#makingbutter

On Saturday morning I got up at 5AM and put the cream in the ovens to warm up and went back to bed. I got up at 6:15AM and fed the dying cat and went to work on the posts backlog. At 7AM I took the cream

On Thursday evening, Tom brought the milk order with our first batch of cream for butter. On Friday morning I set it out on the counter in hopes it would warm to 64F which is perfect for making butter.

My husband and son went deepsea fishing on Thursday morning, leaving at 2:30AM for the long drive to the NH coast. My son took this. My husband took this one of the harbor. They got 14 haddock and 3 redfish.

Weighing eggs On Tuesday night the hens sent up a tiny pullet egg. They’ve been laying for almost a year now, or some of them have, so it’s unusual to get one now, but not unheard of. It’s next to an extra

On Tuesday we made our first butter. We were only able to get 1 gallon of cream, as there’s a high demand. We will be making butter each Tuesday in June until I have enough for the year. The cows just

Our raw milk dairy, Sidehill Farm in Hawley, MA starting offering ½ gallons of cream for sale in 2016. A few years back, I had found the lid and dasher to a good size butter churn at a tag sale for $7.

Make your own butter with a whole raw milk and a little patience!   Whole raw milk means that it's not homogenized and it's not pasteurized. You can use pasteurized if that's what you have available or