Reflections from Ellie Brown, Farm Apprentice It takes a lot to plan an orchard: a lot of dreaming, a lot of time, a lot of hands. It’s exiting to work on planning a project that will have such a long lifespan and influence in this place. I will be here to plant the trees, but …
What a great week in the kitchen! Monday, Tuesday and Thursday the kitchen crew invited a few members of Chewonki’s staff into our workspace to prepare a lunch for the community. We try to give our Guest Chefs the full experience, from designing the menu, preparing the food (with the kitchen staff) and enjoying the …
The one you’ve been waiting for! Thanks to cook Courtney Sonia for scaling the recipe down from 96 to 12-ish. Chewonki Chocolate Chip Cookies Cream together: 1 cup softened butter ¾ cup granulated sugar ¾ cup brown sugar Beat in: 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Stir in: 2½ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon …
This is a fun cheese that we’ve made a few times at Chewonki. It is a lactic cheese, which means that there is very little or no rennet added to the milk and the coagulation is mainly from lactic acid production. This cheese is made with the same molds that form the white rind on …
Oh, the love the between farmer and vegetable: so crisp and sweet, so full of tending and toil, reward and riches. All winter long, we farmers scour the pages of the seed catalogs, ogling vegetable variety names and descriptions. Who among us is not swept away by the thought of row upon row of King …
Chewonki’s kitchen is not just in the business of feeding humans! Some of the farm animals, Traveling Natural History Program birds and other four-legged friends of the Chewonki community benefit from our food system. During the summer months, our pigs receive pre-consumer food waste (food that has never been on somebody’s plate) from the kitchen …
We finally had to restock our potato supply. This season Chewonki’s farm supplied us with almost 700 pounds of storage potatoes and we supplemented that with 1000 pounds from Goranson Farm in Dresden way back in November. Yesterday, our farm crew delivered another 1000 pounds, Keuka golds, Green Mountains and a mix of red, gold …
The hardest thing about cheese making is the waiting. So Saturday I finally cut into a cheese that had been aging in our root cellar since early January. This is blue cheese based on Fourme d’Ambert, one of the oldest French cheeses. During production, the Chewonki farm milk is inoculated with Penicillium roqueforti, the bluish …
These days, as we check every couple of hours for signs of lambing in the barn (none yet – they’re still holding out!), sheep are constantly on my mind. Just this week a Semester 50 alumni named Maggie Kelly sent me the following essay, which she wrote for her college applications. It’s about a very …
I think I have a new favorite fish and kind of an unlikely one. It’s Acadian redfish (Sebastes fasciatus), also known as ocean perch. It’s unlikely because when I was in my teens I spent time lobster fishing and our bait was usually the carcasses of this fish, heavily salted and shipped from Canada. Nothing …
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