Midwest Region Cookbook Contributors
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FEATURED FARM
Stoner Family Farms
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Where are you Located?
"Valparaiso, Indiana"
What do you grow and/or raise?
"Our main focus is the herd of 200+ lambs. Making our frozen lamb meat our main item at our local farmers market. But we also have honey & beeswax products, seasonal vegetables, baked goods & handmade goats milk soaps."
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Lamb Shepherds Pie
Julie Stoner at Stoner Family Farms: My family and I reside in NW Indiana. I created this recipe years ago when we started raising lambs. My family loves this comfort meal on a cold fall or wintry day. I also make it every St. Patrick’s Day, topped with colcannon (cooked cabbage mixed in with mashed potatoes).Whether its homegrown, homemade, or handmade, we pride ourselves in using resources from our farm and this dish represents who we are and what we do!
Servings: 6-8
Ingredients
Filling:
2 pounds ground lamb
2 cups carrots, peeled and diced
11/2 cups frozen sweet corn
1 cup frozen green peas
2 garlic cloves, smashed
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
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The FarmMade Cookbook is here! You can find it on Amazon and retail stores like Tractor Supply, Kroger, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Costco, etc… A time capsule of food, craft, and tradition, The FarmMade Cookbook shares seventy-five multi-generational recipes from farms all over the country. Hailing from New England, the Deep South, the Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest, each authentic farm-made recipe represents its region’s unique farming culture. Recipes are paired with each farm’s unique story of resilience and connection with the land, resulting in a tangible agrarian gift to us all.
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“Remember that special project we told you we’ve been working on lately? Its SOOO EXCITING!! We are officially announcing our latest endeavor ~ The FarmMade Craft Book ~ along with the new book cover reveal. Similar in design & format to The FarmMade Cookbook, we have been working with 50 farmers, ranchers and homesteaders across America, spanning five agricultural regions, to bring you a plethora of time-honored traditional farm craft and homesteading skills. Would you like to become increasingly more self sufficient? Then this invaluable instructional book is for you!! Included are crafts and skills such as: cheese-making, crochet, soap-making, pottery, fermentation, tea-blending, wreath-making, knitting, embroidery, jam-making, rendering lard, quilting, roasting coffee, repurposing furniture, milking a cow, water bath canning, goats milk lotion, flower arranging, indigo dying, bread-making, candle-making, barn quilts and much more!! Made by the farmer and taught by the farmer. Doesn’t get any more authentic then that right?
We are proud to present a new round of American farmers, ranchers and homesteaders within the pages of this new book, who live a lifestyle that preserves our collective agrarian heritage + long standing rural traditions. These folks are excited to share their wisdom with an ever-growing community interested in a more sustainable way of living. Let them impart their wisdom. Learn from years of practical living. You and your precious family will reap the many rewards. Meantime, we invite you to join our ever-growing farm family on Instagram and Facebook where we highlight and celebrate everything FARM-MADE!!
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Help Queens Farm Recover From A Horrific Fire |
As many of our customers know, Queens Farm suffered a devastating fire a month ago on August 20, 2021 that rendered the house uninhabitable. Thankfully, everyone made it out safely and we are very grateful both to the local fire department and our insurance company for making sure our family has remained safe and housed elsewhere during this past month.
Since 2003, Queens Farm has been a small family owned and operated farm dedicated to chemical free produce of the kind grocery stores didn’t supply. We’ve given our Asian customers a taste of home they haven’t been able to find in the US for decades, discussed health benefits and traded recipes for new favorites with all our customers, and in cycling through over one hundred varieties of produce a year, preserved numerous heirloom breeds, seven of which are various tomatoes. We’ve strived every day of the last 18 years to stay true to our founding mission of “Chemical Free, Unique, and Affordable.”
Any donations you provide will go directly to the Yin family to replace farm equipment, rebuild storage facilities, and get water and electricity turned on again asap. With your help, we hope to greet 2022 once again rooted and revitalized.
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Help Red H Farm Build Climate Resilience |
I’m reaching out to the community today because it has been a really tough year and Red H Farm needs some support. The cumulative impacts of climate change, from hotter summers, extreme local fire seasons and now a catastrophic drought have taken a deep toll on this farm and farmer. Because I dry farm half of the land, relying on residual soil moisture from winter rains for much of my spring and early summer harvest, I have lost a huge percentage of my production this year. Can you help?
On this small, 1.2 acre, no-till, agro-ecological, woman-owned-and-operated, hand-scale farm….that means I am at 50% of usual harvest and sales. This financial loss is quite catastrophic. Not only a financial toll, the impacts of drought on our ecosystem takes a really deep emotional toll. It is hard to explain what it feels like to walk through crackly fields and witness the loss. It has been a tough year.
This comes at a particularly difficult time when, in order to remain viable and keep this farm thriving in the face of our changing climate, I am in the midst of big transitions that require some costly infrastructure investments. Over the past eighteen months I have been developing a plan to expand and transition much of my production to storage crops grown for my new winter CSA program. These long term crops require less intense physical labor in the increasingly hot summer months and will make farming into the future possible for me.
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Help Rise & Root Recover From Hurricane Ida Losses |
Rise & Root Farm is raising money to cover the losses incurred by Hurricane Ida and flooding in our fields. We lost our tomato crop more than a month earlier than usual and our fall crops are either total losses or so stressed that they may or may not survive. We also lost several weeks of work as we waited for the water to receed, assessed the damage, and let the fields dry out enough to replant. We are ending our farmers’ market season about two months early because we don’t have enough produce to sell anymore.
Rise & Root Farm is a cooperatively owned business run by four women who are multigenerational, multi-racial, and LGBTQ+. We are committed to food justice and to being a healing farm and safe place for people from our communities. Rise & Root Farm is a small diversified vegetable farm located in Chester, NY on the famous black dirt. In addition to vegetables, we grow a mix of herbs and cut flowers. Our growing practices are organic or beyond.
The money we raise will help to cover our lost income for the remaining weeks of our growing season. It will go to pay our staff and to help us prepare for winter and spring crops.
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