Market Day.

Every Sunday we have a market where folks bring their produce and homemade food to sell. There is coffee and best of all, the chance to see your neighbors and friends in this spread out community. We go almost every week, and take our excess produce, eggs and cheese, if we have it.

This is what we took this week in September.
By the end of the day, only a few flowers were left!

Blossoms

Wow! Is there anything more optimistic then a row of Sunflowers? I think not!

This variety is called Teddy Bear.




We also have a great crop of Dahlias in the garden: truly they are the floozies of the flower world.

Cheese

A view of the dairy refridgerator with our 9 waxed cheeses and bottled milk.
Thank you Bessie!

Monday I made cheese #13, using 3 gallons of fine Bessie milk. When she first freshened in April we were getting over 3 gallons of milk a day, but now that we are sharing milk with Miss Sunshine, we only get the overnight milk, usually about 1 gallon. So it now takes several days to accumulate enough milk for a cheese.

We are calling it Farmhouse cheese - and each one is very different from the next. They must age for a minimum of 3 months and of the 4 we've eaten so far, several have been soft like a Havarti, and several others dry and crumbly, like a Wensledale. Either way they are all delicious!

Here are a couple of photos of Bessie and Sunshine this September.

Sunshine at 5 months.

Bessie - her sweet self. Due to calve in May 2010!