With the recent passing of the new raw milk bill, dairy classes are popping up all over the state. Many of them are hosted by Rural Vermont, and some by NOFA. Helena Wu, a locally-based midwife and herbalist, is coordinating a series of "DIY" classes to be held at Anjali Farms this summer. I am teaching a class on the health benefits of raw milk, and yogurt-making using such. We'll get to touch on the health-giving effects of fermentation, too. I have been experimenting with different methods of making yogurt, and can share my experiences with you.
Cool fact: Oliver has long been a sufferer of severe allergies, every year since he was a boy. In fact, his mother used to take him for weekly shots! Since this winter, he regularly has been eating generous amounts of raw, unfiltered honey and raw milk. So far this summer, he has not experienced any allergies. He even cuddled a cat without effect! We believe it is the natural immune-strengthening milk and honey that have made this possible.
Saturday, July 25 from 10-12
$15 per person
Participants will learn about raw milk, and get to taste it, too. Learn how to make yogurt, a naturally-fermented food. Leave with 1 quart of started yogurt, brochures on raw milk.
Please bring a cooler or wool blanket for incubating your yogurt when you leave.
Anyone interested, please contact me at 875-1218.
YOGURT = YUM.
Here you can read about our life and the creation of the sweetest little community farm in Vermont. Sheep, pigs, chickens, bees, horses, plants, and humans, too!
Little lamb
Tamworth pigs
Links for foodies and farm lovers
We are...
- Lucy & Oliver
- Andover, VT
- We are young farmers who raise meat chickens, sheep, and pigs on rented land on a beautiful hill in south-central Vermont. We've been farming for about 6 years, together and apart. Lucy still holds a full-time job at Jersey Girls Dairy in Chester. We are working to create a farm that will sustain us someday. Farming sustains our love of eating, also! We spend many an hour at the kitchen counters, table, and outside in the garden. We hope to someday own a little piece of land to cultivate and grow into a self-sufficient farm where our friends always feel welcome!
Lush pasture
Of note...
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and the destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it, we can have no life.
-- Wendell Berry
-- Wendell Berry
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