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June 20th Market Offerings
6/19/2009 1:07pm by Leslie Cooperband or Wes Jarrell
This week's transformation from spring to summer was abrupt. Last night's air was so still, hot and thick, it reminded me of a mid July evening. Fireflies are dazzling us with their annual light show over the emerging corn and soybean fields as well as our alfalfa field. The "girls" are out on pasture every day, except during torrential downpours, and their milk reflects the pasture rich diet they are consuming. This means that there are a lot more "critters" in their milk that result in greater diversity of molds and bacteria growing on the cheeses, especially our raw milk cheeses. Some of you may have noticed that the rind of the Roxanne is very different in color than it was a month ago. This too is related to the Amish dairy sheep spending more of their time grazing on pastures and eating a lot less hay. Check out the photo of Roxanne, the cheese, on our website (under "Our cheeses") to see the contrasting rinds.
Market offerings for this Saturday
We will be doing three farmers' markets this Saturday, June 20th: Urbana, Greeen City Market and Oak Park.
We have a good supply of:
Chevre
Ewe Bloom
Little Bloom on the Prairie
We have a limited supply of:
Prairie Blazing Star Banon--our "all Illinois" version of a provencal banon-soft ripened chevre wrapped in a sycamore leaf from our farm that has been soaked in an IL chambourcin wine. Beautiful presentation, and delicate slightly enolic flavor on the cheese.
Roxanne
Angel Food
Next week:
Krotovina returns along with our end of the month offering of whole goat milk ricotta
Moonglo and Roxanne will return in early July.
Farm Dinners
All but the "Illinois Fish Tale" Dinner are now sold out. We do receive cancellations, so you can send me an email to be put on a waiting list if you have your eye on a particular dinner. Just let me know how many seats you would like to have should spots open up.
Market offerings for this Saturday
We will be doing three farmers' markets this Saturday, June 20th: Urbana, Greeen City Market and Oak Park.
We have a good supply of:
Chevre
Ewe Bloom
Little Bloom on the Prairie
We have a limited supply of:
Prairie Blazing Star Banon--our "all Illinois" version of a provencal banon-soft ripened chevre wrapped in a sycamore leaf from our farm that has been soaked in an IL chambourcin wine. Beautiful presentation, and delicate slightly enolic flavor on the cheese.
Roxanne
Angel Food
Next week:
Krotovina returns along with our end of the month offering of whole goat milk ricotta
Moonglo and Roxanne will return in early July.
Farm Dinners
All but the "Illinois Fish Tale" Dinner are now sold out. We do receive cancellations, so you can send me an email to be put on a waiting list if you have your eye on a particular dinner. Just let me know how many seats you would like to have should spots open up.
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