Meat The Rabbit

Today is "Meat the Rabbit" Day at the Farm. We're picking up our own homegrown whole rabbits from the processor today.  The whole, frozen rabbits will be available for purchase in the farm store.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Poinsettia Open House

 

Mark your calendars for Sunday, December 2nd from 12:30-4:30! You will not want to miss Mitchells Nursery's Poinsettia Open House. 

They are growing over 8,000 poinsettias with 80 different kinds. Go see an amazing greenhouse full of red, white, burgundy, jingle bells, and a mixture of these. Some even have double blooms. Vote on your favorites and get into the Christmas spirit. There will be free refreshments and door prizes. The event is free.

There will be poinsettias available for purchase and can be custom wrapped with a hand tied bow.

Get in the Christmas spirit!

http://myfox8.com/2012/11/27/new-varieties-of-poinsettias-just-in-time-for-the-holidays/

1088 W. Dalton Rd King, North Carolina 27021
336-983-4107

Lost but Not Forgotten

This 8x10" oil painting, "Lost but Not Forgotten" of St Philips, was painted by Amy Evans.  It will be part of one of the longest running Miniature shows in the U.S. which is held at the local Germanton Gellery and Winery.   The 20th Annual Southest Invitational Miniature Art Show will run November 30th thru January 1st.

Staying local for Small Business Saturday

WXII 12 News reporter Stephanie Berzinski and photographer Joey McDonald visited our farm store on Saturday morning to do a segment on Small Business Saturday.

We appreciate everyone who chose to "Shop Small" with us on Saturday and all of the customer who visit us every day!

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Small Business Saturday

 

Our celebration of Small Business Saturday has been a busy day!

On Small Business Saturday (November 24th), customers can SAMPLE our goat's milk cheese and soap, jams and jellies from Mother Holtz Farm, honey from Tyson Farm, candy from Piedmont Candy Company, and Raven's Moon goat's milk lotions.

Everyone who stops by today can enter to win a gift set containing our goat's milk soap! Each customer spending at least $10 will receive a FREE ornament (available in the store for $5) .

Visit our website to learn more about our farm and what is available in the farm store!

We, along with other small businesses, appreciate your support on this day and all year long!

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Tomorrow

 Tomorrow the farm store will be open for a celebration of Small Business Saturday, 

On Small Business Saturday (November 24th), customers will be able to SAMPLE our goat's milk cheese and soap, jams and jellies from Mother Holtz Farm, honey from Tyson Farm, candy from Piedmont Candy Company, and Raven's Moon goat's milk lotions.

Everyone who stops by on Saturday can enter to win a gift set containing our goat's milk soap! Each customer spending at least $10 will receive a FREE ornament (available in the store for $5) .

If the weather cooperates, there may be a couple special 'guests' joining us at the store to help celebrate. Check the farm's Facebook page closer to the event for more details.
 

Visit our website to learn more about our farm and what is available in the farm store!

www.buffalocreekfarmandcreamery.com

Hope to see you tomorrow! We, along with other small businesses, appreciate your support on this day and all year long! 

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! 

The farm store will be open normal hours every day Thanksgiving week, so if you want to get out of the house come on over!

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Meow!

If you've stopped by our farm store, you've likely been introduced to Simon.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Workshop: Fiber Animal Production

December 5, 2012
8:30a - 5pm

The Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension will offer a workshop on fiber animal production at the Silk Hope Farm Heritage Center in Silk Hope, NC. We offer a full day of educational programs and exhibits, plus lots of opportunities for sharing and networking and show and tell!
Program Agenda:
Introduction and Learning Resources – Debbie Roos, Chatham County Cooperative Extension
Animal Care - Dr. Barbara Walton, DVM, Third Street Veterinary Clinic

• How to Find a Veterinarian
• First Aid Kit for the Farm
• Preventative Care
• Common Ailments and Diseases

How to Control those Pesky Worms: Integrated Parasite Management for Small Ruminants – Dr. Niki Whitley, North Carolina A&T State University
Forage and Nutrition – Sam Groce, Chatham County Cooperative Extension, and Dr. Jean-Marie Luginbuhl, North Carolina State University

• How to Establish & Maintain Pasture
• Forage and Browse for the Piedmont Region
• NCSU Research on Lespedeza for Parasite Control

Animal Spotlights: Producers will discuss breeds, harvesting fiber, unique production needs, and more!

• Sheep - Ann Fay, Rising Meadow Farm
• Angora Goats and Rabbits - Elaina Kenyon, Avillion Farm
• Alpacas – Rosmarie Rosenbloom, Black Tulip Farms
• Cashmere Goats and Llamas – Laura Young, Dew Dance Farm

Producer Panel:

• Marketing Fiber (internet, farmers’ markets, fiber artist guilds, yarn shops, social media, etc. )
• Income Potential from Fiber Animal Production

Exhibitors: All the producers will have exhibits of their fiber products and tools and equipment for harvesting and processing fiber.
A local lunch will be catered by Celebrity Dairy.
Participants will receive handouts and a Resource CD. Cost of the workshop is $45 and includes breakfast, local lunch, and the CD. Pre-registration is required. The deadline for registration is November 30.Space is limited so register early!
To register, visit Cooperative Extension’s Growing Small Farms website and download a registration form:http://bit.ly/GSFworkshops
Call 919-542-8202 or email Debbie Roos at debbie.roos@chathamnc.org for more information.

Shop Small

 

Celebrate Small Business Saturday with Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery

 

Our farm is located on the Forsyth/Stokes County line, near the intersection of Hwy 65 and Hwy 8 (Germanton Rd)--6 miles from Winston-Salem. Our farm store is open daily 9-6 Monday-Saturday and 1-6 on Sundays.

In our farm store, we sell our aged raw milk goat cheese, farm-fresh eggs, farmstead meats (beef, lamb, chicken, rabbit), and handmade goat's milk soap. We also sell handmade gifts, local country ham, jams, jellies, candy and honey. Farm and goat gifts are available also - toys, necklaces, ornaments, windchimes and more!

On Small Business Saturday (November 24th), customers will be able to SAMPLE our goat's milk cheese and soap, jams and jellies from Mother Holtz Farm, honey from Tyson Farm, candy from Piedmont Candy Company, and Raven's Moon goat's milk lotions.

Everyone who stops by on Saturday can enter to win a gift set containing our goat's milk soap! Each customer spending at least $10 will receive a FREE ornament (available in the store for $5) .

If the weather cooperates, there may be a couple special 'guests' joining us at the store to help celebrate. Check the farm's Facebook page closer to the event for more details.

Visit our website to learn more about our farm and what is available in the farm store!

www.buffalocreekfarmandcreamery.com

Hope to see you the 24th if not before! Remember to support other small businesses in your area on this day and all year long too!

 

 

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Farm Love

 

Show your farm love with a unique tile displayed on a funky silverplated fork easel by our web-nanny DinnerTimeChimes.

Shop online or stop by our farm store.

Options...
-Keep Calm and Cluck On
-Keep Calm and Love Goats (image options: Nubian doe, Nigerian doe, Pygmy)
-Keep Calm and Love Sheep
-Keep Calm and Count Sheep
-Keep Calm and Love Rabbits
-Keep Calm and Love Llamas
-Keep Calm and Love Cows
-Keep Calm and Love Horses
-Milk life for all it's worth! (image options: Nubian doe, Nigerian doe)
-------Additional images and/or wording may be possible!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Yesterday was the day . . .

Our first raw milk goat milk Havarti style cheese has been aging for 120 days. We opened our first wheel yesterday morning and what a pretty cheese. A sharp, smooth, creamy flavor that becomes sharper with age. Come by the farm store and try some for yourself!

 

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Christmas Open House and Decking the Farm

Christmas Open House and Decking the Farm
Saturday, December 8, 2012
11:00 am to 4:00 pm

 

Come deck the Malcolm Blue Farm with holly, pine boughs and wreaths. It’s an interactive open house where the visitors participate in making the decorations and adorning the native cedar, weaving grapevine wreaths, tying bows of holly and pine and turning pinecones into birdfeeders. Relax inside stringing popcorn by the fire while listening to local musicians.

Come for the tours and stay for the day. Their will be Brunswick stew, cornbread, an old fashioned candy buffet and hot cider. Monetary donations to the farm are encouraged.

MBHS founder Martha Swaringen says, “The Blue Farm Open House has been a tradition for thirty-six years. This year we are giving our guests the chance to be active participants in decorating the farm. Guided by the Blue’s Family Cookery we have recreated tastes from the past and welcome everybody to sample old Southern recipes of Brunswick stew and homemade sweets.”

Join us at our Annual Board Meeting from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.

 

 

Malcolm Blue Farm open Friday and Saturday 1-4 pm. Please call for appointments for other times and/or dates.
1177 Bethesda Road, P.O. Box 603, Aberdeen, NC 28315 - Telephone/fax 910-944-7558 - malcolmblue@windstream.net

Extension Master Gardener Volunteers Coming to Stokes County!

I am pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for the gardening community of Stokes County. The Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Program is coming to Stokes County in 2013.

A Brief History

From 1914 until after World War II, the main audience for the Cooperative Extension program was the American farm family. But the explosive growth of the American suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s fueled unprecedented interest in lawns, ornamental gardens, and small-scale vegetable crops. Local county extension offices in booming areas began to be overwhelmed with questions pouring in from suburban homeowners.

To meet this challenge, the effort that would become the first Master Gardener program was launched in 1973 by Washington State’s Cooperative Extension Service. Among the approaches considered was the concept of recruiting and training volunteers to serve the urban audience. This appeared to be the most feasible option as it would allow Area Agents David Gibby and Bill Scheer to be proactive in fulfilling educational needs.

A small cadre of volunteers underwent formal training to handle typical inquiries about lawn care, flower and vegetable gardens, pesticides, the environment and more. The volunteer force quickly proved its worth to the extension program as they did indeed afford local extension agents more time to focus on educational programs and the more technical horticulture questions.

The Master Gardener concept soon spread, eventually taking root in all fifty states. Today, thousands of certified Master Gardener volunteers throughout the nation work alongside Cooperative Extension staff to reach out to the public through workshops, publications, demonstration gardens, plant clinics, telephone hotlines and other projects.

To help you decide if you should apply to become a Master Gardener Volunteer, ask yourself these questions:

• Do I want to learn more about the culture of many types of plants?
• Am I eager to participate in a practical and intense training program?
• Do I look forward to sharing knowledge with people in my community?
• Do I have enough time to attend training sessions and to serve as a volunteer?

If you answered yes to these questions, the Extension Master Gardener Program could be for you!

What do I do next?

• Attend the planning / informational meeting at the Stokes Cooperative Extension office on Tuesday, December 4 at 7:00 PM

What will it cost?

• There is no cost to attend the informational meeting. The cost of the Extension Master Gardener Program will be $100 per person

What will I get?

• The Extension Master Gardener Training Manual, filled with the best, first rate, up to the minute horticulture information

• 16 weeks of intensive horticulture training

• The opportunity to participate in lots of fun activities such as –

• Create and maintain a demonstration garden
• Garden with the elderly and handicapped
• Work at county fairs and plant clinics
• Conduct school gardening program
• Give talks to groups interested in horticulture
• Work on special events projects (Arbor Day, Wake Up to Agriculture, Environmental Field Days)
• Plan and complete community beautification projects
• Photograph Master Gardener activities
• Judge school science fair
• Establish and maintain community gardens

I hope to see you at our informational meeting on December 4 at 7:00 pm!

-Randy Fulk, Horticulture Extension Agent- Stokes County

Goat Love

It's always a fun day when the grands are both at the farm and helping in the farm store!

 

It tough to keep them out of the pasture. 

They LOVE the Nubian goats, especially when there's baby goats!

 

 

 

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019
336.969.5698

Carolina Meat Conference

December 3rd and 4th 2012
with a very special keynote address by
Dr. Temple Grandin
and dinner with the Blind Pig of Asheville
WinMock Barn and Event Center, Bermuda Run, NC

 

Join a diverse group of professionals within the local and niche meat industry for two days of panel discussions, workshops, networking and demonstrations! Topics include cured meats in retail and foodservice, efficiency in small plants, regulatory issues, controlling input costs in pastured meat production, challenges of value-added processing, innovative marketing, and more! Back by popular demand- intensive hands-on workshops for consumers, farmers and chefs.

 

Online registration for the 2nd Annual Carolina Meat Conference is open at www.carolinameatconference.com

…with special Monday night social, dinner with the Blind Pig Supper Club, welcome and comments with Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler and keynote address with Dr. Temple Grandin and featuring some of NC’s best farmers, meat processors, educators and food professionals including: Acre Station Meat Farm Chop Shop, Butchery Foothills Pilot Plant, Mays Meats, Proffitt Family Farm, Rogers Cattle Company, Rose’s Meats, and Sweets San Giusseppe Salami Company, Weeping Radish Brewery and Butchery and many more…

as well as
Animal Welfare Approved
Kari Underly, Range, Inc, Chicago, IL
Adam Tiberio, Tiberio Custom Meats, Brooklyn, NY
Craig Deihl Cypress, Charleston, SC
Tanya Cauthen, Belmont Butchery, Richmond
VA T&E Meats, Harrisonburg
VA Arion Thiboumery
NMPAN and Lorentz Meats

 

How Much Does It Cost?2 day General Registration $145
includes 2 light breakfasts, 2 lunches and breaks
Monday Night Social, Dinner with The Blind Pig and Keynote with Dr. Temple Grandin
$29 with General Registration
$60 for those not attending the conference

Download the Sneak Peak here! The complete conference schedule will be available soon. For updates, stay tuned to the NC Choices listserve, join us on Facebook or at www.carolinameatconference.com

North Carolina Cooperative Extension personnel should contact casey@ncchoices.com before registering for General Sessions.

Sponsorship and Exhibitor Space is still available. Contact meredith@ncchoices.com for more information.

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New goodies

Check out these new goodies available in our farm store ...

 

pig note pads

handmade pot holders

rulers

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

LOVE these shirts!

I LOVE these shirts! 

They’re less than $13 bucks, but more importantly they have goats on them!!  

There is usually an online coupon for CafePress making the deal even better—percentage  off, free shopping, etc.  These designs are available on other items too – tote, sweatshirts, coffee cup, apron, etc.

I’m a Stock Broker

The More Stock I Get The Broker I Become

 

You can buy one for yourself or buy gifts for barn buddies on CafePress here:
goat only image 
or

chicken, cow, goat, sheep, horse, pig image

Workshop: How to Start your own Specialty Food Business

 

November 10, 2012

8:30am - 4:30pm

 

Workshop presenter Jody Currin brings her recipe for successful entrepreneurship to James Sprunt Community College!

 

Topics include:
-What it takes for long-term success in the food business
-Understanding the food industry
-Getting ready to market
-Product packaging, labeling, and pricing
-Marketing

About the presenter:
Mrs. Picky Fanicky, as Jody Currin has become known, started her own food business in Erwin, NC in 2009 with her now famous marmalades. Since then, she has added many products such as her “Mrs. Picky’s Biskits” that won an award at the International Biscuit Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2011, and her award winning “Jacob’s Crazy Good Ketchup” that she co-produces with her son, Jacob. She has been featured in many newspapers and magazines, and was recently in Our State Magazine’s feature story on “100 Foods You Must Eat in North Carolina’s 100 counties.”

Location:Eastern Carolina Food Ventures Incubator Kitchen
946 Penney Branch Rd., Warsaw, NC

More information and registration:This workshop is sponsored by the James Sprunt Community College. The workshop fee of $50 per person will be paid by the NC Tobacco Trust Fund Commission.
The class is limited to 25 attendees so call or email to register early at 910-296-2431, 910-290-0525, or sbc@jamessprunt.edu. Lunch will be included in the workshop.

Artisan Cheese Workshop

 

Workshop: Artisan Cheese Making
December 4, 2012 9:00am to 3:00pm

Presented by the Piedmont Farm School, topics include:

- Cheese Making Food Safety Guidelines
- NCDA Regulations- Artisan Cheese Making Demonstration- Questions/Answers with Local Cheese Makers

COST: $25 (includes lunch)

LOCATION: Iredell Extension Office
444 Bristol Drive, Statesville, NC 28677

To Pre-register: Call 704-873‐0507 or e‐mail kelly_pierce@ncsu.edu by Nov. 30.
Make checks payable to Iredell County Cooperative Extension and mail to
PO Box 311, Statesville, NC 28687, Attention: Kelly Pierce

We signed on the dotted line . . .

We ordered a 30 gallon pasteurizer for Spring, 2013 delivery.  We need to sell lots of our goats milk cheese in our farm store!

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

 

Yes, all 3 minutes worth!

A YouTube documentary of our town from one end to the other - - - Yes, all 3 minutes worth!

We're the farm on the right when it first starts out :)



Before the dismantling of St. Philip's in Germanton, NC, locals documented the drive through Germanton, traveling north and then south on NC Highway 8.

Christmas By Lamplight

Dec. 4 & 6: Christmas By Lamplight at Horne Creek Living Historical Farm in PinnacleTuesday and Thursday
Experience the warmth of a rural turn-of-the-20th-century Christmas. Music and food of the era will be featured. Reservations necessary for this one-and-a-half-hour program.
Fee charged: Adults: $15.00; Children ages 6 - 12: $6.00.
Please note: This program not recommended for children under 6 years of age.
Program Times:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

North Carolina Breakfast Basket

 

NC Breakfast Baskets are now available in the farm store !

 

Each basket includes:

Various Types Of Jams - Dutch Kettle (Hamptonville, NC)

Country Ham - Foothills Country Ham (Jonesville, NC)

Biscuit Mix - House-Autry (Four Oaks, NC)

Peppermint Candy - Piedmont Candy Company (Lexington, NC) 

Handmade Pot Holder - Cricket's Nest (Winston-Salem, NC)

 

 

 

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698