The weather has been cooling and we’ve been steaming up the kitchen with vats of elderberry syrup. I really enjoy this kitchen work - the alchemy of transforming basic ingredients into a product that people can take off the shelf and easily use. 

Speaking of shelves, we’ve been working to get our Ohio Elderberry Farm + Kitchen Syrup on more store shelves.  

We are super happy to announce that Dorothy Lane Market is now carrying our syrup in their stores!  

Dorothy Lane Market (DLM) is the pre…

Farms are all about place, right? 

We are located in the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio. We’re lucky to live in a very beautiful area with a lot of natural richness. Check out the Arc of Appalachia to learn more.  They do amazing work and several of their preserves are within a few miles of us.

Our focus is on the American elderberry, a native plant in this region. We have about 450 elderberry plants in the ground right now and make Elderberry syrup and Elderflower syrup from what we grow.…

In October we did a production run of elderberry syrup in a larger commercial kitchen. This kitchen sported a huge (100 gallons!) kettle that allowed us to produce 4x more than we normally produce in a day. The automatic filler was great too. We typically fill the bottles by hand, a process that requires a lot of concentration around hot liquid. Children aged 3-6 are introduced to the practice of pouring liquids in the Montessori curriculum, and maybe if I’d attended a Montessori preschool I wou…