At Cricket Creek apprentices come to work on the farm and in the creamery and generally stay for a year at a time. We are now interviewing for the 2014 apprentice crew! Details on the apprenticeship can be found here on our website. If you know anyone interested in working on a dairy farm or making …
On December 1st we will be having a cheese making class here at the farm! This is an opportunity to see how we make cheese in our farmstead creamery. It is a beginner class and intended for a wide audience – cooks, DIY enthusiasts, aspiring cheese makers, or anyone curious about what commercial cheese making on a …
I have been thinking a lot about chickens lately. Which I guess is pretty normal for me, because I love those little guys! There is probably an endless number of entertaining things you can do with chickens, but if you have a good-sized flock of them, maybe a dozen or more, one fun thing you …
We now make and sell 7 different kinds of cheese on a consistent basis. Each of these cheeses is special and unique. They are all for sale at our farm store (and most of our weekly farmers markets), so if you see a kind that isn’t regularly available where you shop, stop by to try …
I always like to have some broth on hand – for making soup, cooking beans or other legumes/grains in, or just drinking on a cold day or if I have an upset stomach. This week I made some broth from our pork shanks. We have plenty of pork shanks available in the Cricket Creek farm …