Hello again from the great wild north

Our AWESOME Easter Dinner!

Well alright, not THAT wild.  But different and wonderful. We are still checking out our new digs and enjoying what we have found so far.  We are obsessed with our Co-Op and all it's awesome offerings, every time we bring something new home to try we are just blown away by how very good it is. Recently I randomly bought a cup of Libertè yogurt (coconut) and was beyond impressed by it!  It was thick and creamy like greek yogurt but without the tartness that I associate with yogurt in general.  It has 5 bacteria strains which is more than I have seen in any other yogurt and it also has REAL FRUIT in it......amazing.  So of course we bought more and I have been eating them like a crazy person.

We also bought "rainbow eggs" from Gopher Broke Farms (love the name) and yes the eggs were all different colors naturally.  I guess if there are all different colored chickens there should be different colored eggs too.  They are white, light green, tan, dark tan and speckled too, pretty neat, oh and the yokes are a deep yellow, almost orange, they are so fluffy and creamy it's just nuts! I was just on their site, it looks like we have a farm visit in our future to them, I have a hankering for a fresh chicken!

The infamous Rainbow Eggs

....and the creamy yolks....

I feel like our soap company will do quite well in this environment where people do out of their way to buy local and buy handmade or more natural options than the commercial options that are available. Can you believe that there is no Target in Vermont at all? Although I like target because it is easy, I support the idea of keeping big box stores out to protect small business owners, so GO VERMONT!

Well that's it from me, I hope everyone is well and happy.

'till later
~A very happy Country Mouse

Where are they now???

Bread and Butter Farms, Store

Well we made it!  We officially moved into our new place on April 1 and have only a few boxes left which are going out of my life and into storage this weekend.  This place is really neat, our neighbors are nice, they are college students but not loud and fun to talk to.  We can walk to the main area within minutes and also to the co-op (which we are now proud members of!) we can also walk to the lake which we did last weekend to watch an amazing sunset.

Everyone keeps asking about the weather here, it's great!  I hate heat so the slightly cooler temperatures are perfect for me.  NO it has not snowed since we've been here, we moved to Vermont, not the north pole for pete's sake!

We have even managed to make a couple of friends and have been spreading our soaps and business cards about town which has all been very well received.

Last weekend was pretty neat, we decided to skip the farmer's market and go straight to one of the farms.  It was pretty cool, only about 15 minutes from our place and they have a little farm store set up which runs on the honor system (how cool is that?)  We were able to buy fresh raw milk which came out of ol' Bessy just that morning, we also bought a fresh loaf of bread, farm fresh eggs and some meats which looked just divine.  Then we wrote down what we purchased and paid for it.....amazing concept the honor system.

The milk came in a glass jar, it was really neat.  I tried very unsuccessfully to make butter, it seems my homesteading skills are still lacking, but it was fun to try (frusterating......that's more the word i need here.)  The milk tasted quite good, the eggs were wonderful, the meat amazing and well who can beat FRESH BREAD? I also took some of the milk and made soap with it which I am very excited about, it seems like it will be quite bubbly due to the extra goodness (proteins and fats) in the milk.

It's just the most darling red barn!

The co-op is equally as interesting, it is called Onion River Co-Op (how cute it that?) the fruit and veggie section is SO colorful, it's like a big healthy rainbow, i just love it!  Then there is a "bulk foods" section.......you bag your own spices, teas, flours, honey's nut butters, oats.....you name it then place a twisty tie with the bin number on it so you can be charged appropriately.....it's amazing, I could stand there all day and daydream about the herbs and spices.  Aside from these two fun areas, there is a nice wine/beer section, big seafood and meat departments and of course a cheese/deli type department.  Oh and also an awesome prepared foods section, we have not indulged yet but we may.

Our last and newest discovery is a place called Chicken Charlie's, it is apparently one of the founder's of Ben and Jerry's favorite places and I think it may now be ours too.  We ordered from there on a whim and OMG it's unbelievable......only in VT can you order "fast food" (and they deliver) and it will be chicken that comes right off of a healthy farm.....and mac n cheese where the cheese also is fresh off the farm.  It was the most amazing delivery food i have ever had!  And just moving from NYC that's saying ALOT!  Oh and the gravy......the gravy was unforgettable.

Sunset over lake Champlain

Well we ave many more adventures to go on up here in our new town so stay tuned for the fun.:)

Take care
~CM