We have got milk!
One of my friend's cows just calved and my neighbor is swimming in raw cow's milk.
If you need some, reply to this email and I will coordinate with you on how to get ahold of some.
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I just tried a new recipe, called Croque Madame, that has become my new favorite breakfast.
You can't go wrong with milk, eggs, butter, cheese, and sourdough!
Check it out HERE.
Some NEW Products available from Taste of the Wind this month
and more!
Peruse our online store HERE.
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Attention bacon-lovers!!!!
I will be taking a break from selling pork this year, but I found a local pork producer who is all stocked up on pastured pork.
If you are on the hunt for pastured pork, reply to this email and I will put you in contact with the farm!
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Join us for a Real-Food PARTY!
I will be hosting the first Potluck for the Laramie Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation at our house on January 20th, to help kick off 2024 with good food and good folks.
Let me know if you are interested in coming and I will send you the details.
This is an opportunity for WAPF enthusiasts to gather and share ideas and get to know each other.
If you have no idea what the Weston A Price Foundation is, you can learn more on their website HERE.
A wooly farm development...
Lately I've been delving into the mechanics of sweaters. I have knitted and crocheted since I was pretty young, but I have never really followed a knitting pattern
I have been playing with the idea of turning some wool from my flock into yarn this year, so my social media feed has started sending me photos of sweaters.
Creepy, but also kind of cool.
I saw this sweater on Instagram, and I knew I had to figure it out...
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Thing is, I started a sweater years ago, when I decided to get into raising Icelandic Sheep, and that sweater was sitting at about half-way done when I saw this new sweater pattern I wanted to try.
I knew if I started a new sweater with the old one unfinished, I may never finish the first one...
So, I finally finished the 4 year old project that I thought I would never finish.
Here it is!
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It is a hilarious sweater!
I didn't use a pattern, I just winged it.
I figured I could make a sweater out of tubes and squares sewn together, and I did...
It's definitely wearable, but it has a funny fit to it, and the sleeves are too long, but it will always be my first sweater, and it's extra special, because it's made from Icelandic Lopi yarn.
Now, the mysterious door of knitting sweaters is forever broken down in my life.
I will never go back to never having knit a sweater before, and I feel good about starting 2024 like that.
Something feels liberating about finishing a project that I sat on for a couple of years. It gives me hope for some of the other projects sitting in the same state.
I have this feeling that a part of me is coming back, that I lost for a while. I think having a child really sucked up all of my creative energy for the past two years. I guess it makes sense, it does take a lot of energy to create a human...
Life seems like it could lead me down so many unexpected, surprising and fascinating paths this year, and I suddenly am looking forward to that unexpected, winding element of 2024.
What projects have you been sitting on, and what new ones are you planning to take on in 2024?
I hope this year shows you surprises like the sweater that motivated me to bust right through that uncertain realm, and to claim my creative self back in a small way.
I hope 2024 encourages you to forego your fears, to leave your worries behind, and press on regardless of the possibility of sleeves that are too long, and a fit that isn't quite perfect.
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We don't have to get things right the first time, and life doesn't seem to go how we plan- no matter how hard we try.
It's for the best really, because if it was up to us- life could never turn out any greater than our own small imaginations.
Sometimes we just have to go for it and make adjustments along the way.
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Even if that means we learn things the hard way.
I truly believe in the joy of the experience, and the value of the path building towards an end goal, being more important than the result that motivated us to begin.
For me, recounting my recent experience isn't about how my first sweater turned out, but more about the things I learned, and the excitement I feel when I think about how that first sweater will inform my future projects to come.
Here's to a 2024 full of learning, experiencing, and a compiling of things to look forward to.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy 2024!
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-BJ and the Taste of the Wind Crew
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