Yields 2 dozen cookies Equipment Parchment paper Cookie Sheets Electric Mixer Ingredients 2 1/4 cups emmer flour 1 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoons salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, soften 3/4 cups granulated sugar 3/4 cups brown sugar 1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 2 large eggs 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips Parchment paper for cookie sheets… Continued
Good tidings to you this holiday season. Thank you for your continued support of our our family farm business. As you have heard many times before, we could not do this without you! We wish you a warm holiday season filled with great local foods, family and friendship. We will leave you with this sweet solstice… Continued
And the lovely November rains soon turned to snow as Thanksgiving neared. Enough snow to cover the tan grasses and open up the ski trails. Early enough so that I wasn’t too far off my prediction of an “early winter”. December has given us even more precipitation during the first half with a week-long storm… Continued
Holiday Open Houses & Granary Tours We always enjoy our tours, it gives us opportunity to connect with the people that support our business. We have a couple of open house and granary tours scheduled in the next month: Saturday November 28th 10-12 pm *Tour starts at 10 and lasts 1/2 hour Saturday December 5th… Continued
by Ashley Lodato When Heather Ostenson won the Douglas County Wheat Wives’ Junior Baking Queen award at the county fair as a 10-year-old, little did she suspect that one day she would be the owner and chief baker at her own bakery. It’s not surprising, however, that despite a first career in industrial design and civil… Continued
Ahh… If I could start every frosty November morning walking the dogs over this deep, bare, fresh land, complaints of any sort would be hard to come by. And so it was this dandy of a morning, with the peaks winter-white, the bunch grasses autumn tan, the sky almost fake blue cut only by a… Continued
This autumn has been lullaby- mellow with endless mild days, coolish nights, even a little bit of rain. Not the full days of rain we might hope for, but enough to freshen the air and soil. One could easily forget that we are entering the 4th week of October as I write this and still,… Continued
Thank you to all who joined us for our 10 year anniversary celebration and fundraiser for Twisp Works on September 6th. We are thankful and always encouraged by the support you have given us over the years. We collectively raised over $1800.00 for Twisp Work’s Methow Made program on the 6th! I would like to… Continued
by Ashley Lodato On a crisp Labor Day evening that foretold autumn, 300 guests gathered at TwispWorks to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Bluebird Grain Farms. With catering provided by Cameron Green and guest chef John Sundstrom of Seattle’s lark restaurant, the paella dinner was as stunning a visual anchor for the event as it was a… Continued
A welcome change of weather has blessed us here in eastern Washington and with this change, most of the nearby fires have either abated or been successfully contained. Most importantly, there has been no further loss of human life. We are grateful to the hard-working fire crews, and most grateful to Mother Nature. Although we’ve… Continued