New Product - GAPS legal soups!

Drum Roll please!

We are very happy to announce our first production run of GAPS LEGAL SOUPS made right here at Little Sprouts Farm!  These soups are perfect for anyone needing convenience but the high nutrition and careful cooking methods of GAPS intro or Full GAPS diet. 

OF course, they are just good nutritious soups for anytime!

The first run is a vegetable soup base (organic veggies, and our own chicken meat stock)  and an offering of 3 flavors of pork. You can order the soup as a vegetable soup or add the precooked pork to produce a quick meat based soup. Just heat and eat.. nutritious homemade soups!

We will be adding more flavors of soup and more proteins soon. For now, please give this a try and give us feedback!

Remember, you will need a paid farm membership to purchase the soup.  We can easily add this to your order. 

New product - plum preserves!

We just finished the first batch of an exciting new product...  Locally and organically grown plum preserves!  Yum!

There are two flavors,  tart or semi-sweet.   The only difference is the amount of sugar added.  

The plums are soft but still mostly intact.  The flavor is bright and strong.  The aroma is heavenly.  You can use these as a topping,  as runny jam,  maybe as a pie filling or even as a snack!

Watch for these to appear in the store this week for sale!

Hunters vertical potato garden

Hunter was assigned the job of raising food for our new bug project (which is food for the chickens).  Turns out that an efficient food source is potatoes!  They carry enough moisture for the bugs to live without a water source,  and are long lasting sources of food.  So,  he is growing potatoes as bug food.

Instead of rows of potatoes  to dig up one at a time...  He is building a vertical garden,.  A box made of wood,  that expands upward as the plants grow,  causing them to produce layer after layer of potatoes from the original plants.  Much more efficient than waiting for a plant to grow big and pulling it out. 

The idea is to plant potatoes on the ground inside the wood box with a single greatest 2x6 as a bed.  Once the plants are tall enough,  another layer of 2x6 goes in and the plan5er is filled with more dirt,  leaving the plant partially under the new dirt.  A new layer of potatoes is created at this layer,  and the layer below can be harvested without killing the plant. 

Hopefully with a few of these boxes,  he can raise enough potatoes to feed a hundred thousand mealworms in a small spot of real-estate.

Costly Mistakes Happen - and then you move on

And when they do...... sometimes you cant fix it.

Another freezer accident.  In the confusion of moving 3 freezers around and getting a new one... one box of product got left out, sitting quietly to the side at room temps... all night.  I have no one to blame but myself. I clearly remember setting the box off to the side myself, planning to get right back to it...  but didnt.

So, end result. We have lost all of our for sale pig organs, and most of the turkey parts.  We will be shuffling through whats left to see which orders if any we can fill, but alas, I suspect we will have none left.   If you ordered pig or turkey parts, we will be cancelling that off your order.

Unfortunately, there wont be replacements any time soon.

Sad, costly, frustrating.

But, when there is nothing possible to do about the past.. you move forward.

Pasture fodder system- - take 2

Well..  Our first attempt at a moveable pasture watering fodder system failed miserably.  Time for a few changes and take 2!

First,  higher sides.  Turns out the turkeys could reach through the chicken wire in the top and eat the grain.  We raised the top another 6 inches.

Second,  lower slope.  This design has water dripping at one end and exciting the other.  The slope of the trays was to steep so that the grain would break lose and slide down the tray.  Now there is a very gentle slope.

Third,  sides on the pallets instead of the top.  This makes the top lighter and easier to handle.

After the first day this design looks better.  The grain is in place,  soaked from bottom up nicely and evenly,  and no missing chunks from tried snatching a meal.