About a month ago, before the harvest explosion and all our visitors arrived, a dear family friend sent me an amazing surprise package of vintage aprons and fabrics.  She had been reading the blog, and was so tickled by my apron-making for the bakery, that she sent along some of the aprons made and collected ...
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Two years ago this week, we packed up the construction tools and opened our wee bakery in Amherst.  Ella was just three months old, and many of you may remember her as just a wisp of hair poking out from the Ergo, where she spent most of her day.  It’s been such a pleasure to ...
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For those of you who couldn’t join us, a taste of the delightful time we had at the Field Day . . .
Getting ready

Harvest loaves from the spring “Red Fife” wheat we grew here at White Oak Farm, part of your upcoming shares!!!

Ben baked one whole meal loaf (the entire wheat berry ground) and one ...
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Well folks, it’s been quite a month!  Between family visiting, our farm animal population increasing, new staff coming on at Wheatberry, the grain harvest, and Ella being her usual hilarious, sweet, challenging self, I hardly know what day it is, what I did yesterday, or what I’m doing tomorrow.  Looking back, it seems like last ...
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standing in our living room.  Apparently, if we don’t make sure our back door is firmly latched, he can walk in.  Whoops!  I guess it was Murphy’s Law that Sheep in a Subaru would have to be followed by a Horse in the House, eh?
Hope to see all of you Saturday at the Field Day!!  ...
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If you have a farm and a baby, it is possible that you will someday find yourself riding in the backseat of a Subaru, a two-year old who despises car rides strapped next to you, and two large sheep tethered (you hope) in the back.  Or maybe you won’t.  But today I did.  Ben and ...
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Hello friends – sorry things have been a little quiet here, but it’s probably safe to say that during grain harvesting season each year we’ll be out in the field and the granary, not at the computer.  As it should be, right?
But I did want to share a few things . . . I finally ...
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This field of wheat and oats stood…
And then we drove straight through it with Arnie”s John Deere 40 Combine harvester(1950’s) pouring over 5 tons of Winter wheat, Barley, Emmer and Esker Oats into the bin on top of the This “heritage” machine! So much Thanks to Arnie, Adam, Captain Bill, White Oak farm, NESFI, Judith ...
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I made Calabacitas for dinner the other night, and was stunned that I had never made it before.  It is super easy, super delicious, and perfect for this time of year.  I did a simplified version of a recipe from Jessica Prentice’s book Full Moon Feast (available soon at Wheatberry).
2 Tbsp olive oil or butter
2 ...
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I did it!  I managed to make one apron for each of our staff members, restraining myself from beginning all those other exciting sewing projects brewing in my mind . . . I want to have two aprons for everyone eventually, but I think I need a little apron respite, as much fun as it’s ...
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