New Season, New Site, New Dorm Fridge... err Cheese Cave
yes - we said "cheese cave"
Liquore al Basilico - Homemade Basil Moonshine
Liquore al basilico - the original recipe and our batch, Day 3We came back from our honeymoon and not even 24 hours after our return we were already craving, well, EVERYTHING we’d been consuming for the past two weeks. In the morning we longed for a fluffy mound of sheep’s...
Farm Products, What to Charge: Marketing, Price, Calculating Costs, Strategy and Much More
Cross-posted from beginningfarmers.org, an excellent resource for beginning (and existing) farmers. The following is a fantastic guest article that really gives a comprehensive look at what to charge for your farm products. It provides useful information and great insights about marketing, price, calculating production and labor costs, and much more. For even more on this topic, it’s really worth checking out the...
Primosale - Easy Fresh Cheese To Make At Home
freshly made Primosale, almost ready for it's first flipWhen testing my rennet before making mozzarella, I found myself with a cup of fresh curds on my hands. Not wanting to toss them, I decided to try to make primosale (pronounced pre-mow-sa-lay, means "first salt") using the small molds we had...
Movies
Movies A wise man once said, "Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is responsibility." These movies provide amazing insight into some of the critical issues of our day and time. Take your newfound knowledge and act!
Twenty Mile, Three Day Hike with 300 Sheep - You Call that a Honeymoon?
I can hardly believe that it’s already been a week since we were with the sheep. Anversa degli Abruzzi is a small town tucked neatly into the Sagittario Valley between the picturesque mountainsides of Abruzzo, Italy. It was our mission to take Nunzio Marcelli’s sheep flock from Anversa to the top...
Got Heart - Eating The Offal
Pig Heart - freshly cut on the right, cleaned on the left That's right - Heart! Another offal nutritional superstar, heart is rich in iron, niacin, pantothenic acid, phosphorous, riboflavin, selenium, thiamin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and zinc. You can check out heart's nutritional information here. Handling and cleaning the actual...
Water Buffalo First Steps. I melt!
In the area of Salento, Puglia, we visited a Buffalo Mozzarella maker and farm. La Masseria San Biagio is an old farmhouse that now supports a water buffalo herd and creamery as well as extensive wild herb and vegetable gardens, a young fruit orchard, and an educational farm.