A Recipe for Parsley…

Do you recall all the parsley in my garden in a previous post (it’s actually about half of the parsley in my garden)? Well, if you have lots of fresh parsley, here’s a recipe that perhaps you’d like to try… TABOULI. First, a few facts about parsley. Parsley is a biennial – that means it comes [...]

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Armada Fair Results…and the winner is…!

Hi all!
Boy, it’s been a wild and crazy two weeks! The Armada Fair is the culmination of months of hard work for 4-H’ers exhibiting both animals and still projects. Katie had a very successful and rewarding show. Her goats were very well behaved while at Fair and ‘on exhibit’ as well as in the show ring: [...]

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I’m back…from Castle Farm’s Fiber Festival!

I’m happy to report I’m back from Charlevoix’s Castle Farm Fiber Festival. It was wonderful to visit old fiber friends and meet and talk with new artisans too! The show was full-up with 60 vendors! There was so much beautiful fiber works and fiber-related art (in many medias…leather, sculpture, rug-hooking, jewelry, etc). Something for everyone to be [...]

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Jet has a New Home!

Hello my dear friends!
I’m happy to report, Jet, my Alpine wether (that’s what we call a castrated buck), has found a wonderful new home with his new owner, Carl. YIPPEE! Carl is 10-years-old and is quite the helper around the farm! He plans to join 4-H and show Jet in pack and agility! Jet has ‘personality [...]

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Chevre means “Goat”

Holly, my daughter’s Alpine doe.

If you visit any country in the world, you’ll probably find cheese on the table! Through history, cheese appeared on the scene only after man domesticated animals. It’s not hard to imagine a biblical David with a bag of dried curds hanging from his belt as he delivered cheese and drink [...]

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