One Small Step for Family Farming, One Giant Step for Little Seed Farm

Sprout Creek Farm, Cheese Curds, Little Seed FarmSprout Creek Farm Cheese Curds - Photo by Sprout Creek's Georgie Blaeser
Big news on the Little Seed Farm front! Sweetbreads recently accepted an apprenticeship role at Sprout Creek Farm near Poughkeepsie, NY. We’ll be packing up and moving out at the end of November and she’ll be working on the farm for approximately 6 months. As we posted about previously, Sprout Creek operates a highly diversified farm (dairy, meat chickens, eggs, pork, lamb, goat, turkeys, etc), but really specializes in cheese. 

On our first Farm Hop to Sprout Creek we had a long heart-to-heart with Margo Morris, the founder. The entire time we were chatting I was thinking to myself
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Farm Hopping: Milking and Cheesemaking at Sprout Creek Farm

In the latest installment of Farm Hopping, Scrapple and Sweetbreads go to Sprout Creek Farm! Twice!

Sprout Creek Farm, Little Seed Farm, Barn, To Be A FarmerSprout Creek Farm - Photo by Sprout Creek's Georgie Blaeser Sprout Creek Farm is a highly diversified farm with farm enterprises including dairy cows, sheep, pigs, meat & laying chickens, turkeys, an on-farm retail market and more. The farm is structured as a non-profit and is operated by the Society of the Sacred Heart. Sprout is most well-known for its cheese and youth summer camp. The farm produces 15 varieties of cheese from approximately 400,000 pounds of milk from herds of ~40 cows and ~65 goats. As if Sprout’s excellent cheese wasn’t enough of a highlight, the farm also offers kids the opportunity to spend the summer on the farm participating in all aspects of farming. Gardening, milking, animal husbandry, you name it! The staff’s ability to teach 10 yrs olds about farming turned out to be perfect for getting us up to speed!
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FASHION + FINANCE = FARMING ?

 
We're living in Brooklyn and working in our "dream" occupations in Manhattan, where's the pot of gold?
 
We came to New York City to fulfill childhood goals that were based on high-paying jobs and glamorous lifestyles. The keys to a happy life were well determined and we could achieve them if we tried. Well, here we are - goal achieved!  Or not.  Luckily we've got the love part down, but the rest of it, not so much. 
 
Something happens when you meet the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with, or at least it did with us. We realized that our jobs in fashion and finance just weren't doing it for us. We needed to find a purpose, a new goal - one we could believe in and achieve together.  
 
So, we began our search to find a mutual passion that would allow us to share our days together, hopefully achieving something great and inspiring others along the way.
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