Posts under ‘raw milk’

The forage was simple this Saturday:
Holbrook Farm in Bethel, where I scored:

strawberries (from Pell Farms in Somers, CT)
asparagus
spinach
green onions
tomatoes (hot house grown at March Farm in Bethlehem)
three-berry jam
potted basil (from March Farm in Bethlehem)

New Morning Natural Foods in Woodbury, where, among other things, I scored these local items:

raw milk from Foxfire
fiddleheads (local, but I don’t [...]

The Hartford Courant blogged about the current debates going on about raw milk here in CT.
It’s not often you hear a couple of nuns with doctorates stand up for the right to sell cow’s milk, but that’s part of what is at stake under a plan to limit the sale of unpasteurized milk.
He’s talking [...]

Here in the great state of Connecticut (third smallest in the union), raw milk is currently legal. We can even buy it in retail stores that choose to carry it. Interestingly, those that choose to tend to be natural foods stores. Lately, there’s been some action to review and change the availability of raw milk [...]

Saturday was a fun forage…we went here, there and it seemed, everywhere!
We began at the Bethel Farmer’s Market where I picked up numerous items from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm,  Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Goat Boy Soap:

We continued on to Blue Jay Orchards for some apples. (They don’t have Macouns yet.)

Next stop was [...]

I tried my hand again at making butter from raw milk. The trick is allowing sufficient time for the cream to rise. It’s not difficult and the butter was delicious. Here’s how I did it.

Separate the cream from the milk. I poured the milk into this glass vessel, covered and refrigerated it for at least [...]

Sometimes, life just takes you to wonderful places.
We left the NOFA Conference and segued into our summer vacation: visiting friends and enjoying some down time in the great state of VT. I decided to pick up some raw milk at a farm along the way–well, slightly off the beaten path. This required us to move [...]

I finally made a decent raw milk yogurt! I had the flavor I wanted, but couldn’t get the consistency. I kept getting something that would properly be called a yogurt shake. The problem was that I wasn’t heating the milk enough. Heat destroys the enzymes and natural good bacteria in the milk and I wanted [...]

We’re back on the road in search of food.
First stop was Stuart’s in Bridgewater for some beef stuffs for the family Father’s Day BBQ. We got a bunch of burgers and a couple of huge top sirloin for the event and a bunch of other goodies to round out the freezer stock.
Then on to [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted and I do apologize. My calendar got taken over by aliens and I’ve just wrested it back.
Yes, I’m still eating local. My milk, eggs, and beef are exclusively local and my cheese and other meats mostly are. My grains never were. (Yes, I’m still on that.) My vegetables are [...]

My biggest barrier to making my own raw milk yogurt was in finding a reliable low-heat source. My electric oven does not have a pilot and the light bulb lights intermittently. With the arrival of my Excalibur Dehydrator, I am ready to go!
I do like the organic local Hawthorne Valley yogurt as well as the [...]