Grumpy Goat Experiment

So Many Eggs!!!

We have sooooooo many eggs right now. It’s egg salad, quiche, and deviled egg time. Please help up eat them. This week only we’ll have eggs for $2.50 a dozen!!!

Also new this week we will have the first of our garlic scapes! I only have a few bunches listed though I suspect by Friday we’ll have some more so if it is zeroed out already leave me a comment that you would like some and we’ll save a bunch for you!

We’ve been busy on the farm. Our last field is being planted as we speak and rotary hoeing and row cultivating have already begun on the other fields. Being organic means we can’t just spray herbicides and call it done until harvest.

The garden is also in dire need of weeding, what’s new. The okra finally got out planted using our ‘new’ antique transplanter. We are fighting some blackflies(aphids) on our fava beans though are hopeful it won’t affect our harvest too much. From the looks of it next week we should be able to offer some fava beans, fennel, and kohlrabi!

Time to get back out in the garden…but again…please help us eat some eggs!!!!

Slight Change to hours!

Just note that Tuesdays hours should have said 2:00-6:30pm! So come on down for some fresh greens and some seed starts starting today!!!!

Summer is here!!!!

Summer is here as are the Grumpy Goat Farm store summer hours! Feel free to pre order and pick up, or stop in and shop at any of the following times:

• Tuesday 4-6:30 at the Farm

• Friday 4-6:30 at the Farm

• Saturday 8am-12pm at the Farm

• Saturday 8am-12pm at the Sidney Farmers Market

The store will be set up completely self serve as we can hardly manage the garden, baking, and fields much less also manning the store. Come right in the barn and help yourselves. Matt’s number is listed on the chalk board in case you need to get a hold of one of us.

All pre-ordered items will be clearly marked with a tag for how much is owed. Feel free to add other items to your shopping and check yourselves out.

This week we have some beautiful Grandma Hadley’s lettuce ready for eating. And we will also be selling off our extra vegetable seedlings. Get them Tuesday or Friday before we take them to the Sidney Market!!! (the seedlings will not be at the Farm on Saturday)

And disregard the fact that there is still a missing wall in the farm store! Consider it an open air market with a delightful view of an old combine and filled hay loft! Let us know if you have any questions! Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

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The market is open for orders! Pick ups are on Tuesday 2-6:30 in the store front.

We are still really busy cooking syrup and waiting on the last two goats to kid. Feel free to swing into the barn when you pick up your order and visit the kids!

There are some new soaps added to the market this week : Lemon Poppyseed, Ylang ylagng lavender and orange, and peppermint.

Now back to cooking syrup. Enjoy the warmth!

2021 Syrup is here!!!

We’ve finally been able to add the first of our 2021 maple syrup to the market. 4.375 gallons have been bottled this week with more to come tomorrow. I don’t think we will reach the 33 gallons bottled in 2020 due to the extended cold in February and what looks like might be a quick warm up in March. Time will tell.

Along with manning our sugar shack we have also been prepping our seed beds in the garden and have been glued to our barn cam awaiting the arrival of our goat kids. Still none yet but they can’t hold out forever!

We’ll make sure we let you all know when the store front is open again (we haven’t made much progress yet). Hopefully in April, but for now please continue to pre-order and pick up on Tuesdays! Thanks for your patronage!

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Finally the sap is flowing and we are boiling away! It is about a month later than we started last year. We are not complaining though because we loved having a few snowy weeks.

The winter down time is over.
We’ll be starting our goat kid watch this weekend as we celebrate Matt’s birthday! We are hoping to start more veggie seeds this week too now that the tunnels are warming up.

A bunch of new soap was added to the market last week with more to come next week. So keep an eye out. We also added some blueberry maple jam and blueberry rhubarb maple jam last week. They are a delicious tribute to my love of blueberry pancakes!

Enjoy the warmth and see you all soon.

Where has January Gone!!!

We hope everyone is having a lovely winter. We are gearing up to start tapping maple trees whenever the weather decides to turn, and will be planting our onions inside this week! Secretly I’m hoping it will stay cold for another month…but I’m not sure I’ll be so lucky.

The market is open for ordering this week! The chickens continue to amaze us with a bounty of eggs so please come and get some! We have begun to offer our ‘little chicks’ the option to go outside this week – as they are no longer so little. So far they just stand in the doorway and look out into the big wide world, unable to take the leap onto the grass.

I have listed a new batch of Hot Pepper Jam – made this week, with our own organic bell, jalapeno, and cayenne peppers.

There will also be new soap added weekly. Matt was nice enough to gift me a beautiful soap cutter and make a couple loaf molds recently. My goal is to have new offerings each week. This weeks new bars include:
100% coconut oil,
Goat Milk Lemon Eucalyptus,
Goat Milk Almond Oatmeal,
Goat Milk Orange Patchouli Rosemary Hearts,
Goat Milk Heart Bundles,
and Goat Milk Citrus Explosion.

And our Soap Sale continues with what remains from our 2020 soap. The bars are still perfectly good but going at a discounted rate to make way for the new varieties!!!

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Happy New Year!

Just a quick FYI that ordering will be open until Sunday evening for Tuesdays pick up! As I mentioned before the store is not open for shopping as we are renovating. So please pre order. We will have them ready for you.

Also the chickens have been laying better than they have all year- so get your eggs!!!!

And seeds are ordered! Fresh, organic, veggies are coming!!!

Popcorn!

We’ve finally added our organic popcorn to the market. The listing is for 1lb of our small kernel on the cob popcorn ( about 4 ears) for $2.

The store is still stocked with all our holiday trees, gnomes, birdhouses, soap, jam, yarn, etc. if you need a last minute present stop in on Tuesday! This Tuesday will be our last market for the year as we will be taking 2 weeks off! (I’ll be closing this weeks ordering down Sunday night to allow myself time to prepare orders). For January, February, March we will reopen for orders but will not have the store stocked as it’s getting a bit too chilly out in the barn!

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season, and if we don’t see you this week we will see you in the new year!

Happy Holidays!

We’ve updated the online store to include some of the holiday items we’ve been working on.

Matt has made quite a few birdhouses, bot bluebird sized and smaller wren sized ones.

He has also stocked up on barnwood trees, which some of you might remember from last year. These are great table toppers or on the mantle. Some are more rustic than others but they add a nice whimsy to the decor.

We have also added some of our hand made gnomes. These are stuffed with our own farm wool and weighted with dried black beans while being adorned with our own Pygora Fiber.

If you have any specific requests, or if something is sold out by the time you see it, don’t hesitate to reach out. We are more than willing to do some custom orders!

We are can also work with anyone if picking up Tuesdays doesn’t work. Just email us and we can figure something out!

Wishing you all much health and happiness in these trying times.

brette