Return of the Sun
Week 7, 2023｜Kristin Kimball｜February 17, 2023
Misty freezing rain here this morning, but the roads are improving rapidly and it looks like the storm is over. This comes on the heels of a February thaw that felt like true […]
Deep Freeze
Week 5, 2023｜Kristin Kimball｜February 3, 2023
New Things
Week 4, 2023｜Kristin Kimball｜January 31, 2023
Winter is the season of trying new things. Barbara Kunzi has been experimenting with our large supply of sheep and lamb tallow this week, making prototypes of candles and samples of tallow salve that we […]
Winter Beauty
Week 3, 2023｜Kristin Kimball｜January 20, 2023
More up and down winter weather this week. Mud, ice, snow, rain, repeat. Today was one of the white ones, and the school age person in our house was a little bitter that […]
Winter Work
Week 2, 2023｜Kristin Kimball｜January 13, 2023
Baffling weather again this week. It rained all night, turning the hard frozen fields slick and soft. Now the temperature is dropping, and the gray sky is shedding snowflakes thick and fast. Members, don’t […]
Fresh Year
Week 1, 2023｜Kristin Kimball｜January 6, 2023
Fresh year, new life here in the dairy barn, and so much good news to share. First, the new life. Noodle the Jersey cow gave birth to a heifer calf on the last day […]
Contracts
Week 52, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜December 30, 2022
The end of the year is upon us and that means it’s time to renew contracts for 2023. As you know from my last note, members, we are offering a four month local share […]
End of the Year Letter 2022
Week 51, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜December 23, 2022
The storm has passed and the weather has shifted and in the little pause after Christmas I’m sitting down to update you at last. Thanks for your patience as we have worked to figure […]
Gratitude
Week 47, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜November 25, 2022
The sun put on a good show for us on Thanksgiving morning, melting the snow on the surface of the soil and turning it dark again so that it seemed to drink in the […]
Harvest Home
Week 46, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜November 18, 2022
Mark took Miranda to Mexico for his cousin’s wedding in Oaxaca City last week, a big family event and Miranda’s first international trip. Mark has had a pretty intense year leading the farm – an […]
Essex Farm Pancake Recipe
2 cups Essex Farm pancake mix
½ cup butter milk
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons oil (optional)
sugar to taste (optional)
Milk or water to texture
Incorporate eggs, oil, sugar, and buttermilk into pancake mix. Add milk or water while stirring until batter is slightly lumpy. Ladle about 1/3-1/4 cup batter onto hot greased pan. Makes 8-12 cakes.