Chicama Run Family Farm

So I'm into bread at the moment. What's better than the smell of fresh bread in the house? I'm not a huge bread EATER - but my new recipes are changing my mind. They aren't sweet - just yummy! I'm working on making a superior sourdough artisan bread and today a whole wheat bread.

We'll see - but chances are you all will see some of my new breads for sale if I can get the recipe "just right."

Alexis went out and took these pictures this morning - SUCH CUTE LITTLE ONES!!

It's always exciting and busy starting this time of year - for some reason the weather kicks us into high gear. It's like all of a sudden - WOOSH - we need to do stuff. Of course the goal of the winter was to get all this done - but we enjoyed the winter huddled in the house doing house-hold "stuff" that would never get done in the spring.

The biggest thing people get on us about is ordering beef. We love you all doing this - and it's always a work in progress what the BEST way to do it is. I think this year we are doing well with how we are doing it. The difference is that I am personally going over cut sheets with people. So it will add the personal touch to it and also I can walk everyone through what is sometimes an overwhelming process. Of course I am still lost sometimes at what I want and I have YET to find a cut sheet from any butcher I actually like so I work it out myself :)

Of course people are used to our stuff selling out - so orders are already coming in - within hours of posting that it was available we had or first 1/2 steer sold. EXCITING!!!

A customer emailed me this morning and I actually read the entire story. It makes me angry - especially since I have a lot of people confront me with the cost of our food (especially eggs lately). Yes - it's higher - but do you know who and what is going on at the farm your eggs are from?

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-price-of-tomatoes?currentPage=1

I'd love some comments on this article and opinions. Either way.

Who can resist such cute furballs?? Now understand.... I sent Jacob and Alexis out to take pictures and told them I needed to know which are girls and which are boys..... you get the idea from the pictures :)