Bacon

My daughter picked out her pig for 4-H last week. He has a roommate to bunk with this year and seems to be enjoying the company. For the next 4 months Anna and her friend from school (who can't keep a pig in her own townie backyard) will feed, brush, clean, walk and train these little Yorkshire barrows to Grand Champion status. In July they will show them at the Santa Barbara County Fair and hopefully come home with a ribbon or two and some memories and sensibility about where their food comes from that they didn't have before.

Friday and Clover caught in a late afternoon cuddle.         Photo by Erin Pata

Speaking of bacon... join us at the Bacon & Barrels event this summer in nearby Los Olivos. We will have a table there full of Jalama Road Family Farmstand goods. Tickets go on sale today and we've heard they may sell out! www.baconandbarrels.com

Going Ghetto

Join us this Sunday, December 2, from 3 to 6 pm in the Lompoc Wine Ghetto where our friends and neighbors at the Jalama Wines Tasting Room, along with some other tasting rooms, will be open for a special holiday winter wine experience. The Jalama Road Family Farmstand will have a table full of our larder goods for sale, such as our honey, beans, jams, pickles and gift baskets. We will also have some Butterbean Studios letterpressed cards, candles and handmade purses. Hope to see you there!

 

Christmas from the stand ...in a box.

Looking for something they surely don't have yet? Our homemade, homegrown, local items from the Jalama Road Family Farmstand is a great gift for a friend, teacher, boss, neighbor or even for yourself.

We have figured out how to pack up this pretty little combination of goods from our stand into an efficient little box and ship it directly to your friends and family anywhere in the United States this year. There is a gift card included on which we can write a message for you if you'd like. We can also skip the shipping and set up a pick up time if you are local.

Your package will be delivered priority mail and will include one recycled cotton canvas tote, one pound of christmas limas, one jar of homemade jam, one jar of bread and butter pickles,

one pound of raw honey and one letterpressed note card with your personal message on it.  (Just send us a note with the personal message you would like to include and I will use my best handwriting I swear!). And finally, the box also includes a handful of walnuts or chestnuts that also double as a great packaging material.

The price is $57 including shipping.
Click here to order!
 

And if we don't see you this winter please have a Merry Christmas!!

Closed for Winter!

Hi farmstand friends, just checking in. 

The signs are down and the stand is buttoned up for winter.

We still have irrigation to pull and ground to till, but for now we have turkey and pie on the brain.

Our blog posts will slow a bit but we promise to keep in touch from time to time.

Hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving,

The Jalama Road Family Farmstand

Thanks For A Great Third Year!

Thanks to all who came out to visit the stand on our closing day. We shared a few hugs, lots of laughs and even saw some little ghosts and goblins running around.

AND... Congratulations to the McGraw family who won our 49 lb. banana squash!!!