Puppy for Sale!

April 17, 2013

Icelandic Sheep Dogs! 1 puppy left for sale. We have one wonderful, adorable male left to go to a good home. He will be ready the first week of May. He is a purebred Icelandic Sheep Dog but not registered. I am asking $700. This is a very unique breed. They make amazing working dogs [...]

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Woodstock Granola Biscotti with Dark Chocolate and Vanilla Bean Pudding with Salted Bourbon Caramel

April 15, 2013

We have a delicious dessert duo for you! Woodstock Granola Biscotti with Dark Chocolate and Vanilla Bean Pudding with Fat Toad Farm Salted Bourbon Caramel. Enjoy! Vanilla Bean Pudding with Salted Bourbon Caramel Sauce Featuring Fat Toad Farm of Brookfield, Vermont. Ingredients: 3 T. cornstarch 4 T. sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 2 c. whole milk [...]

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Upside-down Orange Caramel Pecan French Toast Bake

April 11, 2013

Say WHAT??!!  Check out this incredible looking recipe from Ambitious Kitchen. I will be making this recipe (with our goat’s milk caramel, of course) for breakfast Sunday.  I can guarantee it won’t look as pretty, but I’m hoping this work of culinary art justice at least – plus some extra cajeta goodness.  I’ll report back.

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In Colchester, New American Farmers Raise Meat for the Refugee Community

April 9, 2013

Great 7 Days Article by Kathryn Flagg last week  about our friend Chuda (taught us how to make the best goat curry on the planet) and the Vermont Goat Collaborative  - a new initiative we are thrilled to support!    (Nice quotes farmer Steve!) http://www.7dvt.com/2013colchester-new-american-farmers-raise-meat-refugee-community.  

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Baby Goat Dance Party

April 5, 2013

They just can’t get enough of Katy Perry.  Rock on, babies.  Rock on. http://youtu.be/srLuZ5LzvS0  

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Where the Boys Are

April 3, 2013

Farmer Steve’s blog: April 1, 2013 One of the least known challenges of goat dairying is that of finding homes for the +-110 goat kids that our 55 adult does deliver each spring as they begin a new season of milk production. [No kids, no milk; no milk, no caramel —, so it’s a critical phase of [...]

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5 Lessons I Have Learned Moving Back to Fat Toad Farm

March 28, 2013

By Boomerang Fat Toad Farm Intern Turned Employee, Christine Porcaro Run (don’t walk) when you are late Caramel, unfortunately, does not make itself. Yesterday, I had made the unwise decision to ignore  my alarm leaving me with only 5 minutes to get ready and 5 min to get to the farm, so I literally had [...]

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Fabulous Fab.com

March 26, 2013

Check out our Goat’s Milk Caramel sale running on Fab.com this week!               Hurry up!  Our caramel is going fast.  …according to Fab.com AND to the teetering stacks and stacks and stacks of boxes ready to ship to lucky fab.com customers.

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Knowing What You Don’t Know

March 20, 2013

By Fat Toad Farmer and caramel stirrer extraordinaire, Judith Irving If you ever want to really know what you don’t know, hang around by yourself in a goat barn with a bunch of does and kids for a half day. Those animals have their own ways of communicating, most of which we don’t even notice or [...]

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Babies are the same….

March 13, 2013

By FTF Farmer Calley Hastings Whether they are goat kids or puppies or humans. Here at FTF we are surrounded by all three. Learnings from this season include: Crying means they need something. Usually it means they are hungry. Fat little stomachs are a really good thing. Bouncing around and moving your body are all signs of good [...]

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