Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and most recently Cambridge and Somerville, MA. I would wander through these markets, and see if anything exciting would jump out at me. Every time it was a different experience. Sometimes I would …