Anyone know of any? A friend of ours was asking, and I wasn’t sure what to recommend. There are plenty of books devoted to the home cheesemaker. But we’re looking for a book that covers home dairy animals – selection, breeding, milking, management, birthing, the whole shebang. A section on home cheesemaking would be a [...]
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A good home dairy book
Posted in Miscellaneous, Musings, tagged Cheese Making, dairy goats, goat care, goat KIDS!, goats milk soap on June 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Check out this beauty
Posted in Farm Happenings, tagged Cheese Making, goat's milk, goats, spring mill farm on May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Friday night we split open the first of HB’s experimental Valencay-style cheese. Is it not beautiful? According to artisinalcheese.com, Valençay is one of the classic raw milk mold-ripened chèvres from the Loire Valley in the central western region of France. This pasteurized version of young goat’s milk cheese is distinctly identified by its pyramid form [...]
Bobby Flay, meet the dairy goats!
Posted in Farm Happenings, goat, Miscellaneous, tagged Cheese Making, goat's milk, goats on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week the CBS Early Morning Show had a segment on goat cheese featuring Bobby Flay and Rainbeau Ridge goat cheese. You can view the segment here. Part of the segment focuses on the versatility of goat cheese. The ladies at Rainbeau Ridge have produced a cookbook with this focus, entitled Over the Rainbeau. The [...]
growing like weeds
Posted in farm, Farm Happenings, Foodie, goat, Musings, tagged abba, Cheese Making, donut, doris day, fred astaire, goat KIDS!, goats, humphrey bogart, memphis, Musings, rock hudson, spring mill farm, sweet roll, xenia on April 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The goat kids are growing like weeds. I weighed them the other night, they average around 30 pounds, just over one month old. Fred and Bogart (Memphis’ kids) are the biggest, and the youngest. Their bone structure is much more substantial, while Rock and Doris (Abba’s kids) are taller, leaner, but weigh more than you [...]
Spotlight on Local Goat Dairies
Posted in Farm Happenings, Foodie, Miscellaneous, tagged Cheese Making, dreams, goat's milk, goats, keep it local, spring mill farm on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, a Charlottesville-area television station had a short segment on local goat dairies. Included in the spotlight were Night Sky Farm of Brookneal, Caramont Farm of Esmont, Goats R Us of Blackstone, and Iron Rod Chevre of Earlysville. You can view the clip on the Edible Blue Ridge website. *** It’s been a very [...]
Culture magazine
Posted in Foodie, Miscellaneous, tagged Cheese Making, goat's milk, goats, Musings on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last fall HB stumbled upon a cheese magazine entitled Culture. Two copies were given to him by the owners of a local meat & cheese shop. At $10/each, this wasn’t a cheap gift. HB brought the magazines home and we devoured them. Great articles, beautiful photographs, and delicious cheeses filled every page. One of the [...]
Not-Camembert, Take Two
Posted in Farm Happenings, Foodie, tagged Cheese Making, goat's milk, goats, jacqsonne, spring mill farm on February 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In November 2009, using the last gallon of milk from Anita, HB attempted to make a goat’s milk Camembert. Nearly two months later, we decided to try the cheese. What we had wasn’t Camembert, but rather something much harder. HB took a sample with us to Caromont to review it with Gail Hobbs-Page, and it [...]
It’s quiet around here
Posted in Farm Happenings, Musings, tagged Cheese Making, chickens, Musings on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Happy Valentine’s Day! We woke up yesterday morning to more snow falling softly to the ground – it’s amazing the amount of snow we’ve received in central Virginia this year. We did our morning chores while snowflakes chased us around the farm. Luckily, the Chocolate Challenge was still on, just delayed a little bit. I [...]
A secret to making delicious chevre
Posted in Farm Happenings, Foodie, tagged Cheese Making, goat's milk, goats, spring mill farm on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Our secret to making delicious chevre is using this little monkey to hold the bag while it drains. But you know what this means, don’t you? We’re making chevre. From our own goat’s milk. That I milked from our own dairy goat. That would be, the very lovely Jacqsonne. How cool is that!?! Of course, [...]
A Vist to Caromont
Posted in Farm Happenings, tagged Cheese Making, goats on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the lucky connection of a darling friend, HB and I were able to make a visit to Caromont Farm today. Back in August, we hosted a “Flavors of Virginia” wine and cheese tasting for my work group and used Caromont’s Farmstead Chevre as our starting course (paired, if you’re curious, with Ablemarle CiderWork’s [...]
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30 chirpy chicks, 11 happy horses, 11 inquisitive goats, 2 loving dogs, 2 independent cats, a large garden, and a small vineyard in South Central Virginia. We love our farm, our animals, making wine and cheese, and our local farmer's market. Follow our story here.2010 Kid-O-Meter
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