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Institute

“People who love to eat are always the best people.”
-Julia Child

Classes and Workshops to help you Bring the Farm Home to Your Table, Your Family, Your Community

Stepping into the world of farm to table eating can be daunting – it is not just about following a recipe, it’s a whole new way of conceptualizing the world around us, of participating in and fostering a vibrant local community, of tasting and experiencing the changing seasons in our food, and understanding how what we eat influences the world around us and shapes us in turn.

Let’s talk about food – where it comes from, how we grow it, how we process it and preserve it, how we change its flavors, and how it nourishes, entertains, and unites us.

Belvedere Farms Institute

The Institute is currently housed in the kitchen of our 1908 farmhouse where we offer classes on all facets of home cooking, canning and preserving, gardening, homestead skills, farm to fork meal planning, animal husbandry, home butchering, and more.

We’ve worked so hard and made so many mistakes in our farm to fork adventures and we want to share that with you! Perhaps the most important lesson of all is that you don’t have to have a farm to incorporate timeless values into your modern life.

Some of those principles include: use it up (no waste), eat seasonally (what’s available is always best), eat together (food has always been a way of forging community), and save for a rainy day (garden produce preserved for winter eating are a burst of joy).

The Home Baker

Classic French Bread

Family Favorite Breads: Honey Oat, Whole Wheat, Enriched

Fresh Homemade Pasta: mixing, shaping, and cooking with

Preserving The Harvest

Fresh & Canned Salsas: classic tomato, salsa verde, peach lime salsa

Traditional Jams (no pectin added): strawberry, peach, raspberry

Tomatoes: salsa, tomato sauce, roasted tomato sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, tomato jam

Home Dairy

Fresh Mozzarella: the stretchiest, tastiest, freshest mozzarella you’ve ever had. Learn all the skills you’ll need to get beautiful homemade mozzarella every single time (these techniques work with both raw and pasteurized milk)

Farmer’s Cheese: Simple and delicious. This soft spreadable cheese is the perfect snack smeared on apples and drizzled with honey or spooned onto crackers with a dollop of pepper or tomato jam

What To Do With Raw Milk: The possibilities are endless, but we’ll start with farmer’s cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, junket, clabber, and cottage cheese

Farm to Fork Meals

These classes focus on making every ingredient from scratch with ingredients grown right here on the farm – breads, meats, condiments, vegetables.

The Reuben Sandwich (sourdough rye bread, home-cured pastrami, russian dressing, sauerkraut)

Pork Tacos (homemade tortillas, marinated smoked pulled pork, salsa verde, fresh garden slaw)

Sicilian-Style Pizza (pizza dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella made with farm-fresh milk, home-cured salame)

Gnocchi (gnocchi pasta, cream sauce, fresh vegetables & herbs)

Stuffed Ravioli (pasta dough: making, shaping, and stuffing, ricotta made with farm-fresh milk, herbs, red sauce)

Spaghetti & Meatballs (pasta dough: making, shaping, and cooking, tomato sauce, meatballs with farm-fresh pork and grass-fed beef, parmigiano cheese made with farm-fresh milk)

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Hey there friends! Long time, no see eh? . Popping Hey there friends!
Long time, no see eh?
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Popping in to let you know I’ll be posting over at @belvedere.farms from now on.
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Same farm, same milk cow / farming / homesteading / canning & preserving / free-range kids capers & misadventures kinda stuff, but a whole new chapter.
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Sneak peek: if you’ve been around for awhile, you’ll know Maude (our milk cow Sandy’s first calf). She’s a brand new momma herself!
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She and I are learning together how to train a milk cow from scratch. It’s an adventure, to be sure!
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Come on over to @belvedere.farms and follow along.
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- Raelene
Wow. Just wow. . This is how I feel every time I l Wow. Just wow.
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This is how I feel every time I look at the pantry shelves, filling slowly but surely, bit by bit.
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Summer’s bounty + hard work (and plenty of hot sweaty days in the kitchen) means my family will eat like kings all winter long.
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It’s such a blessing to know these skills and get to pass them along.
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Sign up for my newsletter (link in bio) so you know when the next homesteading/self-sufficiency class is happening here at Belvedere Farms and you too can start filling those pantry shelves with goodness.
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#homestead #preservingtheharvest #canning #cannedpeaches #canningseason #selfsufficiency #homemadefood #homesteadmama
“She is little, but she is fierce.” Don’t pu “She is little, but she is fierce.”
Don’t put out that fire.
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#farmraisedkids #farmher #farmgirl #ican #homesteadmama
Can I hear an AMEN? Just tell me one thing: Team L Can I hear an AMEN?
Just tell me one thing: Team Lake or Team Ocean?
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Me? Lake. All the way. Nothing in the lake wants to kill me. 😱
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#gooutside #wildandfreechildren #lakeday #summertime #outdoorkids
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh cut hay. There’s nothing like the smell of fresh cut hay.
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#hayingseason #freshhay #hay #farmlife #summeronthefarm #hayfield #ohiofarm
Just like that, canning season has officially begu Just like that, canning season has officially begun.
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I drove down to the vet’s to pick up meds for a sick heifer and since it takes me right through Amish country, I couldn’t resist stopping at a farm just off the road to pick up 10 quarts of small but luscious berries (the small ones are sweetest, I think).
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Harvested rhubarb from the garden and a couple hours later : strawberry rhubarb jam.
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When you’re filling shelves for the winter, every little bit counts.
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Are you making jam this year? What’s your favorite fruit to use for jam? I loooove apricot jam, but have a hard time finding local apricots here in Ohio. If you know of a source - spill the beans!🤣
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#canningseason #strawberryjam #homesteadmama #homesteadskills #oldfashionedonpurpose #preservingtheharvest
It may seem like a small thing, but it always make It may seem like a small thing, but it always makes my heart happy to look out the window and see the cows grazing in the pasture.
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It took a lot of work to get here, and takes a lot of work to stay here, but working hard for something you love isn’t a burden. Instead it builds confidence, self-respect, resilience, and stamina.
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Go, friends. Work your tails off at work worth doing. And stop every now and again to take stock of all you’ve accomplished and all you’ve learned. It’ll blow your socks off and give you the gumption to do the next hard and worthwhile thing.
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#iamyourfarmer #milkcow #grassfed #rawmilk #farmlife #lifeouthere #hardworkpaysoffs #ohiofarm
Every farm needs a barn cat. We’ve noticed a hug Every farm needs a barn cat. We’ve noticed a huge difference between the years we’ve had barn cuts and the years we haven’t. They’re essential.
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And yet, I’m pretty sure my kids all think we keep barn cats for the kittens.
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There’s a new litter every spring and so far we’ve always been able to give enough away to keep from being overrun. Their momma, Scout, is a phenomenal mouser (and catches birds and squirrels and chipmunks too) and earns her keep many times over.
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So much so that when she decides to give birth, she finds a spot in the basement and we let her come and go as she pleases while the kittens are teeny. That in itself is a testament to her place on the farm.
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Are you team barn cat? How many do you have?
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#barncat #kittens #kidsandkittens #farmraisedkid #farmkid #homesteadkids
Eleven brand spankin’ new piglets born on the fa Eleven brand spankin’ new piglets born on the farm yesterday afternoon/evening.
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It never gets old this farming thing. There’s always something to work on, look forward to, get better at, learn from, grow into, and try again.
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I’m here for it and doing my darndest.
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#farmlifebestlife #babypigs #piglets #iamyourfarmer #supportlocalfarmers #berkshirepigs #farmher
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