No-Knead Crusty Whole Grain Emmer Loaf Adapted from Jim Lahey’s My Bread Spring is a great time to bake bread- nothing beats fresh bread and hearty soup for dinner after a chilly day in the fields or woods. This Whole Grain Emmer Loaf is delicious and easy if you plan ahead! Yields: 1 loaf Ingredients… Continued
Mother Nature has surprised us once again, switching gears just when she looked to be leaning toward an earlier spring. During the first week of this month a true Chinook wind blew through our valley for most of a full week, the snow sunk as temperatures soared and it sure seemed winter had lost its… Continued
by Ashley Lodato Bluebird Grain Farms staff writer For Mazama Store owner Missy LeDuc, it’s all about keeping things fresh and lively. From the produce to the pastries to the housewares to even the employees themselves, everything and everyone in the iconic Mazama cafe and general store seems to be infused with an internal bit… Continued
Recipe Compliments of Washington Food Artisans: Farm Stories And Chef Recipes When Dana Cree was the pastry chef at Poppy’s restaurant in Seattle, she used rye flour from Bluebird Grain Farms to make these soft and chewy bite-size pretzels. Plump, golden, and savory, they have just enough rye and caraway to set them apart… Continued
We begin a New Year here at Bluebird with new snow, some rain, a big thaw, freeze, new snow…just like January! Juncos and chickadees are thick at the feeder and just yesterday the waxwings returned to our elderberry bush. We’ve a pair of bald eagles hanging around; various owls and I watched with admiration as… Continued
2018 is trucking along here at Bluebird Grain Farms- we are thankful for a great year of farming in 2017 and are already thinking ahead to working the soil this coming spring! In the meantime, we are busy cleaning and packaging grains here at the granary and also taking some time to get outside and… Continued
Copyright Bluebird Grain Farms. This recipe is on the side panel of our Potlatch Pilaf 1 lb. packaging This is one of our all-time favorite Bluebird recipes. It is very easy to prepare. For a hearty winter meal, serve as a side with fish, chicken, or grilled tempeh. Yields 4-6 servings Ingredients: 2 Tb olive… Continued
Writing this morning on the first full day of winter and doing so with joy. On queue, we received a bit more snow here in the Methow and the temperature has dropped. A wafer-thin moon hung to the south as the stars sharpened in the cold, quiet sky above our neighbor’s solstice spiral where we… Continued
by Ashley Lodato, Bluebird Grain Farms staff writer photos courtesy of Michael Molitor & Ecliptic Brewing It’s fitting that Bluebird is featuring Ecliptic Brewing on this first full day of winter. The Portland brewery and pub unites Oregon craft brewing icon John Harris’s two passions: brewing and astronomy. The centerpiece of the pub is a massive… Continued
Recipe by Sheah Ellis Sheah’s pumpkin bread is always a huge hit at our annual open house in early December. We received a lot of requests for this recipe. Ingredients: 15 oz pumpkin puree (1 can puree) 2 eggs 1/2 cup melted butter 1 1/4 cup coconut sugar or white granulated sugar 1 1/4 tsp… Continued