We want our little farmstand filled with things made with love and the intention to be beautiful, serviceable, and enjoyable.
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Farmstand Global Village Concept 2022
Color burst forth in 2022. Maybe it was a reaction to the pandemic, but I wanted color and lots of it. One thing for sure is that around here it’s always changing! 2021 2022 2023 March 2023 & August 2023
Miz Andie
But today, I’ll tell you about Miz Andie. The boys next door, you may have met them… they help us out on weekends and in pinches.
When they enter our home, I hear ” Hi Miz Andie!”After a few months, I thought to myself, I like the ring to this. I like hearing it. I’ll keep it. So I did. I decided to use Miz Andie as a kind of brand name. That’s how that was born.
(Thanks, Caleb, Owen, Cole, and Henry)
Care Instructions for Cinnamon Rolls
Don’t worry, the freeze beautifully. After dormancy and hibernation, bring them back to life slowly on the counter to room temperature. They will be delicious, thick, and rich.
To warm them to just baked and barely cooled off temperature, set the oven on “bread proof” mode, 30-35C (86-95F) which is perfect to warm them without melting the frosting. I
Hold the Toast
Instead, take a teeny weeny spoon and take a little bit of concentrated jelly and let it melt under your tongue, let it bloom in your mouth (it’s safe, it’s pure fruit and flavor) let it coat your tongue and swish around in your mouth.
That’s how to experience my jelly.
Food Insecurity
Growing up, our family didn’t have much. We were refugees that left a very successful life behind to build a life in a free country. We would have been very “food insecure” had my father not planted a garden wherever we lived. No matter where that was, the first thing he did was plant fruit…
Collard Greens
Here at Wingspread Farm we grow three varieties. We harvest when young all the way to the full grown, large leathery leaves. There is never any waste, if there are bugs, or worm eaten holes on them, the chickens get them. Win win for all of us.
Cinnamon Vapor
Overnight, this process continues, and then the roll becomes just the way I like it
Cinnamon Rolls
Today, I take this very same sweet dough, roll it out into a rectangular shape, then kick it up a few notches, by smearing a generous amount of butter, handfuls brown and white sugar, and a thick dusting of cinnamon bark powder, which then combine together into a thick syrup through the alchemy of heat, and we have our cinnamon roll, the culmination of eight hours of labor.
Farmstand Village Concept: 10/2021
We are getting close to fleshing out the idea, the big parts are in place. Now begins the tweaking of it. The fun part. I’m excited to see how it will all come together,