Grumpy Goat Experiment

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As you’ll see we’ve started taking some veggies off the online market. The garden is slowing down rapidly right now so it’s getting harder to figure out how much to list. We will still have tomatoes/peppers/eggplants in the store – we just can’t guarantee quantities before hand!

I’ve also had to remove the Asiago and Tomato Asiago bagels off until I can source blocks of Asiago again (sadly Kroger has stopped selling the blocks). If anyone has a source let me know!

We had a great time at the Handmade Harvest event in Minster last week. Thanks to those of you who came out to visit!!!

This week we continue to bottle the fall honey this week as well as starting to clean the wax to use in lip balms in the future. We are also continuing to shear the goats. Speaking of the goats, we just got word that Frankie Mittens was declared the Reserve Grand Champion in a fleece show in Oregon (we mailed in her fiber after her haircut)! Woohooo. We have high hopes for her in the future. We also continue to can, dehydrate, and freeze as much as possible before the garden stops producing. And now all the fall prep and cover cropping must begin… can’t believe it’s September already.

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We have been busy extracting honey this week. It’s not quite done yet, but we are somewhere around 350-400lbs! So much sweet goodness and our bees have had amazing access to a plethora of local weeds. Stock up for the winter now! I haven’t listed this new honey for preordering yet but we plan to have some bottled and labeled by Friday if everything goes as planned.

This week is also a bit more hectic for us as we will be setting up at Handmade Harvest at Hausfeld Motors in Minster Friday afternoon 2-7 and Saturday morning 9-12. Come see us and a bunch of other local crafters/artists. Shop local – it’s never too early to start thinking about the holidays!

We will also still be attending the Sidney Farmers market Saturday. I will try to get bread baked for both venues (and pick up at the farm store) but if you want something in particular please preorder – otherwise I can’t guarantee I’ll have the same selection as normal.

Other than that our selection looks the same as last week. We do have the first of our Delicatta squash picked and will have some pumpkins available starting Friday. Also, I’ve cleaned up the last of the Music and Russian Giant garlic so it won’t be around for much longer (we still have more of the other varieties for now). Get your winter stock or seed heads now!

See you this weekend!!!!

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Better late than never! The market is open for pre orders this week!

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We are open for orders now through Thursday night. We have other varieties of peppers that aren’t yet listed here (ajvarski, escamillo, spicy paprika’s, and the first lemon drops of the season) so remember to shop the store when you pick up your orders!

A little farm news for you – Logan (our pygora wether) won Grand Champion Wether at the Michigan Fiber Festival Pygora Show this past weekend! Matt proudly hung his ribbons in the store so you all could admire them! And we pick up a new buck on Thursday!

See you this week!

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Just kidding! The farm store will be open this coming weekend and Matt will be bringing vegetables to the Farmers Market. So get your orders in and put him to work!!! There will be no bread pick up available on Friday or Saturday. You can order bread and pick it up on Tuesday. I a heading up to Michigan to prance around in a ring with more of our goats. Fingers crossed they behave!

All the peppers are really coming into full swing right now. I’ve added some to the order form or shop in person to see the other varieties.

Try out some Shishito’s if you haven’t already. We have been told that 1 in 10 can be hot though we have eaten a lot of them and haven’t had a hot one yet. They are delicious just simply sauteed whole in a pan with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper. Or spice it up and add a drizzle of your favorite sauce just before serving.

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Get your orders in by the end of today!

Additionally in the farm store/farmers market we will also have

• 5 varieties of garlic

• Sugar Rush Peach Hot Peppers

• Adjvarski and escamillo peppers

• zucchini

And, FYI, the farm store will be closed on August 20-21 as we will be attending Michigan Fiber Festival with some of our furry friends. However we will still be accepting pre orders for that Tuesday.

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We are open for ordering now through Thursday night!!! Pick up on Friday, Saturday, or next Tuesday.

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We made it back from the Iowa Goat Show with ribbon’s in tow!!! Frankie Mittens was named the Reserve Champion Junior Doe. We will have her picture hanging in the farm store soon or you can wander around to the back of the barn to congratulate her yourself!!!

Ordering is back to being available for Friday, Saturday, or Tuesday pick up.

This week we have some new items:

Tomatillos
Husk cherries
cilantro
parsley
Rosa Bianca eggplants
Green Bell Peppers
Cubanelle Sweet peppers
Shishito peppers

and we will have our garlic available for purchase in the store (hopefully I will have it added to the marketplace next week)

We also thought we’d let you all know that we will be participating in the Home Grown Road Trip this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Stop out and see us and then continue on to other locally owned small businesses in the area. You can find more information on the Home Grown Road Trip Facebook page.

Happy last week of July!!!!

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So we are preparing to take some goats to their new owner/goat show in Iowa this weekend! Wooohooo. And though I’d like to say our goats are in pristine tip top shape, I think they have figured out our plan and continue to get as dirty and hay covered as possible. Relatively speaking we will be the ones in the “working gear” while everyone else are in their “evening gowns”.

That being said we will not have veggie/bread pick ups available on Friday or Saturday. We will be open next Tuesday as usual. Feel free to stop out and get eggs anytime as we still have many many dozens!

We should have our first tomatoes available this week – I’ve listed them as mixed baskets until they are in full swing and may include: Blush, granadero, speckled roman, and cherry bombs. And we will have all three of our eggplant varieties. Two (traviata and ping tung) are listed already and Rosa Bianca will be available for in store pick up depending upon how many ripen in time!

We’ll be back and open our regular hours the following week. Thanks!

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It’s been a busy week with finally finishing getting our second cut of hay in the barn, harvesting 7 varieties of garlic, trying to continue tackling the weeds, and now upping our harvest game.

We have some new offerings from the garden this week including:

eggplants
okra
jalapenos
Lots of leeks
Sunflowers
Radishes

And keep an eye out in the store because we might even be able to pick our first tomatoes!!!