Blazing fall, Sweet cheese

This is the week that the remaining leaves blew off the trees. I was able to capture on film our maple tree ablaze in yellow and orange “flames” before she was denuded.  The backdrop of standing corn stocks in late afternoon haze also hints at the unusual fall we have had. It IS November, yet the corn is still standing. 
As I write, the combines are out and the crop residue dust hangs in the air, so the fields will be bare pretty soon too. It appears that our goat breeding season is winding down. The bucks are relaxed-lots of lounging and cud chewing going on, very little jealous snorting through the fences. The girls seem “settled” (the livestock term for being “knocked up.”) We are probably going to have a VERY busy March.

Market Offerings
This Saturday is our last outdoor market in Urbana. Ironically, the weather is supposed to be warm (in the mid 60’s) and sunny—a fitting end to a frigid fall market season. It also marks the return of the Green City Market to the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum on Canon Drive in Chicago, just north of Fullerton.  We’ve also decided to offer a very limited supply of our cheeses to the 61^st Farmers’ Market at the Experimental Station on Chicago’s South Side. Dennis Ryan, the 61^st Market Manager, will have a table set up with our cheeses. Both Chicago Markets continue until mid to late December, and we plan to have cheese available for our Chicago customers right up to the holiday season.

This week we will have the following cheeses available:
Fresh Chevre: the usual suspects of plain, herbs de Provence and cracked black peppercorn
Limited supply of Angel Food
Lots of wonderfully creamy Little Bloom on the Prairie—this cheese is part of the Pastoral-William Sonoma holiday gift selection of American Midwest Cheeses check it out:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/fd772/?pkey=ccheese
last of the Ewe Bloom—it’s really ripe and ready to eat—on sale at 50% off the regular price—gooey, stinky cheese lovers rejoice

Krotovina—also the last of the season; not quit as ripe as the Ewe Bloom, but it is best if enjoyed this week
Roxanne
Moonglo
In addition to cheese, we will be selling some beautiful beeswax candles that Molly has hand crafted. They smell of warm honey—delicious!
Given the rave reviews of our goat cheesecakes, we are going to offer these for Thanksgiving.  Stay tuned for details about placing pre-orders.