: About Me

I am a dairy farmer and cheesemaker. I like to write and speak at conferences. I am trying to improve my writing skills and have always thought that Freelance Writing was a great way to make money during my "down time" in the cooler months.

I am well versed in organic farming, use and function of heritage breeds, marketing, sustainable agriculture, local food systems, conservation, and about everything else associated with farming. I also homeschool my only daughter and live in a rural community. I have lived abroad and am pretty well read.

Passion sometimes takes over and I am very good at researching topics that I know little or nothing about. In college, I loved taking those long research articles and making those one paragraph abstracts.

My passion is ...

the process of making traditional foods

I know too much about ...

a lot of things

My parents always told me ...

get a good job

My childhood ambition ...

do something with animals

My favorite memory ...

fishing with my dad

Why I write ...

organize the random bits of knowledge in my head

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

My first job ...

picking peas at a local farm at 7 years old

My best moment ...

when my mentor tasted my first cheese and said, "wow! this is actually very good". That is a big compliment from him.

My inspiration ...

lately, Val Bines, cheese maker in UK

Food & Drink > Dairy & Eggs Recipes: Homemade yogurt

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Yogurt, yoghurt, laban... These are all names for one of the oldest fermented milk products discovered by man. Most yogurt in stores are what you call cup set yogurt. They are often slurries of yogurt with sweet processed fruits, thickeners and preservatives. Some are cooked to death to make it last through the rigors of a supermarket existence before you bring it home to eat. I prefer living food. Food as nature intended. This recipe is a cream-top yogurt. It is simply milk and cultures. For flavors, I've also added recipes for Maple flavored and Maple Vanilla flavored yogurt. You can als...

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