Phew, finally able to figure out how to create the first blog post.
The goal of creating our blog is to share our experiences on the farm. My husband, Luke, and I bought our farm in the fall of 2001. This date is up for debate and is the cause for a good eye roll session from me when Luke corrects me. Our farm is called Homestead Farms because we bought a bare patch of conventionally farmed land. We didn't have an overall plan, but like many other hopeless romantics, we wanted to farm. I knew only organic vegetbles and cows nd the main thing I knew about cows was that I NEVER wanted to milk cows on our farm. My thought of farming on our land involved a rototiller and a hoe. We would market directly to consumers and we would be organic farmers. Luke's idea of our farm was to one day build a facility to house and milk dairy cows. I always told him that his goal was great but I was not going to milk cows. For the record I HATE milking cows.
Bare land was the only thing we could afford with our salaries. Our farm had no house so we lived in a rented house 20 miles from the farm. Both Luke and I were working 3 jobs each and at the end of the month, my budget gave us $20 as extra spending money. We look back on that and wonder how the heck we made it. I think it made us hungry for success. To say we worked hard is an understatement. Our first season consisted of a 10 member CSA, selling lettuce to a restaurant and selling at the Easton Farmers' Market.
It was evident from that first season that Luke was the farmer and I am the marketer in our operation. I love talking to our customers and learning how they fit buying local into their lives. The recipes are also great to hear. I tend to get into cooking ruts and the customer recipes help add diversity to my repetoire.
