Open Farm Day is an annual event held across Maine, where farmers open their doors to their community and invite them to explore and learn about their farming practices. We always have an open door policy, and invite our customers to shop at our Farm Store and meet our family/animals year-round! This past Open Farm Day, we stocked up our shop with many seasonal treats including produce from Ironwood Farm, cheese from Swallowtail, Crooked Face and Copper Tail, yogurt from Fuzzy Udder and Milkhouse, and raspberries from Fruitful Meadows. It was a community-highlighted Farm Store that was supported by many of our wonderful community members throughout the day! Despite less-than-ideal weather…

Last week we celebrated Bumble Bee’s 16th birthday! She is a truly loved part of our farm and family, and has been with Misty Brook since the very start. If 16 sounds like a lot of years for a dairy cow, you’re not wrong… It is definitely something worth celebrating! The average life span of a dairy cow in the United States is 4-6 years, though their natural life expectancy is drastically more: 15-20 years! We hope to have many more years with sweet Bumbles. The life span vs life expectancy of most dairy cows in this country is so low because many farmers think that their cow’s productivity drops…

Wonton soup can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. Chances are your local Chinese restaurant can get you a plastic quart sized container of the soup, or you can create your own delicious, home-made version with a few simple ingredients! We made this wonton soup with one store-bought ingredient (wonton wrappers are a true time saver!) as well as some Misty Brook favorites: ground pork, our little pullet eggs, and veal bones for the rich broth. If you want to make your own wonton wrappers, we like this recipe. Check out our own stock recipe here! Wonton Soup Ingredients: 1 lb shredded cabbage (you…

You may have noticed that some of our standard-sized eggs have been replaced by smaller ones, not quite filing out the little nesting cups of the carton. What’s with these little eggs? Do they come from smaller chickens? A different variety? Young chickens, old chickens, nutrient-deprived ones? These are “pullet eggs” that come from our young, new-to-the-laying-game hens! A pullet is a female hen that is less than one year old. When a chick loses its downy feathers and develops adult feathers, it becomes known as a pullet (or a cockerel if it is male). They usually begin laying eggs between 16-24 weeks of age depending on the breed and…

Mongolian Beef with Misty Brook Farm Shaved Steak Shaved steak is the highlighted Misty Brook product in this delicious meal. This thinly sliced cut of beef is most often seared hot and shoved between two hoagie rolls, dropped into a near-boiling bowl of Vietnamese pho, or served like we do here: in a savory, Asian-inspired sauce with veggies and rice. If you don’t have our shaved steak on hand, place some flank steak in the freezer and slice thinly when it is almost frozen thorugh. Ingredients: 1/4 cup plus 1 Tb vegetable or sesame oil, divided 3 tsp freshly-minced garlic 1 Tb freshly-minced ginger 1/2 cup soy sauce or tamari…