It was a cool and breezy spring morning when we stopped in to visit the kitchen at Wild Folk Bakery. Macy from Wild Folk had just pulled a fresh batch of croissants out of the oven and the aroma was drifting outdoors. There is no better smell than freshly baked breads!
Raising Food to a Higher Standard. That is the mission statement that Josiah and Shyanna from Every Living Thing Farm live by. After watching a moving food documentary several years ago, the couple began to contemplate the meat they consumed and the quality of life the animals endured.
Fifteen years and two kids ago, Cortney and Dewain Riddle had a problem: their newly-purchased property was so overrun with grasshoppers that their window screens were falling apart. That's where the chickens came in. …
Leslie Petri and her husband, Buddie Brooks, never considered themselves unhealthy or overweight, but when a doctor called Brooks “obese”, it was time for an overhaul.
Selecting animals for the best traits, breeding, pasturing, and feeding until the mix is just right to ensure you a great local product from their family farm properties right here in SW Missouri.
Raising Food to a Higher Standard. That is the mission statement that Josiah and Shyanna from Every Living Thing Farm live by. After watching a moving food documentary several years ago, the couple began to contemplate the meat they consumed and the quality of life the animals endured.
“I have a vision of retiring from education in five more school years and being fully prepared to continue with the growing. I want to lean towards flowers. But I have to find the people that need them.”
"Every plant has a purpose." This explains his riotous garden, an ambitious amalgam of straw bale beds, leafy greens beautiful enough to display in wedding bouquets, self-seeding garlic, walking onions, and a plush carpet of native plants -- say, milkweed and tiny confederate violets, just to name a few -- too precious to remove.
It was a cool and breezy spring morning when we stopped in to visit the kitchen at Wild Folk Bakery. Macy from Wild Folk had just pulled a fresh batch of croissants out of the oven and the aroma was drifting outdoors. There is no better smell than freshly baked breads!
Selecting animals for the best traits, breeding, pasturing, and feeding until the mix is just right to ensure you a great local product from their family farm properties right here in SW Missouri.
Raising Food to a Higher Standard. That is the mission statement that Josiah and Shyanna from Every Living Thing Farm live by. After watching a moving food documentary several years ago, the couple began to contemplate the meat they consumed and the quality of life the animals endured.
“I see people going for the showy, glitzy look instead of the real flavors and it just disappoints me. Pie is part of who we are. There’s a tradition here of flavor and richness. You need to go back to that. Eat real food.”
