We’ve all heard how important it is to eat a diet high in roughage. Likewise, “roughaging” (spending time outdoors) is essential to our mental health. Even if it’s a settee on the porch, we need it, gotta have it. I aim to be the reason you pulled your bedding out the back door last night.
Or should I say, Farm Fashion Month? We really have had a great showing of footwear! It just keeps on giving. I mosied on over to see these treaders yesterday and …
We’re getting ready to sell our milk in our local co-op and also our little downtown store. But first, we had to go through all the state inspections the last few weeks. We passed with flying colors. In fact, when the state inspector walked into our milking “parlor,” he said, “This is the nicest raw milk facility I’ve seen.” (I’m convinced it was the …
Laurie Dimino says: Congratulations MaryJane on your dream come true! Sure do wish I lived close by so I could come and get some of that delicious milk! Good luck in your newest venture!
Hugs,
Laurie
Yes, congratulations on this venture! I grew up drinking milk out of glass gallon jars–from the local dairy and my grandparents’ cows. My gramma churned butter for years. Good memories of good food…thanks for bringing it back.
Christine McCombs says: Congrats! Wish I lived closer to get some! Best to you in your new item! Love the canning jar idea. I use these jars with the plastic lids to store sugar, cornmeal, beans, and etc. Use them also with the regular canning lids and then use my vac sealer on the lids to keep things even fresher! Great for cheese in the fridge, doesn’t mold if left in there for awhile. Doesn’t happen very offen at our house though! Everyone loves Cheese!! God Bless.
MaryJane says: Hi Christine,
My DIL has been turning our extra milk into cheese for several months now. We have an entire fridge full of cheese. You’re right, big YUM!
Winnie Nielsen says: Wow, this is so cool!!! When I grew up, the milk was delivered to our house twice a week in those glass jars with the cream on top. Now the only downside I can remember was when the cows got into the wild spring onions which translated to a slight onion odor and taste( or so us kids insisted!). Do you have the same thing happen out there?
MaryJane says: Actually, we used to have a delivery dairy here but when they threw in the towel in 2005, I bought all their equipment. We worm our cows with garlic on a regular basis and when we do, we make sure to make up batches of “garlic” cheese! Definitely what a cow eats, ends up in the milk.
Joan N. says: Congratulations MaryJane…you are an amazing person!
Ellbee H. says: I was excited to see your milk being sold at the co-op. We tried it right away and my husband and I are enjoying every delicious drop of it. This is what milk is supposed to taste like. Knowing it is fresh, raw, and local makes it simply the best. I really like the glass jars and the lids, too. Do you have plans to sell other products made with your milk, such as plain yogurt?
MaryJane says: Thanks for buying our milk! We truly appreciate it. We give a shout out of daily bottles sold to all involved here at the farm. No, nothing else planned for the immediate future. We want to concentrate on just the milk for now. But maybe we could teach some yogurt and cheese making classes here at the farm? My DIL has mastered making every kind of cheese, etc.
Our bed & breakfast summer intern, Erin (looking a bit like Rosie the Riveter), with her white headband …
I can’t wait for my 4,000+ Sweet Lena Iris to bloom. The little buds are thinking about opening their faces to the sun …
Winnie Nielsen says: You must post a photo when the field is all abloom! No doubt it must be gorgeous !!
MaryJane says: We will, Winnie. Promise. I wish I could send you the FRAGRANCE when you’re standing in the middle of the patch.
Denise Brice says: Good for you! Those of us who live out west know what a blessing rain is! I sure wish you could bottle the scent of your iris! I live in the foothills of the Rockies in southern Colorado, and we’ve been enjoying a bit of rain ourselves. Right now the penstemon are all over excited and in full bloom!
MaryJane says: Blessing indeed. We’d just finished planting our last row of veggies, when it started to rain, 1/2 inch total. Couldn’t have been more perfect. Grow plants, GROW! For this fall, I’ve ordered penstemon. Better to plant in the fall I’m told. I’ve never grown it. Gorgeous!
MaryJane says: Sweet:)
Winnie Nielsen says: We have a number of CSAs locally but what works best for me and hubby is just to go to the farmers market where they sell produce and get what we can use and need. Depending on what is growing, you end up with lots of stuff you cannot always use in the CSA. Plus they also sell their produce at a local Co-op store which was founded by a CSA to provide people with a one-shop experience. So, I am buying CSA produce through two other venues that they all participate in. Works for me!! And I love that photo of swiss chard!! We eat it every week because it is a available. Yum!!
MaryJane says: I’m writing next about the wonders of Farmers’ Markets. Ours is just one big party every Saturday morning! Music, kids galore, brunch, all of it, and more. My husband’s sister started our farmers’ market umpteen years ago. It’s more fun than a CSA, definitely.
Eileen Widman says: I love the tiny Shovel!! Where ever did you get that?
MaryJane says: Hi Eileen,
I found it in a second-hand store so I don’t know if they are still made. I will keep my eyes open and if I find another, it’s yours!
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
I love this new product! Cream top milk was all we had in the 1950s growning up. My Grandparents lived with us and thank heaven Grandma wanted that top cream for her coffee. The rest of us kids were in horror if those sweet cream droplets were floating on top of our glass of milk! Today, I would be sharing that cream for my morning coffee. Funny how what goes around comes back around?!@ Lovely, lovely branding for this latest MJF organic tradition.
Are you marketing it in these bottles?
Hi Eileen,
Yes, we are selling our cream-top milk in re-usable half-gallon glass jars, with plastic re-usable lids, as pictured. Very cool Winnie! It really is neat to see traditional (local & organic!), ways of feeding one’s family coming back around. 🙂 -ace
Thank-you Mary Jane for sending me some milk bottle labels! The graphic design is so perfect for your branding. Beautiful colors, unique design, all on top of a product that brings healthy, sustainable farming to your kitchen and family. What an awesome way to market your delicious milk and what lucky families that get to purchase it at the Food Co-Op.