Shopping Locally- Farmer’s Market Visit

Share Honey, eggs, squash, eggplant, sweet peppers, jalapeño peppers, garlic. I’m going to see about dehydrating some of the squash for winter soups.  The honey is buckwheat honey from Washington, where the farmers here moved their bees for the wintertime- it’s so much darker than the orange blossom honey that we got last time.  Garlic is a [...]

Fresh Milk! Part 1: Why Raw Milk is Better than Pasteurized

When buying raw milk, we are going to take more care to make sure the cow’s diets are appropriate (they’re eating what they’re designed to eat- grass), the dairy is clean and the cows are in good health. In industrial farming, where commercial milk comes from, unfortunately too many dairies are too crowded, the cows are fed grain (which makes them sick) and less than sanitary living conditions exist, with the thought that everything will be killed during pasteurization so it’s okay.

Real Honey!

Share7.75 pounds of honey, from the farmer we visited. We loved learning about his bees, and he was happy to share. He told us about how the bees start making honey comb from the inside of the hive, so each section is actually from a different time period. He said that depending on where the [...]