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Farm-to-Market: Island Grown Farmers Cooperative

by Jenni P. @ Monday, September 8th, 2008.

Last fall, my family and I followed the route Dunlop’s hogs take from farm to market. We started at Lopez Island Farm, 100 miles north of Seattle, where they’re raised and slaughtered, and visited the facility where the slaughter trailer pulls up with carcasses to be turned into cuts.

Garage-top garden

by Jenni P. @ Sunday, February 17th, 2008.

Witchhazel is blooming at my house, a sign that spring is nearly here. I’m planning my garden, which will be my second one ever, if it comes to fruition.
I started my first garden by reading piles of books. I spent the winter lingering over every kitchen garden book Amazon had to offer, littering my […]

The experts have spoken: Grass-fed beef is worth the cost

by Jenni P. @ Friday, February 1st, 2008.

Consumers Union, the nonprofit advocacy group that tests products and publishes its results in Consumer Reports, says grass-fed beef is likely better for human and soil health. 
In the magazine’s March 2008 "claim check" column (not yet online), Consumer Reports asks, “Is grass-fed beef better?” The answer:
CR’s take. This beef could have benefits. The limited […]

Go goat: Finding goat dairy products

by Jenni P. @ Tuesday, January 8th, 2008.

Since goats have provided almost all of our dairy for the last year or so — thank goodness for goats! — when I read Elanor’s resolution to go goat in 2008, I felt inspired to offer tips for finding great-tasting goat dairy products.

Flood assistance for Washington farmers

by Jenni P. @ Tuesday, December 11th, 2007.

Dairy cows were among the victims of Washington’s floods. Photo by Mike Kane for the Seattle P-I.

Washington and Oregon suffered disastrous rain and wind for days starting on December 1, and farms in southwest Washington were hit particularly hard. Some dairies dumped their milk when a 20-mile section of I-5 closed and the milk couldn’t […]

Cheese Baby visits the Estrella Family Creamery

by Jenni P. @ Tuesday, September 18th, 2007.

Delighted by her love of cheese, Anthony and his wife Kelli, who makes the cheese from the raw cow and goat milk produced on their farm, invited the Cheese Baby to the Estrella Family Creamery cave christening, held Saturday night…. Samuel OK’d our request after warning us not to let the buck pee on us. We limited our visit to the mama goats and their kids, which must be bottle fed, guessing by how enthusiastically they greeted us. We returned to the party and found Anthony among friends in the garden…. Kelli said a few words of thanks before the family’s pastor offered a blessing, and then Chef Roy Breimann of the Salish Lodge conducted the christening, opening the champagne with a saber and a blessing of his own, which he credited to Napoleon: “in good times you deserve it, and in bad you need it.”… These ceremonies were succeeded by a remarkable feast, including roast veal, spit-roasted baby goat, grilled salmon, mussels, heirloom potatoes, farro salad with root vegetables, and of course a selection of Estrella cheeses, the cheese table having been moved from the garden to the light-string- and candle-lit supper tents by tractor…. We thus finished our meal with two Estrella creamery products that we can’t buy at the farmers’ market: whipped cream, which isn’t available because the cream usually goes into the cheese, and butter, which isn’t available because it’s illegal to sell unpasteurized butter in the state of Washington.

Guest post: Keeping goats in Seattle

by Jenni P. @ Thursday, September 6th, 2007.

Still, Jennie did try, since you can’t keep farm animals on your Seattle lot unless it’s 20,000 square feet or larger —and who has nearly half an acre in the city?… A distant neighbor who had never seen the goats overheard her talking about them at a party —and turned her in. When the inspector told her she couldn’t keep her goats, Jennie approached city councilmember Richard Conlin and asked whether he could help her persuade the city’s Department of Planning and Development to allow her to keep the goats.

Guest Post: Crown S Ranch Field Trip

by Jenni P. @ Monday, July 31st, 2006.

Man of La Muncha here: One of our readers, Jenni, is one of the organizers of the Montlake Meat CSA, which will share a beef purchase from Crown S Ranch. She writes about her field trip to the ranch earlier in July. Seattle-area readers who are interested in the meat CSA are welcome […]

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