Taking the week “off”

Good morning All, 

What a week last week! After the storm we went out to assess the “damage”…. Pretty messy here, 

No power or cable, trees down on wires, the whole plastic sheet from the high tunnel completely torn to shreds, garage roof needs replacing  and Violet, well as you can tell, she is JUST NOT HAPPY about it ( or maybe just that I have forced her into yet another costume) at all….

Power was finally returned Dec 24 and cable on the 25th! Silence now reigns supreme again after the stand by generators were shut down. I am thankful that we have them, but good golly, they make a constant humming and after awhile……

So, with that being said, I know that our refrigerator is full full full, and I have heard from others that they are overloaded with holiday goodies….

So, we will be taking this week off to do more cleanup and repair..

But will resume all of the farm raised goodness for orders in the New Year…

I hope that all are well, and that the upcoming New Year holds all things delightful.

From our storm tossed farm to you, wishing all good things and glad that I have great folks that appreciate local foods and my goofy weekly updates!

Happy New Year!

Kath

New farm family member ... Barry!

Good Morning All!

This past weekend, we welcomed Barry to our ever expanding farm family!

Eleven years old, Barry is a Scottish collie, and just as sweet as can be. Joe has wanted an another larger in house dog, preferably an older dog in need of a home, and midweek last week, Barry came to Valley View Farm ! Well behaved, well loved, his former owners wanted him to have more of an outdoor active life, and we will make sure he has it here.Miss Violet is happy to see him, our house cats, not so much, but they will get over it. We will give him another week or so and then introduce  him to our big big boys.. they can be just a bit overwhelming, goof balls that they are.

Beginning this week Spicy Staples will be offering a 20 % off sale for the remainder of the holidays… let us know what we can put together for you…Jon’s spices and spice blends are the perfect holiday gift!

So the snow  yesterday made treacherous going on our back country roads, but goodness, soooooo pretty. The rain helped the snow to cling to the branches creating a strong outline on all the forests. Yippee!!! Winter is here!

We have added some new soups to our list this week, thankyou to all that ordered our freezer specials on soups last week to fill the winter freezers.

We look forward to hearing from you, our delivery this week will be Friday.

Thanks again, from our farm family to yours.. we appreciate you!

Kath

Thanksgiving...and giving and giving

Giving lots of gratitude ……. To all that ordered turkeys, pies, fixin’s for your holiday meals and especially for the 365 days a year that you all do your very best to buy locally grown food….it can be a struggle at times to buy from local producers, the large grocery stores certainly offer a marvelous temptation of diversity.. I wonder about how many miles that most of the food travels from and how it is treated as it is grown, harvested and shipped to the shopping locations… it boggles MY mind and at times makes my brain hurt.

Anyhow, thanks to all that have sent photos of the holiday birds as they emerged from ovens… so lovely to see, and thanks also for all the great feedback about fresh turkey eating.. I t makes Joe and I happy that we can provide these birds, fresh , raised with the freedom to enjoy their birdie lives ,never caged in tight spaces or force fed. Now, if I can figure out how to download those photos, we will post them onto the website……

Soups are on sale this week, we need the freezer space and we have some great varieties…..

Grateful for all of you, in so very many ways… and grateful that I am able to be doing exactly what I want to be doing… my folks always said to never stand in front of me when I set my mind to something. Even as a tiny little shrimp of a kid, this life is EXACTLY what I have wanted to do. 

Sorry, I couldn’t resist this one……

Have a great week my friends!

Kath