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FF Brisket Green Chile

December 1, 2025 No Comments

INGREDIENTS 1/4 cup olive oil 4 pounds leftover smoked brisket cut into bite sized pieces 1 cup chopped onion 4 cloves minced garlic 1 jalapeño or other green or red chili pepper 1 – 2 tbsp ground cumin (to taste) 1/2 cup flour or masa 4 cups of roasted peeled and chopped fresh green chiles (pick your heat) 2 quarts of peeled roasted and chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp salt (to taste) 1 tsp sugar 2 tsp coarse ground black pepper 2 tbsp mexican

We Have The Meat!

November 12, 2025 No Comments

Welcome back to the Farscape Farm blog. This November, we have managed to stay incrediblybusy despite our produce being tapped out. Two weeks ago, we took all of our young livestockdes?ned for the butcher, to the slaughterhouse for processing. I really wish there was a goodeuphemism for slaughterhouse, but I believe that it is important to acknowledge what we aredoing. In any case, the processing takes a couple of weeks.

FF Sauteed Kale with Crasins and Pecans

November 10, 2025 No Comments

INGREDIENTS Ingredients: 2 pounds of fresh dino kale 2 handfuls of chopped pecans 2 handfuls of crasins extra virgin olive oil salt and pepper hot honey Juice of 1/2 large lemon Directions: Strip kale leaves from stems, blanche for 3 minutes and drain. Heat olive oil in large sauté pan. Toss in pecans and sauté for a couple of minutes until they give a nice aroma. Toss in crasins and

Market Day

October 29, 2025 No Comments

Yesterday was a really big day for us at Farscape Farm. It was “market day.” Which is just a nice way of saying that we took half our livestock for shechita or slaughter. This might not be a topic which will interest readers; however, it is part of life on a farm that raises animals from meat. Let’s start at the very beginning of the process. We have a few

Some of this and some of that

October 20, 2025 No Comments

The past few weeks have been a blur. The Jewish holidays in the fall basically all fell out inOctober. So, I haven’t had the time to bring you all up to date. And given how busy the holidayschedule is, we have been treading water on Farscape Farm. Now that does not mean weweren’t getting things done. It’s just that the holiday schedule made it more difficult to do allthe things

A Tough Week for America

September 17, 2025 No Comments

I had hoped to talk about getting ready to take animals to market. Or the fun of trying to separate a bunch of very horny bucklings out from our girls. Or we could have discussed potentially taking on a small herd of wool/meat sheep mixes for an old friend from Baltimore. But instead, I have to talk about what happened last week in my country, the fall out, the horribleness

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