Shelf life
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…
Elderberry syrup is back in stock!
Ohio Elderberry Syrup is back in stock! The 2023 elderberry harvest is largely behind us and we finally have elderberry syrup available again.
It was a strange season - harvest started three weeks later than last year and we had a little lull in the middle of the big harvest days. We're chalking that up to the spring dry spell and weeks of haze stemming from the Canadian wildfires. Now we're in that hectic time where we are finishing up harvest, prepping the field for next year, making syrup …
Violets in Spring
A thousand wild violets dot the lawn, welcoming the early bees. I set the mower deck high and shave the grass above their heads. Mowing so high means I’ll have to cut it again soon, but it’s worth it to let the flowers continue their bloom.
