Hello beautiful peeps,

Wytheville Farmer’s Market WILL BE OPEN on Saturday. There will be stringent safety measures in place and there will likely be a learning curve to make it work smoothly. Instructions will be posted at the uncovered entrance. Check out the Wytheville Farmer’s Market Facebook page.  More information will be posted there on Thursday or Friday this week.

I will be in the parking lot across the street for bulk meat and herd share pickups. Look for my burgundy Subaru Outback. Remember to bring your jars. If you did not receive an email saying I needed these, then I already have your jars. You will also be able to purchase items from inside but that is a different process put in place by the market manager.

Let’s keep each other’s safety in mind and maintain those safe distances if someone else is there with me picking up product. I’ll be using hand sanitizer between each of our interactions. If you have concerns about picking up, please let me know so we can make other arrangements. Above all, I want you to be comfortable and feel safe.

One other note, if you are looking for eggs because your stores are sold out, contact your favorite farmer and place an advance order or get there early. Meat was in short supply at the stores as well. There are several meat vendors at the market. We have ground lamb, beef and chev (goat). See below for other available meat products.

New herd share opportunities are coming up soon. Contact me via email (melanie@peacefulheartfarm.com) or phone (276-694-4369). More shares will be available soon.

Please go HERE to learn all about Herd Shares and get on our waiting list.

If you shop the Independence Farmer’s Market, you can still place your orders for lamb, beef and goat via the online market. We now have lamb available in 1″ kabob chunks. It’s great for making Indian curry dishes. Indian Style Curry is one of the new recipes. 

Here is a link to the online store. Register for an account, place your order online and pick it up on Wednesday afternoon at Grayson Landscaping (next to the old court house). Email me if you don’t see what you are interested in purchasing. 

News This Week 

• Products Available This Week
• Let’s Get Together
• This week’s FarmCast: “COVID19 – In the Year of Our Lord 2020” is comprised of my ramblings on life during this trying time in our lives. 
• FREE Cheese tasting downloads
• Most Recent Recipes – Lemon Cheese was added.

Products Available to Herd Share Owners

Products Available to the General Public

Let’s Get Together

As always, we’d love to meet you in person.  You can find us at the Wytheville Farmers Market the 2nd and 4th Saturdays in April as long as the market is able to be open. Hours are 10 am to 12 pm.  

As always, you may visit us at our dairy farm in Claudville, Virginia Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon and Saturday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm. Find out how we raise our animals and why you will love the taste of tradition that is inherent in all of our products. Herd share holders will be able to see up close how their cows are cared for and where the cheese is made and stored. 

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

This week’s podcast, COVID19 – In the Year of Our Lord 2020, is me rambling on and on about our life here and providing some uplifting support for you and your families. Please let me know if there is anything you need.

Free Downloads

I want to follow up on my previous FarmCast, The Taste of Cheese where I talked about developing your expertise with using descriptive words. The FREE downloads of Classifying Cheese by Type and Category and Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary are still available at our website. Please stop by and get your FREE resources. 

You can LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. Or, if you have an Alexa device, just say: “Alexa, play podcast Peaceful Heart FarmCast.”

And don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Peaceful Heart Farm podcast on Apple Podcasts, Android, TuneIn, Stitcher or Spotify

Recent Recipes

Click the links and check them out. All of my recipes are printable.

Lemon Cheese: Lemon cheese is a very simple fresh cheese that you can easily make in your kitchen. It is a moist spreadable cheese with a hint of lemon taste.

If you make it in the evening, this rich and delicious cheese will be ready to spread on hot biscuits, toast, muffins, bagels or croissants for breakfast in the morning!

Greek Meatballs with Yogurt-Mint Sauce: Slow-simmered in a rich tomato sauce and served over rice with a tangy yogurt sauce and crumbled feta. Yum, yum. The recipe includes ingredients and instructions for the meatballs, the tomato sauce, and the yogurt-mint sauce.
Easy Barbecued Beef: Meatballs Seasoned with a Moroccan-style blend of fresh mint, cinnamon, coriander and cumin and simmered in tomato sauce, these tender lamb meatballs make a flavorful change from their Italian-style cousins.

These delicious meatballs were a hit at the farmer’s market. Lamb is a delicious alternative to beef.

Easy Barbecued Beef: This easy barbecued beef recipe takes advantage of your traditional slow-cooker. It’s great for any cookout or potluck dinner. Chuck roast makes delicious shredded beef sandwiches. The recipe calls for ketchup however, you may substitute tomato paste for a slightly less sweet dish. In any case, this barbecued beef is sure to please your family.

Hello beautiful people,

It has been three weeks since we’ve had a market day at Wytheville. Looking forward to seeing you all there. We can talk about milk!! There was good news and bad news this week that has led to us possibly having milk available a little earlier than planned. Violet miscarried. We lost the calf but she is in milk. However, she is not producing very much milk at this time. We’ll see how that goes. Otherwise, we are looking at mid-April when we have a couple more cows in milk.

The creamery now has doors with locks and windows. Check us out on our Facebook page to catch the great photos of his progress. If you haven’t already, you can follow us HERE. He created these really lovely window sills. It is an original creation and looks really great.  

We have an unexpected lamb. He is fine and healthy. This mishap came from an experience we had about 6 months ago. While moving groups of animals from one place to another and somehow one of the young rams ended up with the ewes. It was two weeks before we noticed this mistake and I am surprised it only resulted in one unplanned pregnancy.

Another steer went to the processor and we have one quarter left. Let me know ASAP if you want to claim it. 

I have one herd share available. Contact me via email (melanie@peacefulheartfarm.com) or phone (276-694-4369). More shares will be available soon.

Please go HERE to learn all about Herd Shares and get on our waiting list.

As a reminder, those of you that shop the Independence Farmer’s Market can still place your orders for lamb, beef and goat via the online market. We now have lamb available in 1″ kabob chunks. It’s great for making Indian curry dishes. Indian Style Curry is one of the new recipes. 

Here is a link to the online store. Register for an account, place your order online and pick it up on Wednesday afternoon at Grayson Landscaping (next to the old court house). Email me if you don’t see what you are interested in purchasing. 

News This Week 

• Products Available This Week
• Let’s Get Together
• This week’s FarmCast: “You Can Make Your Own Cheese – Part 2” follows onto the introduction to the equipment. This podcast covers the space you will need and all about sanitation. It is the most important topic for making good cheese. 
• FREE Cheese tasting downloads
• Most Recent Recipes – Lemon Cheese was added.

Products Available to Herd Share Owners

Products Available to the General Public

Let’s Get Together

As always, we’d love to meet you in person.  You can find us at the Wytheville Farmers Market the and 4th Saturdays in February, March, and April. Hours are 10 am to 2 pm.  

As always, you may visit us at our dairy farm in Claudville, Virginia Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon and Saturday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm. Find out how we raise our animals and why you will love the taste of tradition that is inherent in all of our products. Herd share holders will be able to see up close how their cows are cared for and where the cheese is made and stored. 

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

This week’s podcast, You Can Make Your Own Cheese – Part 2 Follows up on Part 1 where I talked mostly about equipment. Part 2 is about space requirements and cleanliness. No that I have completed Part 2, I will make the whole thing available as a downloadable pdf file. Look for that in the next newsletter.

If you missed the last podcast, listen to “You Can Make Your Own Cheese – Part 1” here.

Free Downloads

I want to follow up on my previous FarmCast, The Taste of Cheese where I talked about developing your expertise with using descriptive words. The FREE downloads of Classifying Cheese by Type and Category and Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary are still available at our website. Please stop by and get your FREE resources. 

You can LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. Or, if you have an Alexa device, just say: “Alexa, play podcast Peaceful Heart FarmCast.”

And don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Peaceful Heart Farm podcast on Apple Podcasts, Android, TuneIn, Stitcher or Spotify

Recent Recipes

Click the links and check them out. All of my recipes are printable.

Lemon Cheese: Lemon cheese is a very simple fresh cheese that you can easily make in your kitchen. It is a moist spreadable cheese with a hint of lemon taste.

If you make it in the evening, this rich and delicious cheese will be ready to spread on hot biscuits, toast, muffins, bagels or croissants for breakfast in the morning!

Greek Meatballs with Yogurt-Mint Sauce: Slow-simmered in a rich tomato sauce and served over rice with a tangy yogurt sauce and crumbled feta. Yum, yum. The recipe includes ingredients and instructions for the meatballs, the tomato sauce, and the yogurt-mint sauce.

Easy Barbecued Beef: Meatballs Seasoned with a Moroccan-style blend of fresh mint, cinnamon, coriander and cumin and simmered in tomato sauce, these tender lamb meatballs make a flavorful change from their Italian-style cousins.

These delicious meatballs were a hit at the farmer’s market. Lamb is a delicious alternative to beef.

Easy Barbecued Beef: This easy barbecued beef recipe takes advantage of your traditional slow-cooker. It’s great for any cookout or potluck dinner. Chuck roast makes delicious shredded beef sandwiches. The recipe calls for ketchup however, you may substitute tomato paste for a slightly less sweet dish. In any case, this barbecued beef is sure to please your family.

Hello beautiful people,

You would think that spring has arrived early. However, it looks like we may be in for some snow on Saturday. Doesn’t look like it will be too bad. I’m pretty sure I will make it to the market in good order. It will be a great day to come out and shop with us at the Wytheville Farmer’s Market. Hope to see all of you there.

The creamery roof is on. Scott finished the plywood on the east dormer wall today. He will be putting plastic up over the west wall. That attic section in the roof will connect with the roof over the milking parlor. Check us out on our Facebook page to catch the great photos of his progress. If you haven’t already, you can follow us HERE.  

I’ll have the Moroccan seasoned lamb meatballs for tasting again this week at the market. We have one quarter left of the steer we are taking to market. Let me know ASAP if you want it. 

I have one herd share available. Contact me via email (melanie@peacefulheartfarm.com) or phone (276-694-4369). More shares will be available in the spring.

Please go HERE to learn all about Herd Shares and get on our waiting list.

As a reminder, those of you that shop the Independence Farmer’s Market can still place your orders for lamb, beef and goat via the online market. We now have lamb available in 1″ kabob chunks. It’s great for making Indian curry dishes. Indian Style Curry is one of the new recipes. 

Here is a link to the online store. Register for an account, place your order online and pick it up on Wednesday afternoon at Grayson Landscaping (next to the old court house). Email me if you don’t see what you are interested in purchasing. 

News This Week 

• Products Available This Week
• Let’s Get Together
• This week’s FarmCast: “You Can Make Your Own Cheese – Part 1” brings you an introduction to the equipment you will need to get started. The next podcast will cover the space you will need and all about sanitation. It is the most important topic for making good cheese. 
• FREE Cheese tasting downloads
• Most Recent Recipes – Greek Meatballs with Yogurt-Mint Sauce was added.

Products Available to Herd Share Owners

Products Available to the General Public

Let’s Get Together

As always, we’d love to meet you in person.  You can find us at the Wytheville Farmers Market the and 4th Saturdays in February, March, and April. Hours are 10 am to 2 pm.  

As always, you may visit us at our dairy farm in Claudville, Virginia Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon and Saturday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm. Find out how we raise our animals and why you will love the taste of tradition that is inherent in all of our products. Herd share holders will be able to see up close how their cows are cared for and where the cheese is made and stored. 

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

This week’s podcast, You Can Make Your Own Cheese – Part 1 will give you a basic introduction to the kinds of equipment you will need to get started making your own cheese. You’ll also learn why you need each. From pots and vats, to molds, and presses. There are quite a few items and details. When I have completed Part 2, I will make the whole thing available as a downloadable pdf file.

Listen to “You Can Make Your Own Cheese – Part 1” here.

Free Downloads

I want to follow up on my previous FarmCast, The Taste of Cheese where I talked about developing your expertise with using descriptive words. The FREE downloads of Classifying Cheese by Type and Category and Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary are still available at our website. Please stop by and get your FREE resources. 

You can LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. Or, if you have an Alexa device, just say: “Alexa, play podcast Peaceful Heart FarmCast.”

And don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Peaceful Heart Farm podcast on Apple Podcasts, Android, TuneIn, Stitcher or Spotify

Recent Recipes

Click the links and check them out. All of my recipes are printable.

Greek Meatballs with Yogurt-Mint Sauce: Slow-simmered in a rich tomato sauce and served over rice with a tangy yogurt sauce and crumbled feta. Yum, yum. The recipe includes ingredients and instructions for the meatballs, the tomato sauce, and the yogurt-mint sauce.

Easy Barbecued Beef: Meatballs Seasoned with a Moroccan-style blend of fresh mint, cinnamon, coriander and cumin and simmered in tomato sauce, these tender lamb meatballs make a flavorful change from their Italian-style cousins.

These delicious meatballs were a hit at the farmer’s market. Lamb is a delicious alternative to beef.

Easy Barbecued Beef: This easy barbecued beef recipe takes advantage of your traditional slow-cooker. It’s great for any cookout or potluck dinner. Chuck roast makes delicious shredded beef sandwiches. The recipe calls for ketchup however, you may substitute tomato paste for a slightly less sweet dish. In any case, this barbecued beef is sure to please your family.

Queso Fresco: Want to make queso fresco at home? Here is an easy recipe to make this homemade cheese that is a popular topping for tacos, nachos, enchiladas and tostadas. Many Latin foods use this ingredient and it is so easy.

Hello beautiful people,

Sorry for the late newsletter. I let time get away from me. Hope all is going well for all of you. When you have do you add a bunch of stuff to your “to do” list? This is the time to complete all that stuff that has been put on hold.

Scott has half of the creamery roof “dried in” already. Follow us on our Facebook page so you don’t miss the great photos of his progress. You can follow us HERE.  

Meet me at the farmer’s market on Saturday. I’ll have Moroccan seasoned lamb meatballs for tasting. We are taking another steer to the processor in the next week or so. Get your orders in now. 

If you have not heard from me regarding available herd shares, I do not have you on my waiting list. I have one and a half shares available. Contact me via email (melanie@peacefulheartfarm.com) or phone (276-694-4369). I will have more shares available in the spring.

Please go HERE to learn all about Herd Shares and get on our waiting list.

As a reminder, those of you that shop the Independence Farmer’s Market can still place your orders for lamb, beef and goat via the online market. We now have lamb available in 1″ kabob chunks. It’s great for making Indian curry dishes. Indian Style Curry is one of the new recipes. 

Here is a link to the online store. Register for an account, place your order online and pick it up on Wednesday afternoon at Grayson Landscaping (next to the old court house). Email me if you don’t see what you are interested in purchasing. 

News This Week 

• Products Available This Week
• Let’s Get Together
• This week’s FarmCast: “Nose to Tail Beef” will answer many questions you may have regarding how to use a great quantity of beef and unfamiliar cuts. 
• FREE Cheese tasting downloads
• Most Recent Recipes – Moroccan Seasoned Meatballs was added (by request from several of YOU).

Products Available to Herd Share Owners

Products Available to the General Public

Let’s Get Together

As always, we’d love to meet you in person.  You can find us at the Wytheville Farmers Market the and 4th Saturdays in January, Februrary, March, and April. Hours are 10 am to 2 pm.  

As always, you may visit us at our dairy farm in Claudville, Virginia Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon and Saturday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm. Find out how we raise our animals and why you will love the taste of tradition that is inherent in all of our products. Herd share holders will be able to see up close how their cows are cared for and where the cheese is made and stored. 

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

This week’s podcast, Nose to Tail Beef, will give you great information on just how a cow is put together. You’ll also learn where various cuts of meat originate on the cow and some basic (very basic) instructions on how to prepared the various cuts. I have my “Whole Beef Cookbook” in the works to fill in the blanks.  

Listen to “Nose to Tail Beef” here.

Free Downloads

I want to follow up on my previous FarmCast, The Taste of Cheese where I talked about developing your expertise with using descriptive words. The FREE downloads of Classifying Cheese by Type and Category and Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary are still available at our website. Please stop by and get your FREE resources. 

You can LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. Or, if you have an Alexa device, just say: “Alexa, play podcast Peaceful Heart FarmCast.”

And don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Peaceful Heart Farm podcast on Apple Podcasts, Android, TuneIn, Stitcher or Spotify

Recent Recipes

Click the links and check them out. All of my recipes are printable.

Easy Barbecued Beef: Meatballs Seasoned with a Moroccan-style blend of fresh mint, cinnamon, coriander and cumin and simmered in tomato sauce, these tender lamb meatballs make a flavorful change from their Italian-style cousins.

These delicious meatballs were a hit at the farmer’s market. Lamb is a delicious alternative to beef.

Easy Barbecued Beef: This easy barbecued beef recipe takes advantage of your traditional slow-cooker. It’s great for any cookout or potluck dinner. Chuck roast makes delicious shredded beef sandwiches. The recipe calls for ketchup however, you may substitute tomato paste for a slightly less sweet dish. In any case, this barbecued beef is sure to please your family.

Queso Fresco: Want to make queso fresco at home? Here is an easy recipe to make this homemade cheese that is a popular topping for tacos, nachos, enchiladas and tostadas. Many Latin foods use this ingredient and it is so easy.

Crème Fraîche: Crème fraîche is similar to sour cream. While sour cream and crème fraîche are both used to add richness and tangy flavor, they are not the same thing. And is it worth taking the extra time to make your own crème fraîche? I’m going to say absolutely, yes, depending on the use.

Hello beautiful people,

Happy New Year. Hope all is going well for all of you. Time has slowed tremendously here on the farm. It’s a welcome break from the high speed activity that goes on the rest of the year.

Scott is diligently working on the creamery. If you are not following us on our Facebook page, you are missing the great photos of his progress on this project. You can follow us HERE. The rafters are going up. The roof is being raised. 

Cow breeding is done and birthing will begin in less than 3 months. It’s the cycle of life. Not much else is happening here on the farm. The animals are all eating lots and lots of hay as the grass is just about gone.  

If you have not heard from me regarding available herd shares, I do not have you on my waiting list. I have one and a half shares available. Contact me via email (melanie@peacefulheartfarm.com) or phone (276-694-4369). I will have more shares available in the spring.

Please go HERE to learn all about Herd Shares and get on our waiting list.

This week I’m going to have samples of our ground lamb in the form of meatballs. Stop by our booth and have a taste. We have lamb chops and beef available as well. All purchases come with a free recipe and I have two new lamb recipes.

Herd share owners I hope you are enjoying the cheese. And before you know it, we will once again have fresh milk and fresh milk products. 

As a reminder, those of you that shop the Independence Farmer’s Market can still place your orders for lamb, beef and goat via the online market. We now have lamb available in 1″ kabob chunks. It’s great for making Indian curry dishes. Indian Style Curry is one of the new recipes. 

Here is a link to the online store. Register for an account, place your order online and pick it up on Wednesday afternoon at Grayson Landscaping (next to the old court house). Email me if you don’t see what you are interested in purchasing. 

News This Week 

• Products Available This Week
• Let’s Get Together
• This week’s FarmCast: “7 Tips for Using a Traditional Slow Cooker” is a great reminder that new gadgets are good but sometimes the old ones will do the trick nicely. Included is a great recipe for using chuck roast in the slow cooker to make easy barbecued beef. 
• FREE Cheese tasting downloads
• Most Recent Recipes – Easy Barbecued Beef was added.

Products Available to Herd Share Owners

Products Available to the General Public

Let’s Get Together

As always, we’d love to meet you in person.  You can find us at the Wytheville Farmers Market the and 4th Saturdays in January, Februrary, March, and April. Hours are 10 am to 2 pm.  

As always, you may visit us at our dairy farm in Claudville, Virginia Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon and Saturday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm. Find out how we raise our animals and why you will love the taste of tradition that is inherent in all of our products. Herd share holders will be able to see up close how their cows are cared for and where the cheese is made and stored. 

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

This week’s podcast, 7 Tips for Using a Traditional Slow Cooker, will inspire you to take out that slow cooker and put it to great use. A multi-function pressure cooker can also be used if you moved on to that device and eliminated the old crock pot.  

Listen to “7 Tips for Using a Traditional Slow Cooker” here.

Free Downloads

I want to follow up on a previous FarmCast, The Taste of Cheese where I talked about developing your expertise with using descriptive words. The FREE downloads of Classifying Cheese by Type and Category and Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary are still available at our website. Please stop by and get your FREE resources. 

You can LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. Or, if you have an Alexa device, just say: “Alexa, play podcast Peaceful Heart FarmCast.”

And don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Peaceful Heart Farm podcast on Apple Podcasts, Android, TuneIn, Stitcher or Spotify

Recent Recipes

Click the links and check them out. All of my recipes are printable.

Easy Barbecued Beef: This easy barbecued beef recipe takes advantage of your traditional slow-cooker. It’s great for any cookout or potluck dinner. Chuck roast makes delicious shredded beef sandwiches. The recipe calls for ketchup however, you may substitute tomato paste for a slightly less sweet dish. In any case, this barbecued beef is sure to please your family.

Queso Fresco: Want to make queso fresco at home? Here is an easy recipe to make this homemade cheese that is a popular topping for tacos, nachos, enchiladas and tostadas. Many Latin foods use this ingredient and it is so easy.

Crème Fraîche: Crème fraîche is similar to sour cream. While sour cream and crème fraîche are both used to add richness and tangy flavor, they are not the same thing. And is it worth taking the extra time to make your own crème fraîche? I’m going to say absolutely, yes, depending on the use.

Vanilla Cream Cheesecake Fat Bombs: A word of caution to anyone not living the keto lifestyle. If you are primarily burning carbohydrates and just add a lot fat such as in these luscious fat bombs, you will not induce ketosis and you will likely put on weight. There is a science to it. Ketosis first, then fat bombs for fun.

These delicious vanilla cheesecake fat bombs are high on taste and will give you a long-lasting boost of energy. They are deliciously creamy and taste just like cheesecake.

Hello beautiful people,

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. And here’s wishing you a very Happy New Year as well. I’ve followed through on making broth and canning it. The extra meat is going into a wonderful stew for the women staying at the homeless shelter tonight. It included lots of broth and lots of our canned vegetables. It is seasoned just right (IMO ). There will be fresh baked bread and chocolate cupcakes.

Scott still has a lot of wood to gather for winter wood stove heating, but at the moment he is out there in the creamery under construction building the roof. The first step was to put down the attic floor. That gives him a platform to build the rafters. He is such a great builder. I wish you could see up close the wonderful job he is doing. 

We named the new heifer Luna and she is doing great. The bull and a couple of steers are back out in the front pasture, separated from the girls. Cow breeding is done. The choice was because we did not want to breed Cloud yet. After giving birth to Luna, Cloud will come back into heat again in the next week or so and thus the decision to remove the bull. She will be bred via AI along with the rest of the girls in the beginning of summer 2020. We have received our tank for storing semen. Scott has found a resource for charging it up and we will be receiving our choice of bull semen in the very near future.  

I have a couple of herd shares coming up so if you are on the waiting list, look for an email from me this week. If you are not already signed up, but please send me an email and get on our waiting list. I will have more shares available in the spring.

Please go HERE to learn all about Herd Shares and get on our waiting list.

This week is the last pickup for yogurt. We have lots of cheese and look forward to serving your cheese needs throughout the next 4 months until we once again have fresh milk and fresh milk products. 

As a reminder, those of you that shop the Independence Farmer’s Market can still place your orders for lamb, beef and goat via the online market. We now have lamb available in 1″ kabob chunks. It’s great for making Indian curry dishes. I’ll have a recipe printed for that by the end of next week.
Here is a link to the online store. Register for an account, place your order online and pick it up on Wednesday afternoon at Grayson Landscaping (next to the old court house). Email me if you don’t see what you are interested in purchasing. 

News This Week 

• Products Available This Week
• Let’s Get Together
• This week’s FarmCast: “Popular Cheeses” Lots of good information on many cheeses. Types covered are hard, semi-hard, semi-soft and soft (fresh and ripened).
• FREE Cheese tasting downloads
• Most Recent Recipes – Queso Fresco was added.

Products Available to Herd Share Owners

Products Available to the General Public

Let’s Get Together

As always, we’d love to meet you in person.  This Saturday is the last December market. Hours are 10 am to 2 pm for this great market day. We will continue twice monthly through the month of April.  The Winter Market hours are 10 am to noon on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month. 

As always, you may visit us at our dairy farm in Claudville, Virginia Tuesdays from 10 am to 12 noon and Saturday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm. Find out how we raise our animals and why you will love the taste of tradition that is inherent in all of our products. Herd share holders will be able to see up close how their cows are cared for and where the cheese is made and stored. 

Peaceful Heart FarmCast

This week’s podcast, Popular Cheeses, provides some great information about all kinds of cheeses. Cheese types include: Hard, semi-hard, semi-soft, soft (fresh and ripened). There is too much to do more than a brief overview. If you want more, see my podcasts The Taste of Cheese and The Basics of Cheesemaking. 

Listen to “Popular Cheeses” here.

Free Downloads

I want to follow up on a previous FarmCast, The Taste of Cheese where I talked about developing your expertise with using descriptive words. The FREE downloads of Classifying Cheese by Type and Category and Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary are still available at our website. Please stop by and get your FREE resources. 

You can LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. Or, if you have an Alexa device, just say: “Alexa, play podcast Peaceful Heart FarmCast.”

And don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to the Peaceful Heart Farm podcast on Apple Podcasts, Android, TuneIn, Stitcher or Spotify

Recent Recipes

Click the links and check them out. All of my recipes are printable.

Queso Fresco: Want to make queso fresco at home? Here is an easy recipe to make this homemade cheese that is a popular topping for tacos, nachos, enchiladas and tostadas. Many Latin foods use this ingredient and it is so easy.

Crème Fraîche: Crème fraîche is similar to sour cream. While sour cream and crème fraîche are both used to add richness and tangy flavor, they are not the same thing. And is it worth taking the extra time to make your own crème fraîche? I’m going to say absolutely, yes, depending on the use.

Vanilla Cream Cheesecake Fat Bombs: A word of caution to anyone not living the keto lifestyle. If you are primarily burning carbohydrates and just add a lot fat such as in these luscious fat bombs, you will not induce ketosis and you will likely put on weight. There is a science to it. Ketosis first, then fat bombs for fun.

These delicious vanilla cheesecake fat bombs are high on taste and will give you a long-lasting boost of energy. They are deliciously creamy and taste just like cheesecake.

Lamb Chops with Balsamic Reduction Sauce: This recipe for lamb chops is a favorite on our homestead. The title sound fancy but it is an easy and quick recipe for two people (we eat two chops each). Rosemary, basil and thyme give it great flavor.