CSA

CSA, Community Supported Agriculture!  Our family farm, Otte Heritage Farms, is offering a produce CSA for the 2012 season.  Our CSA will provide fresh fruit and veggies each week. You have a choice of a bushel size box or a half bushel size box for a certain price.  It is an exciting program for people to get involved in to get fresh local produce.  It will help your way of life in many ways by improving health and helping your local community by buying local. 

Tonight I hope to start a new cheese experiment, updates later.

Small town safety

I have lived in a rural and safe location all of my life.  Our safe, not locking our doors way of life has been abruptly halted.  About 3 months ago there was a double homicide about five country blocks away from here.  Now threre was a robbery with very similar characteristics on the other side of the county.  What are we suppose to do, why do things have to be this way?  What is the motive?  I mean really is this all drug related, I think so.  I just wonder to myself as a mother of three boys, what would these criminals mothers be saying or thinking?  Did they do something to turn them in the wrong direction or was it their friends?  What can I do to prevent this?  So many questions and no answers.

Back to Basics

My husband and I are in the process of starting our own dairy where we will milk our own cows, bottle milk, yogurts, sour cream, and make cheese.This is an exciting time for us because we already are involved in low impact farming in season with our produce and meats we raise and we wanted to expand.  I am really excited about the opportunity to provide the products my family enjoys on a daily basis to others.  We all have the right to know where our food comes from and how it becomes our food.  I have been experiementing in my kitchen with many recipes for yogurts and cheeses.  The yogurt is simple, it is smooth and creamy, yet tangy.  This flavor will take a while to get used too since we are all used to the sugar concentrated varieties we buy at the stores.  We plan on specializing in raw milk cheese, the flavor is soooooooooo much better, just wait you will see.