August 10, 2016
Vanessa is helping in the garden and this bed has Crimson clover cover crops on it now. We build our soil and the soil grows our food part of that includes cover cropping it rest the bed and feeds it as we cut down the cover crops the roots compost under ground and the cut down clover mulches above...
August 8, 2016
Well we finished the apple butter and as the recipee stated the whole house smells so good....
August 8, 2016
This is a first time for us on the farm to make apple butter so in doing the research we found a recipe that said to leave apple peels and cores in as they contain natural pectin that makes the apple butter set up on its own. We fed the farm animals the left over Apple matter after we used a food...
August 8, 2016
Took a break from apple butter to receive our organic feed delivery. We have to give a shout out to Modesto milling for making all the organic feed we need. Being animal welfare approved is a huge resposibility we found it nearly impossible to get the required feed for our different farm animals...
August 8, 2016
using our hierloom farm apples we are turning 15 pounds of apples into canned apple butter. As we were growing up apple butter and pork chops are a staple for our family dinners and having our own fruit we can make organic apple butter. Always something new to learn on the farm....





