News — raw milk

Today was a good day.  Mae slept well, we all slept well.  We woke up about 6, maybe a little after.  Morning chores and a breakfast made up of eggs from our girls and cheese and milk from Marilyn, along with scallions from our garden.  Very tasty.   We all got cleaned up and got dressed for church.  Mae loves church.  Mostly because she gets to go and play in the playroom for an hour with some of the other kids from church. After church we came back home and had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.  Then some...

Mae slept all night in her own bed and Marilyn blessed us with a beautiful amount of milk last night to make cheese today! On that note we figured we would share how we make soft farm cheese, which can be made with cows milk from the store too. Seriously though who wants store bought milk when you can have fresh goats milk to use? RecipeWe put 1qt of fresh raw goats milk in a large sauce pan on medium heat, stirring frequently and checking the temperature often. Once the milk reaches a temperature of 185 we take it off...

As usual Mae woke up super early like the true farmer she is! We checked on the batch of candles that Dan made last night including our yummy layered smores candle. I set Mae up with a silly youtube video of cartoon animals slopping around in the mud (her laughter at this video is so animated and silly) so that I could let the chickens,ducks and Matilda the Saint rabbit outside and throw the goats more hay. Mae does best if we keep busy, so to work we went cheese making,freezing homegrown kale, dehydrating bananas and blanching our own summer...