Thanksgiving is less than a week away! Adam and I thought we would share some of our favorite fall recipes, including a very simple roast turkey recipe. What are your favorite fall recipes? Any Thanksgiving dishes that you can’t live without? Edible Michiana recently featured Adam’s turkey recipe in their November Newsletter and Events Calendar. If you haven’t signed up yet for Edible’s newsletter, you can visit their facebook page and send them a message with your email address. Once [...]
Hi, folks! I wanted to let you know I have started a new blog at Goshen Commons, a community website run by the Goshen College communications department. The blog is called “Hoof and Wing: Raising Pigs in the Woods and Other Time-Consuming Hobbies.” I’ll be posting there every Thursday for the foreseeable future. This will be a place for me to write about my personal experience with farming, gardening, and other projects. My story is only one-fifth of Blue Heron [...]
If you haven’t yet taken part in Elkhart Dining Days, you are missing out! It’s your chance to eat delicious food, support local restaurants, and give to a good cause–$2 of every meal goes to support Church Community Services. We’re a little late in our announcement, but there are still a few days left. Through October 6 you can get either a 3-course meal or dinner for 2 for just $25, depending on the restaurant. We are of course partial [...]
Check out this latest event by our friends at Clay Bottom Farm, along with Viand Chef Services. (We think the 4th course looks especially tasty.) Follow the links for photos of a previous farm to table meal–it looks amazing!
Baby chicks sure are cute, but baby turkeys (called “poults”) are my favorite. Unlike skittish chicks, turkeys like people and will run toward you, rather than away from you, when you approach them. They do adorable things like cock their heads and poke at your wedding ring (shiny!) and they might even try to pull your hair. Two years ago when we were raising turkeys for the first time, I fell in love with the tiniest, most pathetic of [...]
Just yesterday I was thinking it was time for another rainstorm. Then early this morning I woke up to thunder rumbling outside my bedroom window, and the sacred sound of rain splashing the roof and running in the gutters. If you had told me two weeks ago that our grass would turn green again this summer, I would have scoffed. And yet after a week and a half of regular rain showers it looks like Goshen might recover from this [...]
We have pasture-raised pork available now, custom cut to your specifications. There are a few left, but they’re going to butcher next week, so contact Elise and Adam at 574.971.5146 to reserve your half or whole hog! These fat-and-happy pigs have spent their lives in shady pastures, eating roots, tubers, leaves and grass. They’ve enjoyed locally grown, GMO-free feed, supplemented with spent brewery grains from Iechyd Da Brewery. (Check out our video of the pigs eating brewery grains–and loving it–for [...]
This is one of our favorite bacon recipes. It travels well to potlucks, picnics, and barbeques, and still tastes good as leftovers. CSA customers, you’ll be getting a pound of bacon this week, along with chicken, pork chops, ground beef, a ham hock, and sausage. Enjoy! Bacon Cornbread Makes one 10-inch round bread Adapted from Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, an excellent bread-baking book. 1 cup coarse cornmeal 2 cups buttermilk 8 ounces bacon 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose [...]
Father’s Day is around the corner and the first delivery of the Blue Heron Meat CSA will arrive just in time. If you haven’t signed up yet, we’ve got a few spots left–check out our CSA page for details. It’s the perfect gift for Dad, and the first pick-up is this Saturday. Father’s Day Beer Can Chicken Two Whole Chickens MARINADE ½ C veggie oil ½ C Water 2 T Worcestershire 2 T Soy Sauce 1T Cider Vinegar 1 T [...]