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Fixer upper used to be a Christmas tree farm, has air strip, fruit trees, large garden and greenhouse 30×90, pasture and hay fiends.

God has blessed us again as the storm just missed us by about 5-6 miles.

Anything that we had planted would have been destroyed and we’ve got a lot planted right now. Pictures of someone’s plants right down the road not ours thank God.

I got caught in the storm while my wife was planting back at the farm. My son slept through the whole thing.

One thing about having a milking cow is you need a method to store the milk when you have an over abundance.

This is why our ancestors created cheese

Raw milk cheese is some of the most delicious variety, it has many “flavor notes’ and is a composite of deliciousness.

Here’s or first farmhouse cheddar so we’re hoping it’s going to be a good one, this one took about 2 gallons of milk and should be ready to eat in about 4 to 6 weeks.

It’s been many years since we’ve milked a cow, the days of raw milk cheeses, butter, yogurt, raw milk, sour cream..etc are back.

We were steered to China Maine by Maine Organic Farmers Association and purchased a beautiful cow named Gwen from Two Loons Farm.

Gwen had her calf about five days ago and we named her “Butters”. Gwen and calf are doing great and hanging out together.

Milking Gwen was difficult the first time because she was not used to our arrangement and we needed to come up with a solution that was safe for both Gwen and us.

Searching for an economically sound milking stand we decided to try something we found online, we ended up making modifications to make the stand stronger and more worker friendly, we’ll have to make more mods on it as we go along but this fits our needs right now, costed about $150 in lumber and approximately $ 135 in hardware.

We’re ramping up operations at the new farm, meat birds, egg layers, lambs, 6 acres of garden space, bees and honey..and a whole lot more !

First time using “00” flour, prepared the dough and let it sit overnight. This is also called Italian flour” since it’s super finely ground.

I used this recipe:

https://www.ditalia.com/blogs/the-secret-sauce/caputo-00-flour-pizza-dough-recipe

SERVES

INGREDIENTS

250 grams King Arthur “Italian Style Flour’  (about 2 cups)

1/4 cup warm water

1/2 cup cool water

1/4 tsp Active Dry Yeast

1 tsp Fine Sea Salt

1/2 tsp Granulated Sugar

It was very easy to work with and you could literally roll it twice and then pick it up and spin it ,,done.

Next time I will use more dough for each pizza to make it thicker.

Used corn meal under the pizza so it would slide off nicely off the paddle into 500 degree oven with pizza stone.

This my first attempt at hand rolled bagels…they were delicious need work on the rolling and shaping technique.

Used this recipe :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrJtpCTZk38&feature=share