Your choice of: Tomato Garlic Chicken Salad Barbers' Cherry tomatoes and braised garlic, paired with Sap Bush Hollow pastured chicken OR Head cheese (c'mon! Ever tried it?) Sap Bush Hollow Pastured Pork and fresh herbs, served refreshingly cool over Barbers' greens, drizzled with olive oil … Read More >
The Radical Homemaker
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In 1979, Mom and Dad plunked their ideals and $40,000 down on some of the poorest farmland in one of the poorest counties in New York State. They dreamed of living off that land, of their children living off that land. And from the first night I laid my head down to rest on Sap Bush Hollow Farm as a child, I never wanted anything else. As I grew to adulthood and began a family of my own, I realized that this little farm was more than just a pastoral dream. It was an antidote to industrial food, climate change, harried living and social injustices. But how was one little grassfed livestock farm high in the mountains going to support two families? I looked to my Appalachian neighbors, who had lived well up here for generations, with little to no cash. If they could do it, so could we. We would simply have to learn to make what we couldn’t buy. I would become the radical homemaker.
I thought it was just a sensible choice. I didn’t know it would spark a revolution.
Thanks for dropping in. Feel free to look around and see what life is like for three generations of my family as we live, bicker, laugh, feast, farm and love high up here in these frost covered hills of Schoharie County, New York.
— Shannon Hayes, The Radical Homemaker
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Sap Bush Hollow Farm
Learn more about the farm where I grew up, one of the nation’s pioneering grassfed livestock farms. View our price lists, get directions, and find out when we’re open.
Culture Shock
Is this character, or is this cultural? I’ve just returned home from the cafe for lunch to find two Spanish teenagers melted across my living room couch, faces illuminated by smartphones. My own teenager has retreated to help her dad stack the firewood. I don’t think they notice she’s left them. … Read More >
Chicken Pot Pie
Now that you've learned to make the gluten-free pie crust, here's one more way to make use of it! Serves 4 2 Tbs lard or butter 1 medium potato, diced (super-small) 1 small onion, diced 1 carrot, diced 1 stalk celery, diced 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp ground black … Read More >
Adventures in Shopping
“We’re at a store called Pink. Did you know you can try on thongs over your shorts?” This is a week of many firsts: Saoirse’s first “hang out” at the mall with Martina, our foreign exchange student from Madrid; her first siting of a Wendy’s restaurant; her first exposure to the makeup aisle at … Read More >
