Some years back, a small Colorado goat - cheese maker called Haystack Mountain faced its version of a classic growth challenge: National demand was growing for its chèvres and other cheeses, and the company was struggling to find enough
local goat farmers to produce milk.
Not exact matches
I've always had a connection with
local farmers and growers, and supported them as much as I could from within the hotel — on my vacation I'd go up the Hudson Valley and make
goat cheese — but doing that for yourself, and making all of the choices for your own restaurant is very different.
This spring
farmers market salad highlights the best of May's produce, including beets, strawberries, and sugar snap peas, plus
local goat cheese and quail eggs.
All of the produce and the quail eggs are from Big Sycamore Farm in Decatur, TN and the
goat cheese is from Rafting
Goat Cheese in Old Fort, TN, so everything except the dressing is a
local ingredient that I got at the
farmers market or at the farm itself.
I'd thought that
goat's milk would be hard to get outside a
farmer's market, but have found in the past two weeks all over the city, at Whole Foods, my
local natural market and even Fresh Direct.
As I went through the recipe, I realized I had a lot of similar ingredients on hand, so I did a riff on the original recipe: chopped dates in place of currants, cucumbers in place of zucchini,
goat cheese (with sundried tomatoes and chili flakes, from the
local farmer's market) in place of feta, a basil / thyme / chive combo from my window box in place of the dill and green onions.
I was so excited when a
local farmer started selling his homemade
goat cheese at our
farmer's market.
Food is bought from
local farmers and companies — even the honey and
goat cheese are procured from the Drake Family Farm nearby.
These bars are some of the best places to sample authentic
local cuisine - from West Indian specialities such as conch fritters at Turners and curry
goat at Dennis», to seasonal produce from
local farmers at the stylish Jacqui O's.
Most of these studies are self serving and serve to confuse rather than illuminate, So what if the
local goat milk cost $ 15, did any study take into account the amount of chinese junk forgone by that purchase, or the possibility that the enriched
farmer splurged it on his new 12 mpg F150.
If it's all fenced in, find a
local farmer with some
goats and see if he'd be willing to let you «borrow» a few for a couple days and offer to pay for the diesel or whatever to drive them over and drop them off.