Holiday Gift Trade at our Underground Holiday Party
We’re hosting our first Gift Trade event during our Underground Holiday Party and we couldn’t be more excited! We’ve had a lot of questions regarding how the holiday gift trade will work and since it’s our first go at it, we thought we’d include some guidelines. Read more…
Results for the Eat Real Raffle!
Thanks so much to everyone who came to our Eat Real Fest booth and participated in our drawing! We had an amazing time meeting and talking to all of your and handed out hundreds of raffle tickets for our giveaway are are so excited about the drawing.
Visit us at Eat Real Fest in Oakland and win!
Everyone loves a good contest right? We’ve been trying to think of a great way to host a giveaway at Eat Real Festival in Oakland and with the help of some Facebook friends, I think we came up with something really fun.
There are three ways to enter:
1) Visit our booth at Eat Real Fest this weekend and spend money! For every $10 you spend you’ll receive a raffle ticket for a prize.
A Backyard Wine-Making Kit is Born
Last year around this time I wrote a post about my education in wine-making. I originally thought it would be great to carry a wine-making kit in the FARMcurious store; after all, I did already carry a beer-making kit. I saw that many of the brew stores had them for a few hundred dollars, which honestly seemed like a lot so I started asking questions.
As it turns out making wine at home from grapes is a huge endeavor. You generally have to make it in large batches because you order the wine grapes by the pallet load when they’re in season. Read more…
Making Fruit Wine
I’ve recently been toying with making fruit wine using the kits that I carry in the store. The Backyard Fruit Wine Making Kit includes everything you need to make a delicious batch of just about any type of wine. It’s not limited to fruit either – recipes range from currant wine to watermelon wine and everything in between (including corn and onion!!) All you have to add is sugar and produce (fresh or even dried).
I found myself with tons of strawberries at the peak of their freshness so I decided to try out the strawberry wine recipe. Read more…
Going Quackers – Herding Runner Ducks
Me...trouble??
I’ve lamented plenty of times about the difficulty of finding a willing and able person to farm-sit while our modern lifestyle takes us to other exciting places. You might have even read my last post about what has happened in the past when we left the farm for a bit. Well, it’s happened again. A few weekends ago, Jared and I went up north for some river rafting relaxation and after some desperate pleas for help a good friend of ours came to the rescue.
Jeremy Ogusky, our favorite new artist
We’re proud to introduce an exciting new partnership with Jeremy Ogusky, potter extraordinaire! Jeremy is making the most beautiful fermenting crock I have ever seen and FARMcurious is lucky enough to be able to carry it for him. If you think the crock is gorgeous in the photos, just wait until you see it in real life. Jeremy is also one of the few potters actually recommended by Sandor Katz, the fermenting master himself.
Jeremy is a studio potter in Boston, Massachusetts, producing unique & functional ceramics. His studio practice is influenced by his work with potters in Southern Africa & South America and background in public health & social activism. Jeremy understands that the decision to buy handmade objects is more than just an economic decision, but a political one. By creating durable kitchenware he is creating compelling objects for use in the home and building a more just economy and appreciation for craft. Visit his website & see more of his work on his website or on Facebook.
Tricked into making something that is not Kirschwasser
My secret organic produce-wielding friend showed up at my house a couple of weeks ago with a lovely little surprise – a little bag of morello cherries. Morellos are the tiny sour cherries that are traditionally used to make kirschwasser, the german cherry liqueur (literally translated it means “cherry water”).
I have to admit that, though I love the idea of cocktails with their sexy names, their vibrant colors and their seasonal variations, not to mention the adorable glasses they’re served in, it’s not actually what I prefer to drink. I want to sip cosmopolitans but I’m much more in my comfort zone with wine. Read more…
Waste not, want not?
We’ve all heard the phrase but I can’t really tell you that I’ve ever sat down to truly ponder what it meant. I haven’t had to truly want something since I was a kid; in fact, I’ve lived quite comfortably within my means for years with a well-paying job, few obligations and no debt. It’s not necessarily that all that has changed now, but some significant changes have gotten me thinking about what it means to really tighten our proverbial belt. Read more…
When the farmer’s away, the marsupials will play…?
Farm help is hard to find these days
One of the biggest dilemmas for an urban farmer is how to properly care for your garden and animals when the demands of an urban lifestyle inevitably present themselves. I’ve heard more than a few farmers, urban and rural alike, lament that they couldn’t take a proper vacation because no one else could possibly figure out how to coax their persnickety goat into being milked, water their plants properly, perfectly lock up their various strangely rigged animal enclosures and the list goes on.
