Saturday, October 27, 2012

This Weekend at the Store

We have freshly-harvested whole chickens today at the store.  And if you've never tried goat meat, we have our 100% grass-fed goat meat available, too.  We raise Kiko and Kiko cross goats for meat.  (Kiko is a New Zealand meat goat breed.)  Did you know that 70% of the red meat consumed in the world is goat meat?  It's mild, lean and delicious.  We also have our usuals — grass-fed beef, lamb and pastured pork, too.  Eggs are dwindling this time of year but hopefully some of our younger pullets will begin laying soon!

Friday, September 28, 2012

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!

Friday, September 21, 2012

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!"

Monday, September 3, 2012

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!

Friday, August 24, 2012

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

Friday, August 17, 2012

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. 

Friday, July 13, 2012

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.