by Douglas Brown | Apr 27, 2018 | biodynamic, Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farm to table, farmers market, organic, pig, sheep
We have considered it for years, and finally it is a lively reality at the Farmers’ Market: Just as we craft and serve food in our restaurants, now we are doing the same at the Market. Pork burgers from our heritage Mulefoot pigs. Lamb ragout, from our big flock of...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 20, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest, sheep
We shepherd, protect and nurture about 100 sheep, give or take, plus some rams. When the sheep give birth to lambs, the ovis aries population roughly doubles — this year’s lambing gave us a bit more than 90 little ones, teeter-tottering their way across the...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 7, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, bramble & hare, farmers market, harvest
Seventy-two degrees and breezy. Robin’s egg skies, with cottony clouds. Plants luscious and strong, due to the recent rains and snow. This is our kind of harvest day. Friday is always a busy harvest day for us — between Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in the...
by Douglas Brown | Apr 6, 2017 | arugula, belgian endive, Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, chickens, leeks, sheep
When it’s 68 and sunny on a June morning, with the fields dew-spangled but not sodden, the breeze like a lamb’s breath, the meadowlarks belting our arias, the young basil perfuming the air — when all of these things conspire the farming experience...
by Douglas Brown | Mar 24, 2017 | Black Cat Bistro, black cat farm, sheep
If you listen closely, you might hear the soil singing this morning. It’s a Beatles song — “Raiiiiiiiin | I don’t mind” The soil, in fact, is rejoicing. And so are the sheep, the lambs and our lead guard dog Chloe, an Akbash, which is a breed...
