Farm and Market Happenings

This week’s cool weather tricked the goats into thinking it was time to breed.  Out in the pasture, they were head butting and mounting each other—behaviors reserved for much later in the fall.   Their pastures are pretty lush, and there’s nothing more satisfying than watching goats enjoy their forage. If the weather gets hot again, they'll surely resume their summer lounging.

Our garden continues to offer up harvestable gems—all purple, all red and fingerling potatoes, patty pan squash, beets of several colors and red, purple and orange carrots. Our farm dinner this Saturday ("Steak, Smoke and Fire") will feature all of these delectable veggies along with a bovine homage  (check out the menu on our website under Dinners on the Farm, Buy Dinners, July 25th—it will knock your socks off).

This week at the markets we will be bringing the following to Urbana Market at the Square, Green City Market and Oak Park Farmers’ Market:

Lots of fresh Chevre—plain, Herbs de Provence and cracked black peppercorn
Little Bloom on the Prairie
Angel Food
Roxanne
Ewe Bloom
AND the 2009 season Moonglo—our raw goat milk tomme washed with a “tea” made from the leaves of the Moonglo pear found in our orchard.
This early lactation version of Moonglo is a bit drier than you may remember if you tried the late lactation truer-to-a-washed rind cheese. It has a nice sharp flavor and would be excellent paired with some fresh or poached peaches.

We will also have more of the early season honey in both 8 and 16 oz. jars.
A few blackberries might make a surprise appearance if we harvest enough on Friday.
As always, we look forward to seeing you at the markets on Saturday.