January 2, 2014 at 7:38 pm (Artisan soap, Camu Camu Fruit, Castile Soap, Farming, Frankincense, Gluten Free, Goat Milk, goat milk soap, Handmade soap, Homesteading, Honey, honey wine, Lotion, Myrrh)
Tags: artisan soap, Camu Camu Fruit, Castile Soap, Frankincense, goats, Handmade Lotion, Handmade soap, Raspberry Lotion
We are having a SALE! WooHoo!!! First of all FREE SHIPPING on ALL orders!!! Then, as if that’s not enough, 30% off all items!!! Wow! …… Hurry! Supplies are limited and this sale is for the entire month of January or until we sell out! Just go to http://bairdrockfarm.storenvy.com/ !! Happy Shopping!!
January 2, 2014 at 2:03 am (Gluten Free, Gluten Free Baking, Gluten Free Recipes, Honey, Recipes)
Tags: dessert, food, Gluten Free, Gluten Free Baking, Gluten Free Recipes, honey, Recipes
Hi Everyone! Well, we have decided that we are sensitive to gluten, so we are now experimenting with gluten free cooking! It is really different! Even though I have been a chef/baker for many years, I was very unfamiliar with baking with gluten free ingredients. So, this is quite an adventure for me as well as my family as we try to make foods that taste like what we are used to. It is really awesome when a recipe comes out so awesome that you would never know it was gluten free! That is the case with this totally beautiful Banana bread that I made today. Check it out! Below is the recipe.
Gluten-Free Banana Bread
Gluten Free Banana Bread
3 bananas (really good and ripe)
4 large eggs
1 ½ Tablespoons vanilla
2 Tablespoons Honey
½ cup melted butter (you could also use coconut oil or another oil of your choosing)
1 cup Almond meal
1 ½ cup Gluten free flour* (you can make your own using the recipe below or you can buy premade Gluten free flour at most grocery stores)
1/3 teaspoon salt
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
Place all dry ingredients into food processor, pulse to mix. Add all the rest of the ingredients and pulse till well blended. Pour into buttered or pan sprayed loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-65 minutes or until pick inserted comes out clean.
*Gluten free flour mix:
300 grams brown rice flour
250 grams Sorghum flour
150 grams Tapioca flour
100 grams Sweet rice flour (I used white rice flour)
100 grams Potato flour
100 grams Corn Starch
50 grams pectin
Mix all together and store in a Ziploc bag.
December 6, 2013 at 2:45 am (Artisan soap, Camu Camu Fruit, Castile Soap, Frankincense, Goat Milk, goat milk soap, Handmade soap, Homesteading, Honey, honey wine, Lotion, Myrrh)
Tags: Camu Camu Fruit, Castile Soap, Frankincense, goat milk, Handmade Lotion, Handmade soap, Honey wine, Lavender, Lotion, Mead, Patchouli, Raspberry Lotion, soap
We are so excited and thankful for the extra shelf space at Yokes Fresh Market! It is great that we have been blessed with this opportunity to share our soaps and lotions with the folks in Northern Idaho!
All of our soaps and lotions at Yokes Fresh Market in Ponderay Idaho.
November 29, 2013 at 2:30 am (Artisan soap, Camu Camu Fruit, Frankincense, Goat Milk, goat milk soap, Handmade soap, honey wine, Myrrh)
Tags: Artisan, artisan soap, Camu Camu Fruit, Frankincense, Handmade Lotion, Handmade soap, Honey wine, Myrrh
New soaps added to our online store today! Sugar Plum Fairy, Peppermint Kiss, and Three Kings with Frankincense and Myrrh. All wonderful scents and skin loving soaps!
Sugar Plum Fairy Honey Wine Soap with Goat Milk and Camu Camu
Peppermint Kiss Honey Wine Soap with Goat milk and Camu Camu
Three Kings soap with Frankincense and Myrrh, Honey wine, Camu Camu and Goat Milk
October 29, 2013 at 3:57 am (Agriculture, Farming, Goat Milk, Goats)
Tags: farming
Barn Kitty
Here is one of our very happy kittens. They are all finally getting used to everyone. They still won’t let us touch them, but maybe in time, maybe with a bit of goat milk to soothe the little savage beasts 🙂
October 19, 2013 at 2:35 am (Agriculture, Farming, Goats, Handmade soap, Homesteading)
Tags: Artisan, farming, goats, home
Mama deer with her baby
We have lots of wildlife here on the farm….. more than just some wild chickens and goats! These deer showed up early in the morning for some breakfast. The mama deer looks like she really needs to eat more before the winter gets here, she is looking a bit thin. The little deer ate all the mushrooms on the lawn and then enjoyed grazing on the lovely dew covered grass. It is so nice to look out and watch them eat early in the morning….. as long as they are not in the garden Speaking of the garden, we are beginning to get it ready for a winter sleep. We have had some really hard frosts and all the plants are spent so Jake and Jeff started pulling up the dead plants in preparation for winter garden dressing. While they were working, they found quite a few really nice big potatoes that had grown from last years left overs. That is always a really nice surprise We will be planting the garlic soon, but will have to make sure we don’t plant too early and not too late either. Has to be just right.
The bachelor pad (Jim and Reggio’s house) will need some winter modifications before it snows to be sure they stay nice and warm in the winter. I would also love to give those two a bath, but not really sure how to go about it. I will have to do some research on how to bathe bucks and see if I can figure something out. The girls, especially Starr goat and Starbright, really love the way they smell and can’t resist their manliness ….. Lol! Gotta love these awesome goats! Starbright and Sugar will be the only girls that we will breed this fall so that we can continue to get milk from Bella and then we will possibly breed Bella in the spring so that we stagger the breeding. We shall see.
I am so glad to report that the chickens are giving up the eggs! Yay! We are still only getting about 11 out of 24 hens, but it is certainly a start.
Well, that’s all for now. G’night all….. sweet dreams ❤
October 15, 2013 at 3:21 am (Agriculture, Farming, Goat Milk, goat milk soap, Goats, Honey, LaMancha, Saanen)
Tags: farming, goat milk, goats, honey
Happy Sunny Honey Bear
Good evening all! Well we had a most beautiful day here on the farm as you can see by the very happy goat in the picture. The day began very cold, 27 degrees to be exact, but warmed up to 57 and was very sunny so a very good day to get lots done. Of course the goats figured it was a beautiful day to lay in the sun and just soak up the rays. They were all very happy all day and played on the rocks and climbed trees until bed time.
The hens are really stepping up their game these days! We are getting 9 to 11 eggs daily which is really awesome! I am including goat milk in their diet to help them on their road to becoming the greatest egg layers ever…… they are so cute. We do have one egg eater in the hen house, not sure who it is, but I think it may be one of the Buffs. We shall keep an eye out for the notorious egg eating henny penny.
The boys made lovely BBQ ribs for dinner tonight, which they started early this morning. Talk about wonderful! Fall off the bone awesome. And to top it all off, Jake made a killer BBQ sauce to go with them. Delish! So, for a wonderful treat, I made chocolate pudding for dessert made with yummy goat milk which came out totally yummy!
As you can imagine, all the wonderful sunshine, BBQ, and pudding has me very tired and ready to sleep so g’night all….. sweet dreams ❤
July 31, 2013 at 3:37 am (Agriculture, Artisan soap, Camu Camu Fruit, Castile Soap, Farming, Goat Milk, goat milk soap, Goats, Handmade soap, Homesteading, honey wine, Lotion)
Tags: artisan soap, farming, goat milk, Handmade Lotion, Handmade soap, Honey wine, Lavender, Lotion, Mead, Raspberry Lotion
Display of our Castile Soaps at Bushels Store in Newport Washington.
Well, we had a very busy day bottling lotions and liquid soaps for two large orders. It is so wonderful that so many people are enjoying our soaps and lotions! I know I love them and use them every day so I can just imagine that many feel the same way. I like using clean soaps with no yucky stuff in it and lotions that have ingredients that are familiar and have nothing to do with brake fluid or anti freeze. My daughter told me years ago to watch out for any product that listed propylene glycol as one of the ingredients. It is a toxic chemical which is in many health and beauty products and food as well. It is also used in antifreeze and brake fluid. So, when I had trouble finding products without propylene glycol in them I decided that I would have to begin making my own. So, here I am just selling the goodies that I make for me and my family so that we don’t have to use toxic chemicals on our skin.
Well, that is just a bit of the history of our soapmaking adventure….. I hope you take a moment and check the ingredients on your beauty products and food items and make sure you can pronounce and identify the items in them. You will be glad you did. 🙂
July 29, 2013 at 3:39 am (Agriculture, Farming, Homesteading)
Tags: Bunny, farming, goatmilk cheese, goats, homemade cheese, mozzarella cheese
Our Resident Bunny Foo Foo
I got this awesome picture of our resident Bunny Foo Foo eating the greens between the rocks in our walkway. This is the baby of our other resident mommy bunny who lives in the stack of pallets. They are so cute and sweet, but the goats think they are beasts and are very cautious around them. It is rather fun to watch them when the bunnies run around in the goat pen.
Today was very busy making bread and cleaning and doing all manner of farm work; then running with the goats for a while, which was really nice. I love to run with them! They get so excited and they kind of hop while they are running, kind of like a deer. They really like to come out and play in the late afternoon and today was an exceptionally nice day to run and play with them.
Tomorrow we will make some cheese. Not sure what kind of cheese I will be making, but I have quite a bit of milk that needs to be used so maybe some cottage cheese or some mozzarella. Those are both easy and quick to make….. we shall see.
July 28, 2013 at 6:13 pm (Agriculture, Alpine, Artisan cheese, Artisan soap, Farming, Goat Milk, goat milk soap, Goats, Homesteading, honey wine, LaMancha)
Tags: Alpine doe, Artisan, farming, goats, Nigerian Dwarf
First tomatillo’s of the season!
Our baby Sexlinks aren’t babies any more…
Our baby barred rock’s aren’t babies any more…..
She has grown so much…. what a love ❤
Bella wants to know what that light is and why it keeps flashing on her….
The biggest goat and the smallest goat…
Honey is watching Mr. Farmer get her house ready for her to go to bed…
Baird~Rock Farm 