Enjoying the new year!

Reminder: This week is meat week, please make sure to collect your share on your appointed day! We also have extra ground beef available for sale, please let us know if you need any.

Things may happen more slowly around here without farmer Tommy to help, but we got some great things done this month. The farm shop has been built and concrete poured! We also installed some heated greenhouse tables that will help our plants get a better start as babies. We have been enjoying some quiet family time even though the weather has been great for getting our projects done. We hope you are taking some time to enjoy a slow cooked meal and visit with family! They grow so fast so we are trying to be intentional with our time.

There are a few labradoodles available as well as 1 black labrador. We also have a few Bernese Mountain Dog puppies that can be reserved for later this month. We don’t plan to have another Bernese litter until later in the year. Check out our puppy website for more details.

Sweet Labrador Male, started on leash and crate training. All ready to go.

We look forward to seeing you this week 2-5 Thursday and Saturday! Make sure you are remembering to make bone broth with your chicken backs and beef bones or pick up some in the farm store to help your body preform well during these last two months of winter!

Blessings,

Your farm family

Have a blessed Christmas! Here's a discount for you!

We have no change to our schedule for the upcoming holidays, pick up will go as usual. If you want to pick up Thursday instead of Saturday please contact us to arrange that. Also please see our new puppy website to see our current cutie pies! Mention this e-mail to receive a special price for your Christmas puppy! We have Labs, Labradoodles, Bernedoodles and Bernese Mountain Dog puppies right now.

The farmers are busy building our new garage to help make work go more smoothly. We are excited to get more organized and spend more time growing great food and less time looking for our tools! We have most of the garden winterized and the greenhouses are stocked and locked! (Locked so the cows don’t find their way in again and eat your food!)

If you didn’t see us on Fox News for our Thanksgiving Turkeys, check it out here, here and here! Three different clips! Aside from the commercial turkeys they show at the start of one clip, which is clearly the opposite of what we do, it was nice to share about sustainable farming.

Love your farmers,

The Bakers

Merry Christmas from the Baker Family! We pray for your peace and joy this season.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for and YOU are on that list! We love to do a thanksgiving tree each year and our community and family and friends top that list! Along with all our puppies, animals and good food!

Sweet little Bernese Mountain Dogs!

We are thankful to have been on fox news for our turkeys. Watch a quick clip here!

We will be doing our pick ups this week on Tuesday instead of Thursday. Delivery will also happen Tuesday (a little earlier in the day than usual). Our Turkey Open House will be from 2-6 Tuesday at the cabin. We have a couple left if you haven’t reserved already, remember we don’t take size requests. We will also have some sweet puppies to visit while picking up your food.

We pray you all have a blessed time of being thankful to the Lord this year for what He has provided.

Blessings,

Your farmers and friends the Bakers

Winter CSA

We hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful fall weather! We had some lovely family time during our “off” weeks. We enjoyed harvesting sweet potatoes in good weather with good friends! We said goodbye to a faithful cow that had served us and you with good laughs and good milk for 12 years. Rosemary was born on our rented farm before we moved here, she spent some time in our basement once when we didn’t have a barn and she got very cold and wet as a calf. We love our dairy cows and spend so much time with them, it’s hard to say goodbye, but the cycle of life is just that way. We are grateful for her!

Rosemary’s daughter Tansy came to visit us at the front porch the other morning! Cows are always doing silly things!

There is still room in the Winter CSA if anyone wants to sign up please do so here!

I love this face! This is one of our Bernedoodles. They are so playful it’s hard to get a still photo!

We also have a wonderful new puppy website for anyone looking for some cute photos or to learn about what sweet puppies we have available! Please visit it here and pass it along to anyone looking for a forever friend.

We look forward to seeing everyone today! Pick up is here Nov. 3 and 5th from 2-5 pm. Come snuggle a puppy and grab your veggies, meat, milk and eggs!

Blessings,

The Bakers

Puppies ready for new homes and Winter CSA openings

Hi Friends and Farm-ily,

It’s been a wonderful season for us while we learn to farm without Tommy. God has blessed us and carried us along when it was hard. Seasons are wonderful as they always change. We are busy getting the gardens and greenhouses ready for winter while enjoying some beautiful weather. The turkeys are happy on pasture and we are ready to take reservations for your Thanksgiving bird here. Pick up will be the Tuesday before Thanksgiving from 2-6 here at the farm.

We have some really cute puppies ready for new homes. We have a litter of Goldendoodles and Toy Poodles! The Goldendoodles will be around 50 pounds and very loving, devoted friends. The toy poodles are so cute and have such fun personalities, they will be less than 10 pounds full grown. See our new website to learn more about them and other upcoming litters.

We will be sending out invoices for the winter CSA to current members next week, if you wish to change your shares please send us an email soon. We have OPENINGS for our WINTER CSA! So let us know soon if you would like s spot. We will have meat, veggie, egg and limited milk openings. We are not offering soap or herbal CSA currently.

We have you are having a blessed Fall and are enjoying the many blessings God provides! We have seen so many mercies along our journey that we are so grateful for our Lord’s provision.

Blessings,

Your farmers and friends! The Bakers

Summer CSA is right around the corner

Planting Kohlrabi, spring is so full of hope. The days may be cloudy and chilly, but warm days and good food are heading this way!

We are excited to have space available in our Summer CSA starting in May. We have openings for Meat, Veggie, Milk and Egg shares. We have been planting lots and it all looks great! We have lots of baby animals being born also. Make sure you look for the new calf, Daffodil, the new baby lambs and we will start having baby chicks out to see in May. Warm weather, good food and good times are coming!

Chicken tea party is great fun when it’s cold outside!

We bought a new rotary shredder for cheese and have found it is so fun and easy to shred the radishes and carrots for on top of salads! I am usually a lazy salad person and just do lettuce, but this is game changing and it’s easy to chew for little folks. Not to mention pretty and delicious! The best part is the little children can use it safely and so they are a big help with dinner prep.

Our pick up schedule for the remaining csa is this week the 14th and 16th, then we have a break before Summer CSA begins May 5th and 7th. We will have milk and eggs available on the “off” weeks and will have veggies for sale in the cabin, self serve. We will be enjoying a staycation for our family to revive after a difficult season and we will be getting new systems in place to make running our farm without our biggest farmer boy, Tommy, more manageable for us all. Prayers are appreciated as we navigate each new season and allow God to gently lead us through our grief. We are so thankful for a patient and kind, loving God to help in this and all seasons. And for our community who is being used by God to minister to us! We are thankful for you all.

Blessings,

Your farmers

The sunshine was wonderful!

Loving the herbal tea on these cold rainy days, yesterday we had it iced!

We hope you all got some free Vit. D yesterday. It was not in stock today! What a rainy, cold day. But it helps us remember to enjoy the sun when it does shine! God is gently leading us through this tender season, we are so grateful for that.

This week we have lovely greens still happy as can be in the greenhouses. Chard, Arugula and Napa cabbage. We love to have the chard sautéed with onions or garlic, the arugula is great as salad with some beets and oil and vinegar or a nice creamy dressing and the napa is my favorite winter green. We love it chopped small as salad with some shredded carrots or cooked into a stir-fry! Eating with the seasons has so many health benefits. The watermelon radish is also great shredded on salad, and oh I love the taters! We had roasted sweet potatoes tonight with a sausage stir fry with some frozen peppers from last summer and a side salad. So yum!

A few days ago I roasted two chickens and pulled the meat off the bones and put them right into a pot for broth (along with my veggie peelings) and then had chicken for several meals to create easy fast meals. The chicken goes great on the napa cabbage salad. Our favorite homemade salad dressing is just 1 part vinegar, 1 part honey or maple syrup and 2 parts olive oil.

We are busy planting all the spring cabbage and broccoli, not to mention tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and flowers and herbs! Where does the winter go? Well this year I am very ready for spring. We usually want some more time to hibernate, but not this year. The sunshine is so welcome even it means the time for slow winter evenings will end for us soon.

We brought two of Tommy’s sheep back to the farm and Grace will be in charge of them. We still have some of his lambs from last year that are keeping the girls company. They will have their lambs in March and April. We look forward to that with excitement!

Dates to remember:

Meat delivery Thursday next week and pick up Thursday and Saturday. 2-5 pm. Don’t forget to look for your add on shares as well. We still have some lamb available for your Easter dinner, please e-mail for details.

Blessings,

The Baker Team

Meat CSA today!

We are enjoying the snow even though it makes more work! Just a quick reminder that meat CSA is today from 2-5 and Saturday from 2-5. We hope you are enjoying all the winter goodies! The sweet potatoes are still plentiful and I love chopping them and roasting them with other root crops. We also have been enjoying fried cabbage and lots of meat balls! Madison makes a great meatball recipe like this one.

We still have some extra pork and lamb if you’d like to grab come today or Saturday, it’s available to anyone! Thanks!

Blessings,

The Baker Family