Home Farm Herbery

We are busy here at Home Farm Herbery at many things such as starting many organic and heirloom seeds in the greenhouse, getting new raised planters built, creating new herb blends and putting new organic and heirloom seeds up on Local Harvest as they become ready and proven for 2013 plantings.

We start off our chilly mornings with some of our Home Farm Herbery teas and we find one of our favorites is our Herbal Chocolate Chai and it can be found at this link

http://www.localharvest.org/herbal-chocolate-chai-C24258

It been cold here with a lot of wind that brings us a low chill factor so the other day I made some good pumpkin soup and here is the recipe.

Zesty Pumpkin Soup

Makes 6 good size cups

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter

1 cup chopped onion

1 garlic clove, crushed

3 cups chicken broth

1-3/4 cups (16 oz) can) Libby's solid-pack pumpkin

1 cup half & half

Optional: sour cream & chives

Direction

In large saucepan, melt butter, sauté onion and garlic until soft.

Add Home Farm Herbery’s Zesty Pumpkin Soup Blend

http://www.localharvest.org/pumpkin-soup-blend-C23784

and cook 1 minute.

Add broth gently, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes.

Stir in pumpkin and half & half; cook 5 minutes.

Pour into blender container. Blend until creamy.

Serve warm, or reheat to desired temperature.

Garnish with dollop of sour cream and chopped chives, if desired.

That soup coupled with some of Home Farm Herberys hearth baked crusty carraway rye bread was just the thing for a healthy delicious supper. Our carraway seeds are so good and can be found at http://www.localharvest.org/caraway-seeds-C24113

Our deal of the week is our White Wonder Cucumber seeds. This rare heirloom seed is in limited supply and we only have 5 packets so get your quickly at http://www.localharvest.org/cucumber-white-wonder-seeds-heirloom-C25028