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Looks like we will get through with no storms!

Come down and support your local farms and vendors!

Elzire’s Acre Goat Milk Soap is here with the return of Chocolate S’Milk Sensation.

#chocolate_s’milk_sensation

#getgoatsoap

#hudsonfarmersmarket

No rain! No overwhelming heat!

Have no fear, Elzire’s Acre Goat Milk Soap is here!

Back by popular demand… Once In A Blue Moon! Ah, the lovely scent of Palo Santo 👏🏻

Just got our shipment of Soap Nets in right before we came out. Don’t forget yours with your soap!

#GetGoatSoap

#OnceInABlueMoon

#SimplyBodySoapNet

#AuburnFarmersMarket

They will be at the Auburn farmers market tonight!

#SimplyBodySoapNet

#SoapSaver

Half pricing soaps that have been upgraded… while they last!

#GetGoatSoap

#ShopSmall

Come down and see us at the Art Walk in Natick!

Great artists, vendors, food and music.

Come support your local artists and vendors.

Elzire’s Acre Goat Milk Soap is here! Right in front of Orange Therapy Fitness on Main St.

Mention the secret phrase “Get Goat Soap” and get $3 off your purchase of 3 soaps!

Gorgeous, sunny day in Shrewsbury!

Come support your local farmers and vendors.

We are here from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM!

Mention this post and receive $3 off three soaps purchased!

#GetGoatSoap

#shrewsburyfarmersmarket

#3off3

No rain here! No tornado warnings either! And no HEAT WAVE!

Just a beautiful day for a Farmers Market!

#elziresacre

#hudsonfarmersmarket

#feellikeakidagain

Pictures and It’s a long list! Goats, Lard, Halloumi cheese…

1 Get up at 4:45.

2 Get hubby off to work for 5:30.

3 Feed dogs and cat

4 Make Chia yogurt for Larissa and me for breakfast at the #CanalDistrictFarmersMarket

5 Go out at 5:45 to feed/milk goats

6 Bottle milk

7 Back out to feed horse, chickens & rabbits, new barn cat

8 Pack car for farmers market

9 shower

10 Pack breakfast, coffee, water, let dogs out, pee, dogs back in, lock up

11 Head to farmers market at 7:45

12 Market 9-12

13 Pack up at noon- literally on highway for 12:11

14 stop at The Pet Barn in Holden for canned cat food to bribe new barn cat

15 Home, let dogs out, unpack car, re water everyone outside (it’s 95 degrees out)

16 Take in process lard render pan out of fridge back on stove (ugh, it’s 95 degrees outside and I’m rendering #WalnutKitchens organic lard for soap- on day 3 !)

17 take bone broth (our own chicken!) that’s been cooking since last night out of instant pot, jar, clean pan, shut off lard

18 go pick up other set of displays at 2:10 from helper 15 minutes away

19 get home unpack car, turn lard back on

20 drain two bowls of soaking soy beans, put in Instant Pots (I have two, you’ll see why) one for Natto and one for Tempe (we eat tons of fermented foods). Pressure cook, 20 minutes, keep straining lard

21 Strain last nights Kefir, add new milk to strained grains, drink kefir, strain lard

22 let dogs out again, make coffee, talk to friend in Colorado, strain lard, watch 2 YouTube videos (Again) one on Tempeh and one on Natto as a refresher, strain lard

23 drain one pot of soybeans, make Tempeh, clean pan, strain lard (getting hot in here even with AC now- gas stove)

24 go out milk/feed goats

25 come in house, strain milk into InstantPot pan, add rennet, feed dogs & cat since Ian has tripped me 3 times wanting to eat, strain lard

26 go back out, feed horse, chickens, rabbits, bribe new barn cat with new food

27 husband comes home- back in house, cut curds in milk I just added rennet to (been sitting longer than I like, but it will come out ok), finish lard (11 quarts over 3 interrupted days- enough for 3, maybe 4 batches of lard soaps)

28 strain soybeans in other instant pot, continue to make Natto

29 husband gets sick of my enforced tv watching/cool off (he was in a Hot Hell for 12 hours) and requests a game of Rummy

30 my deal, play a hand, take cheese curds out of instant pot and ladle into cheese mold (husband patiently reads email on phone waiting for me to continue to play game) struggle with makeshift cheese press, set timer for 20 minutes, put water on to boil for brine for cheese -Did I mention I’m making Halloumi?

31 play game, get up when timer goes off, struggle with makeshift cheese Press again to flip cheese, struggle again to set the pressure (remember I broke my old sink recently with a barbell weight messing with this damn cheese press? and replaced with a $300 huge stainless job- honestly, would have been cheaper getting a real press- though this new sink is The Bomb!)Turn on instant pot to 190 for final cook of cheese

32 my deal, hubby cleans a bit while I’m shuffling and makes me a decaf

33 instant pot gets to temp, stop game again, struggle with freakin cheese press again to unmold & cut cheese and add to IP, set for 30 minutes, take boiling water from previously boiled water, add to container to cool for brine

34 continue with game, Its back and forth, mostly Chad winning

35 timer goes off, place cheese on rack to cool, strain whey, add to hot water

36 back to game, Chad beats me by 25 points, Chad goes into dark living room, on couch, snoring in 5 minutes

37 Write this blog while waiting for cheese to cool

38 salt cheese all sides with #HippyPilgrims herbed salt blend I got #AttleboroFarmersMarket 3 weeks ago (yup, I too, take short cuts, but their blends are kick ass and makes me look like a genius at making Halloumi)

39 wash pans while cheese forms a skin from the salt

49 place Halloumi in brine, put in fridge, eat the little bit of soft cheese I’ve strained off from the whey- PURE HEAVEN, warm, slightly sweet, and melts in my mouth- my reward for a long day, I don’t save any for hubby (he never knows he misses out on this delicacy!) wake hubby

50 bed by 11 as 4:45am isn’t far away- Freedom Ranger Chickens to process on the morrow while Chad’s at work (Another day off from soap making, but the chickens are a week over due and starting to crow- my POOR NEIGHBORS! Screaming goats and 20 roosters trying to crow- they sound like boys going through puberty! At 5am!)

#bonebroth from our organic chicken- will be solid gel tomorrow

#JustAnotherDayOnTheFarm

Is here today!!! We are too!

#GetGoatSoap #AtTheFarmersMarket

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