This Saturday at the Marinwood Farmers Market

Our Saturday Menu: Back by popular demand, our wonderful apple-maple syrup topping for the French toast that includes organic apples from Nana Mae's caramelized in organic Jersey butter from Spring Hill and then blended with organic maple syrup. We will also have our house-made Petaluma Farmhouse Sausage for scrambles. (You can also buy some to take home.) Or try one of our Lamburgers for lunch. These are made with Happy Hens Farm 100% grass-fed lamb and served with our house-made Heirloom Yellow Tomato Chutney. (We've been harvesting the last of our tomatoes and couldn't resist this recipe.) Will also be serving our Grilled Cheese and Heirloom Tomato sandwiches and our 100% grass-fed beef Hamburgers (aka the Happy Hens Farmburger). Have a good day at the market tomorrow!

Our Saturday Menu at Marinwood Farmers' Market

Since Fall begins tomorrow, we came up with lots of delicious Autumn-inspired offerings for tomorrow's market. First of all, we have our house-made Petaluma Far

mhouse Sausage, made with our own pastured pork. Try it in one of our egg scrambles or have a sausage burger instead of hamburger tomorrow. You can buy some to take home, too. We have a wonderful apple-maple syrup topping for the French toast that includes organic apples from Nana Mae's caramelized in organic butter from Straus Creamery and then blended with organic maple syrup. (Double yum!) And lastly, we have grilled cheese and heirloom tomato sandwiches made with organic Colby Jack from Spring Hill Jersey Cheese and organic heirloom tomatoes from Happy Hens Farm. Come celebrate Fall at the market!"

Petaluma East-side Farmers Market

We'll be at the new Petaluma East-side Farmers Market selling our pastured eggs, grass-fed lamb and grass-fed beef.  This is Petaluma's first year-round farmers market and will have over 50 vendors.  The markets are every Tuesday morning from 10 am - 1:30 pm at the Community Center, 320 North McDowell.  We will also be using this market as one of our pick-up locations for our CSA.  Stop by and say hello!

This Saturday at the Marinwood Farmers Market

Here's what's on our menu for Saturday: For breakfast, French toast with Gravenstein apple butter made by my friend June (June Taylor Jams) and a dab of Cowgirl Creamery's creme fraiche on top. Or choose from one of our delicious scrambles using  ingredients such as Feta from Achadinha Cheese Company and lamb Merguez sausage made from our grass-fed lambs.  All our breakfast items are made with pastured eggs fresh from our farm. 

Too late for breakfast? Enjoy one of our Happy Hens "Farmburgers" featuring our 100% grass-fed ground beef and topped with heirloom tomatoes from The Patch and  red onions from Full Belly Farm.

Marinwood Community Farmers Market 
101 Marinwood Ave at Miller Creek Rd
San Rafael, CA 
9 am - 2 pm

Breakfast is Served

We are now serving up some really tasty breakfast every Saturday morning at the Marinwood Community Farmers Market.  This Saturday morning we'll have French toast with wild blackberry sauce and, of course, our scrambles — one of which will feature our fresh (and delicious) lamb Merguez sausage.  If you don't know about Merguez sausage, it's a popular, somewhat spicy North African sausage.  All our breakfast items are made with pastured eggs fresh from our farm.  Come have some good food and enjoy the Marinwood Farmers Market. 

Quack Quack!

hatching ducklings and a curious hen

I have small flock of ducks of various breeds, including Buff, Welsh Harlequin, Ancona, Rouen, Khaki Campbell, Black Cayuga, Blue Swedish and Black Swedish.  I raise them for their eggs, which I sell, and for their sheer fun of watching ducks go about their business. 

This hen managed to build her nest in the walkway to the barn, so we were all forced to sidestep her as we went about our day.  Here she is hatching seven adorable ducklings with one curious onlooker monitoring the progress.

Farm Camp Update

Thumbelina aka the Pixie Goat

The first week of farm camp was last week and we all had a blast!  The "campers" were full of energy and enthusiasm.  They never tired of the farm work and getting to know all the animals and how to care for them.  They also  learned how to "skirt" a fleece, wash the wool, card and felt some very stylish pouches to take with them.  I dyed the wool using natural plant dyes, including Black Walnut leaves, nettles, mint  and wild chamomile.  We made drums from rawhide and willow from the ranch.  Thanks to my friend, Gary, owner of A Healthy Palate, the kids made Paleo pancakes (a big hit).  And finally, after a week of anticipation, one of the nesting ducks hatched her ducklings on Friday.  All seven ducklings are doing well.  (Pictures to follow).  We still have a few openings left for July camp (July 16th-20th).   Happy Hens Farm Summer Camp Flyer
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