Farm Living

Class begins soon! We’re looking forward to a super semester! #science #electricity #magnets #renewableenergy #homeschool

Friends, a baked macaroni and cheese casserole is a tradition for our family Thanksgiving dinner. When all the children were still home, we asked them to help with the meal and as the years passed they would ask to prepare a particular dish each year. Our menu usually included sweet potatoes,

Soon farmers and gardeners will harvest those pickling cucumbers. Whether you grow them yourself or purchase them from the farmers market, cucumbers are a very popular crop that are usually bound to be eaten in a pickled form. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/233542/refrigerator-dill-pickles/

Hello farm friends. If you're finished with your fall decorations and need a way to get rid of them, look no further for we will gladly receive them. Your pumpkins, squash, Indian corn, hay or straw bales even the mums are welcome here! Our animals can eat most of the decor and the rest can be

The farm can be a great place to delve into a S.T.E.M. or S.T.E.A.M. related project or study. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math are constantly in use here is some way or another. Our building project involve measuring and tools, angles and shapes. Our soil health efforts, composting

I bake bread for customers regularly, I’m actually baking today. While on the King Arthur Baking Company website I noticed a reference to this article about the importance of or the reaction to salt when baking a recipe that calls for salt. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2020/07/29/wh

This article is about Farmer and chef Matthew Railford. Read more and find a few Gullah Geechee recipes that you may want to try soon! https://vassar.cafebonappetit.com/gullah-geeche/ “CheFarmer (a combination of chef + farmer) Matthew Raiford recently published his first cookbook, Bress ‘n’ N

Did you know? We process poultry and regularly have to calculate the amount to charge based on USDA recommended pricing and our costs. This article does a great job of explaining the differences between raising ducks and chickens and why duck meat is more expensive. https://familyfarmlivestock.c

Most of the time when you hear someone mention a recipe that includes pumpkin it’s a sweet dessert or a caffeinated beverage. We’re hosting an event in conjunction with our Fall Farm Frolic to showcase savory pumpkin dishes. Chef Alex Curtis will prepare vegan dishes that include pumpkin as the ma

Each time we prepare for a Gullah Campfire Supper with Stories and Songs event we select a chef to feature and our menu choices. The first supper in February for Black History Month featured South Carolina peach farmer and author Dori Sanders. We know Ms. Sanders personally and speak with her n

Hello Farm Friends! We are thinking about kids and teens out there and how they are doing with science. As 4-H volunteers who host clubs we are posting activities from the national headquarters that are available so kids and families can do projects at home during the pandemic. This article is t

You’ve no doubt heard about shrimp and grits and eaten it a few times. It’s one of our favorite Lowcountry meals but one you’ve probably not heard much about is shrimp and okra. Yes, that’s right, we eat shrimp and okra on the regular around here. Local shrimp is delicious and available at reasona

Several years ago the acronym S.T.E.M. was all the rage in the schools and in the 4-H community. With children who were then 4-H members and we parents serving as volunteers we were in training and workshops that centered around Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. A few years latter, Art b

If you’re eating lots of salads this summer and want a delicious dressing to match then give this recipe from Natasha’s Kitchen a try. https://natashaskitchen.com/italian-dressing/ #eathealthy #saladdressing

Farm Friends, zucchini is in abundance by now and you may be trying to find recipes that will help you use them before they go bad.  We decided to try this recipe for our Sunday supper.  It was a side dish for the baked salmon.  Alternating the zucchini and the tomatoes. We used a variety of toma

Farm Friends you may be wondering why the price of eggs is rising. We know one reason, the price of feed is rising. Even though we allow our fowl to free range they need to have a supplement as they can’t depend only on what they can find. This article is about a chicken farmer facing the same ri

We thought you foodies would enjoy this recipe that appeared in a blog post is from Hoover's Hatchery. Fall is a cozy time of year full of baked treats, pumpkin spice lattes and rich foods. While we love all these things at our house, sometimes our bodies crave nutritious, colorful food. This fal

While walking around one of our campsites after days of afternoon and evening storms and rain showers we took pictures of a variety of mushrooms. A couple show the gills on the underside, they would be great for making gill prints. #fungi #mushrooms #mushroomgills #gillprints

It’s almost blueberry season and here’s a gluten-free blueberry bread recipe that you might want to try. If you do try it please share the results or share your go to, favorite blueberry loaf recipe. #foodie #blueberries #glutenfree https://30seconds.com/food/tip/amp-12606/Blueberry-Lemon-Loaf-

Join us on the farm for our next Gullah Campfire Supper with Stories and Song, Saturday, March 26 @6:30. There are brilliant Gullah women speaking, sisters Dr. Millicent Brown and Ms. Minerva King from Charleston and an out of this world hog roast by Gullah farmer Marvin Ross of Peculiar Pig Farm.

Do you forage for or purchase and eat Lion’s Mane mushrooms? We forage on our property and harvested Lion’s Mane last weekend. A neighbor also harvested some from a nearby property. It’s common to find it this time of year on oak or a few other hard wood trees growing from crevices or wounds. Keep

What’s for supper? “Daa haa”! Tony @amjones42 on IG, said when his maternal grandmother Annie Goode made this dish it was a combination of a few day’s worth of leftovers maybe with one one ingredient. It was a little bit if this and that she called “daa haa”. So yesterday some leftover daa haa w

Rice is a huge ingredient in the Gullah Geechee diet. Usually not a meal is served without rice being served, even on the side. Our family resembles that statement. Both Tony and I grew up in households that cooked in the Gullah food tradition. We ate rice far more than pasta or potatoes. Ri

You may have heard lots about avocado toast, you may eat lots of avocado toast. Well, this morning I tried avocado toast. Avocados are not new to me, I really like them but I was not introduced to them until I was an adult. I grew up in a Black community, in a town greatly influenced by Black, S

For quite some time most restaurants were closed during the Covid-19 pandemic which meant more meals were being prepared at home. How did the pandemic change the way you've been eating during the pandemic? Have you discovered new recipes to try if so what's your favorite?

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the definition of ‘foodie’ is “a person who loves food and is very interested in different types of food”. It can also mean a person who explores food in different cultures and seeks to eat dishes from restaurants featuring foods from those cultures to collect