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Summer boxes start May 21

Aliff Acres   -   Apr 27, 2018 - By The Aliffs

Hello everyone!  I am sorry I have neglected this blog!  We are starting our 2018 summer boxes on May 21.  Check out our website for details.  www.aliffacrescsa.blogspot.com.   EEverything is looking great on the farm.  The...

Cooking with Chervil, Try it. You will Love it©

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 27, 2018 - By Arlene

Cooking with Chervil, Try it. You will Love it© By Arlene Wright-Correll In our Home Farm Herbery kitchen Chervil is another herb that we'd really like to use more often. It is thought to be mostly used in French cooking but that is...

More Cooking with Chervil©

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 26, 2018 - By Arlene

More Cooking with Chervil© By Arlene Wright-Correll We love cooking with our dried chervil and we love sharing our recipes. Here are two of our long time favorite recipes. The first one is very simple and the second one is deliciously elegant. ...

Home Farm Herbery’s Black Trumpet Mushroom Sausage...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 25, 2018 - By Arlene

Home Farm Herbery’s Black Trumpet Mushroom Sausage Recipe© By Arlene Wright-Correll This recipe can be doubled etc. to accommodate the lbs of meat you are using just recalculate the rest of the recipe. Makes...

Edible Flowers

Highland Orchards Farm Market   -   Apr 25, 2018 - By Highland Orchards

Herb flowers are from herbs like lavender, basil, mint, and thyme that can be eaten just like the rest of the plant. Ornamental flowers usually follow the petal-only rule : most come from plants where the colorful petals are the only edible...

Bee Balm is an Important Seed to Plant©

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 24, 2018 - By Arlene

Bee Balm is an Important Seed to Plant© By Arlene Wright-Correll Bee balm , also called monarda, is a perennial flowering herb (up to 4 ft.) with a long history as a medicinal and as a plant. American colonists used it to make tea, and Native...

Native Perennials

Highland Orchards Farm Market   -   Apr 24, 2018 - By Highland Orchards

Why Native Perennials?  Let’s talk about why they are important, what they are, and how to incorporate them into our gardens! Why They Are Important Native perennials are a subject about which I am very passionate. The garden world has...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest Newsletter. A week ago I attended the Northwest Meat Processors Association annual conference, held this year at the beautiful Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I went for my day job where I have the pleasure of assisting small,...

White Chicken Chili© By Arlene Wright-Correll

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 22, 2018 - By Arlene

White Chicken Chili© By Arlene Wright-Correll At Home Farm Herbery we have tons of great recipes that over the years we have made. We have special ones for the late fall and for during the winter especially when we just want to sit out the...

Venison Pie Recipe©

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 22, 2018 - By Arlene

Venison Pie Recipe© By Arlene Wright-Correll Crust: 1 cup warm water  2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast 1 teaspoon honey 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt...