Gearing up for some soups!

Here we go again, gearing up for another educational and delicious dinner here at the hive. Our sold out soup social is this Friday night and we have chosen nine exciting soups to prepare for our guests.
*Roasted Garlic and Potato
*Borscht with a Lemon Sour Cream (from our one and only lemon that is from the cafe)
*Chili with beef and beans
*Smoky Cream of Corn Chowder with Bacon and Chicken
*Puree of Rutabaga
*Apple and Kohlrabi
*Rich Broth of Fall Mushrooms with Julienne Winter Vegetables
*Cream of Winter Squash
*Spicy Pork and Tomatillo Stew with Heirloom Christmas Limas
These soups are all made with our own homemade stocks, with all local meats, raised at farms that have been researched and we know that they are responsibly raising their animals while caring for the land they are farming, many stored foods, such as the tomatillos that we froze, the beets from my root cellar, the beans that we dried, herbs that we dried, brassicas that we left in the field and harvested this week, mushrooms that we foraged and dried, grains that we mill and for goodness sake, we grew our own lemon. We will be serving up salad that is grown in Highland in the greenhouses of Sorbello Farms, with our own apple cider vinaigrette, and bread, bread and more bread. Many of the folks attending will be taking a few minutes to speak about their food storage practices, including drying, freezing, fermenting, root cellaring, and many more tricks of the trade in food storage. If anyone is interested in having other food preservation education, I would love for you to let me know, as demand creates supply, and we could find exciting new storage options together. As you can now see, I am a giant food preservation dork.

Soup Social

Tell your friends, tell your neighbors...make your reservations...Wild Hive is having a soup social. Check out the flier. Look forward to things. January 29th. 6-9. By reservation only. Bottomless bowl of soups, and many soup options, salad, bread, and if you are good, maybe even some cookies. Call or email for more info.

Christmas in December?!

Oh boy. Here we are, wrapping presents for the kiddies and drinking beer. Again. It seemed like just last year that these moments were upon us. I have decided to bring headcheese that is cooking on the woodstove at home to my grandma's for Christmas dinner. Ummm. Maybe I can shape it into the shape of a spiral ham. Or not. So, it seems like it is time to start "christmas" shopping, and I appear to be able to do most of it right in my own home. Garlic for dad, beets for sister, do you think that the children will appreciate the rutabagas? We at Wild Hive wish you all a safe and happy holidays. Thank you for a wonderful year.

Dinner at the Hive

Well, well, well. Here some of you are. Eating. Meeting. Teaching. Learning. We had a dinner at the Hive last night, the first in our new series of events in which we hope to see many of you at. Next Friday we will be showing a movie and serving desserts and beverages. Contact us at the bakery if you are looking for details. Then, in January, we will be having a soup social, which is in essence a bottomless bowl of soup, shared by as many people as we can squeeze in. There will be many different soups, of varying creativity. I will post more details as the evening evolves, but I just find so much romance and depth in the idea of sharing in the same pot of soup with strangers, friends, neighbors, farmers, fermenters, teachers, writers, bakers, servers, thinkers, moms, dads, kids, uncles, goodness, I just want to share in some damn soup, with my extended community. Thank you to all who came last night, and thank you to all who would have if they could have. There will be more tables shared in the future.

Events at Wild Hive

So, we at Wild Hive are finally back in the saddle, and ready to bring educational events to you, the public, our community, our family and our friends. Really, those things tend to meld together. This Friday night we will be hosting a dinner in conjunction with Slow Foods Hudson Valley, and in honor of Terra Madre day. It is also a platform for us to present some new projects by members of the growing sustainable agriculture community of the Hudson Valley. Over a delicious local foods dinner, meeting new people and learning about foods, and the future of food security...what better way to spend a chilly December night? If you are looking for more info about the dinner, please email Amy at the bakery. wildhivefarmbakery@gmail.com The following Friday we will be screening a food based movie, Fresh, and having dessert and a roundtable discussion. I am including a picture here of some broccoli that I harvested yesterday, as I spent my day harvesting snow touched vegetables to serve you all this week. I might add, that there are some spicy braising greens in the store that you should all rush down here for. Well, maybe you should not rush, since there is sleet and snow between here and there, but you should carefully make your way here...Maybe on skis?