Today’s surprise chore was adding fencing over the baby chicks. Yesterday we found 4 dead and a Coopers hawk in the barn. It was a pretty big job but we had some fencing that was donated last fall and prefer to prevent a future disaster while allowing the hawks to live their best rodent eating lives.
tiny nest in the viburnum
Pansy seedlings
First seed order of the season
Local goat milk, olive oil, coconut oil, tallow, shea butter, castor oil, Creekside honey, kaolin clay, pink pigment and lilac fragrance. It will be finished curing in 6 weeks.
This morning’s salve trial.
I used calendula infused olive oil, comfrey infused coconut oil, cocoa butter, beeswax, vitamin E oil and lavender and rosemary EO’s
I whipped it as it cooled because I prefer the texture. It doesn’t feel as greasy to me.
After I’ve used it for a few days, I plan to make a larger batch and will have it for sale.
Today I strained the calendula blossoms from the olive oil leaving a beautiful golden oil.
I have some ground comfrey leaves that I harvested & dried in August infusing in coconut oil that will be combined with the calendula oil for a healing salve.
Christmas morning sunrise
Wishing all of our friends and family a beautiful Holiday season!
They make great gifts (or gift yourself). We are happy to make up gift bags with items of your choosing! Let us know what you would like and when you would like to pick it up. We will have it ready for you!
One pound of Creekside honey & a honey soap $16.00
One pound of Creekside honey & a bar of goat milk soap $18.00
* Scroll down for a full list of available soap choices
One pound of Creekside honey, 1 honey soap & 1 Creamy body butter $30.00
Honey gift with Lotion bar, soap and honey bear. $20.0
Salt soak set with honey bear and 2 tea bags. $8.00 Detox or Relax
Creamy Body Butter $14.00
Lavender or Sweet orange Ylang-Ylang
Raw sugar scrub $8.00 Lavender
Facial Oil $24.00
Bee Hive soap with honey scent $3.00
Hand made soaps $5.00 *Details below
Scrubby Soap bags $2.00 each or Free with purchase of 3 regular soap bars
Raw honey from hives on our farm $13.00
Raw Comb Honey $20.00
Yarn and roving from our Suri alpacas
Alpaca socks $13.00-20.00
Gift Bags
Soap details: The majority of our soap is made with fresh/local goatmilk, shea butter, coconut, olive and castor oil, tallow and honey. We have 1 soap that would be considered vegan. Our Allepo soap – made with olive and laurel berry oil (no milk or honey).
Essential Oil soaps include :
Lavender w/oatmeal
Rosemary/lavender/mint w/green tea
Rosemary/Lavender with sea clay
Sweet Orange/Ginger/Patchouli
Lemongrass/Lemon/Lime
Ylang-Ylang/Bergamot w/ marshmallow root
Soaps made with philate free fragrance include:
Cherry Almond
Autumn Fig w/rose clay
Black Raspberry Vanilla
Almond
email: pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
Call 815-467-5259 (leave a message if we don’t answer – we still have farm chores and may be outside)
Send us a message on our FB page
You can also use any of the above to ask questions about any of our products.
They make great gifts (or gift yourself). We are happy to make up gift bags with items of your choosing!
Let us know what you would like and when you would like to pick it up. We will have it ready for you!
Honey gift with Body butter, soap and honey bear. $20.00
Honey gift with Lotion bar, soap and honey bear. $20.0
Salt soak set with honey bear and 2 tea bags. $8.00 Detox or Relax
Honey bear & Beehive/honey soap
$6.00
Lavender/oatmeal soap (2 bars) with scrubby soap bag, Lavender raw sugar scrub & choose either a Lavender Lotion bar or a lavender Creamy Body butter
$33.00
Lotion Bar $14.00
Lavender or Sweet orange/Ginger/ Ylang-Ylang
Creamy Body Butter $14.00
Lavender or Sweet orange Ylang-Ylang
Raw sugar scrub $8.00 Lavender
Facial Oil $24.00
Salt soak $4.00
Relax or Detox
Bee Hive soap with honey scent $3.00
Hand made soaps $5.00 Details below
Scrubby Soap bags $2.00 each or Free with purchase of 3 regular soap bars
Raw honey from hives on our farm $13.00
Raw Comb Honey $20.00
Honey Bears $3.00
Yarn and roving from our Suri alpacas
Alpaca socks $13.00-20.00
Choose a Christmas bag or a natural bag. Let us know what you would like in each gift bag and we will have it ready for you!
Soap details: The majority of our soap is made with fresh/local goatmilk, shea butter, coconut, olive and castor oil, tallow and honey. We have 1 soap that would be considered vegan. Our Allepo soap – made with olive and laurel berry oil (no milk or honey).
Essential Oil soaps include :
Lavender w/oatmeal
Rosemary/lavender/mint w/green tea
Rosemary/Lavender with sea clay
Sweet Orange/Ginger/Patchouli
Lemongrass/Lemon/Lime
Ylang-Ylang/Bergamot w/ marshmallow root
Soaps made with philate free fragrance include:
Cherry Almond
Autumn Fig w/rose clay
Black Raspberry Vanilla
Almond
email: pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
Call 815-467-5259 (leave a message if we don’t answer – we still have farm chores and may be outside)
Send us a message on our FB page
You can also use any of the above to ask questions about any of our products.
Hand knit Suri alpaca Cowell $35.00
Hand Knit Suri alpaca head-band & Finger-less Gloves Set $40.00
We also have great gifts for knitters, crocheters, weavers and spinners!
Suri alpaca yarn
Parabella, Freedom, Chikillia, Bronson
Our yarn comes in a 200 yard skein got $20.00.
All alpaca fiber comes from our small group of Suri alpacas. We send our fiber to small local mills for processing.
Core spun yarn Suri alpaca on cotton core $1.00 per yard
Our combed top roving is 100% Suri fiber from our finest fiber girl – Parabella. It’s unbelievably soft and spins into a wonderful yarn.
Combed top Suri alpaca from Parabella $5.00 per ounce
Contact us with any questions or to make arrangements for purchase & pick-up.
email: pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
call: 815-467-5259
Send us a message on our FB page
They make great gifts (or gift yourself). We are happy to make up gift bags with items of your choosing! Let us know what you would like and when you would like to pick it up. We will have it ready for you!
Here are a couple more Gift Set options:
Lavender/oatmeal goat milk soap, Lavender raw sugar scrub & soap bag $28.00
You can also add a lotion bar stick or Creamy body butter for $14.00 each
Honey bear and beehive/honey soap $6.00
Switch out the Honey bear for a 1 pound jar of our raw honey for a $16.00 set
Honey gift with Body butter, soap and honey bear. $20.00
Honey gift with Lotion bar, soap and honey bear. $20.0
Salt soak set with honey bear and 2 tea bags. $8.00 Detox or Relax
Creamy Body Butter $14.00
Lavender or Sweet orange Ylang-Ylang
Raw sugar scrub $8.00 Lavender
Facial Oil $24.00
Salt soak $4.00
Relax or Detox
Bee Hive soap with honey scent $3.00
Hand made soaps $5.00 Details below
Scrubby Soap bags $2.00 each or Free with purchase of 3 regular soap bars
Raw honey from hives on our farm $13.00
Raw Comb Honey $20.00
Honey Bears $3.00
Yarn and roving from our Suri alpacas
Alpaca socks $13.00-20.00
Gift Bags
Soap details: The majority of our soap is made with fresh/local goatmilk, shea butter, coconut, olive and castor oil, tallow and honey. We have 1 soap that would be considered vegan. Our Allepo soap – made with olive and laurel berry oil (no milk or honey).
Essential Oil soaps include :
Lavender w/oatmeal
Rosemary/lavender/mint w/green tea
Rosemary/Lavender with sea clay
Sweet Orange/Ginger/Patchouli
Lemongrass/Lemon/Lime
Ylang-Ylang/Bergamot w/ marshmallow root
Soaps made with philate free fragrance include:
Cherry Almond
Autumn Fig w/rose clay
Black Raspberry Vanilla
Almond
email: pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
Call 815-467-5259 (leave a message if we don’t answer – we still have farm chores and may be outside)
Send us a message on our FB page
You can also use any of the above to ask questions about any of our products.
They make great gifts (or gift yourself). We are happy to make up gift bags with items of your choosing! Let us know what you would like and when you would like to pick it up. We will have it ready for you!
Honey gift with Body butter, soap and honey bear. $20.00
Honey gift with Lotion bar, soap and honey bear. $20.0
Salt soak set with honey bear and 2 tea bags. $8.00 Detox or Relax
Creamy Body Butter $14.00
Lavender or Sweet orange Ylang-Ylang
Raw sugar scrub $8.00 Lavender
Facial Oil $24.00
Salt soak $4.00
Relax or Detox
Bee Hive soap with honey scent $3.00
Hand made soaps $5.00 Details below
Scrubby Soap bags $2.00 each or Free with purchase of 3 regular soap bars
Raw honey from hives on our farm $13.00
Raw Comb Honey $20.00
Honey Bears $3.00
Yarn and roving from our Suri alpacas
Alpaca socks $13.00-20.00
Gift Bags
Soap details: The majority of our soap is made with fresh/local goatmilk, shea butter, coconut, olive and castor oil, tallow and honey. We have 1 soap that would be considered vegan. Our Allepo soap – made with olive and laurel berry oil (no milk or honey).
Essential Oil soaps include :
Lavender w/oatmeal
Rosemary/lavender/mint w/green tea
Rosemary/Lavender with sea clay
Sweet Orange/Ginger/Patchouli
Lemongrass/Lemon/Lime
Ylang-Ylang/Bergamot w/ marshmallow root
Soaps made with philate free fragrance include:
Cherry Almond
Autumn Fig w/rose clay
Black Raspberry Vanilla
Almond
email: pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
Call 815-467-5259 (leave a message if we don’t answer – we still have farm chores and may be outside)
Send us a message on our FB page
You can also use any of the above to ask questions about any of our products.
We will be set up in the garage with hot cocoa & coffee and lots of great products!
We will have some favorites from last year and a couple of new bath and body products.
Sugar Scrub
A few gift sets already made up
Or you can choose your own products and make a custom gift. We even have some cute Christmas gift bags & lots of hand made goat milk soap.
Honey from our hives – including comb honey
Evergreen arrangements & Scented fire starters
Suri alpaca yarn & roving from our small herd of alpacas. And super soft and warm alpaca socks!
Saturday November 30th
9 am until 2 pm
Today’s featured product is our Facial Oil
It is a blend of high quality oils :
Rosehip seed oil, Jojoba oil, Evening Primrose oil, Pomegranate seed oil, Meadowfoam seed oil & Vitamin E oil.
All chosen for their amazing skin benefits.
A little goes a long way!
$24.00 per bottle
Saturday November 30th
9 am until 2 pm
We have 2 Lotion Bar formulas this year.
Both start with shea butter, coconut, pumpkin seed & Vit E oils plus beeswax from our hives. 100% skin loving butters and oils! We use a twist up tube to make it easy to use and store. $14.00 for a 2 ounce tube.
Formula 1 also contains mango butter and macadamia nut oil with sweet orange/ginger & ylang-ylang EO’s
Formula 2 also contains cocoa butter with lavender EO
Saturday November 30th
9 am until 2 pm
This year we will offer 3 formulas! All 3 are lovely, creamy and filled with skin loving oils and butters! A 4 ounce jar is $14.00
Both formulas contain jojoba and pumpkin seed oil.
Formula 1 also has macadamia nut oil and mango butter with
sweet orange/ginger/ylang-ylang EO’s
Formula 2 has apricot kernel oil & cocoa butter with lavender EO
Formula 3 has apricot kernel oil & shea butter with Raw honeycomb FO and Lemon EO
Pumpkin seed oil is rich in vitamin E, zinc, omega 3- and 6- fatty acids as well as antioxidants, therefore it has tremendous benefits for the skin in terms of retaining moisture, fighting free radicals and maintaining a youthful appearance. The high amounts of zinc and vitamin E also improve skin tone, help wounds heal more rapidly, fight acne and help with skin renewal. Lastly, many of the minerals and vitamins have anti-aging effects as well.
We are 1 week away from our Creekside Holiday Market and busy working on products.
Today’s project is Salt Soak. We will have 2 options – both in a 8 ounce size for $4.00
Both versions have a base of Dead Sea salt, Epsom salt, and baking soda.
Relax Salt Soak also has chamomile powder and lavender essential oil
Detox Salt Soak has rhassoul clay and a mix of lemongrass, rosemary and ginger EO’s
We have been busy making our goat milk soap so it could have it’s “curing time” and be ready for our Creekside Market Day. Now we can concentrate on some of the other products we have planned. We will be bringing back some popular items from last year – Lotion bar sticks, Creamy Body Lotion, Facial oil and salt soak. And, we are planning some new products – Sugar scrub and a clay mask with some awesome botanicals.
Our 2019 honey harvest will be available in a 1 pound jar or in a small honey bear.
These adorable Beehive soaps will be available as part of a Gift Set.
We will also have a few surprises!
Message us on FB
call 815-467-5259
email pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
We still have eggs in the Farmstand cooler – probably for just a few more days. With the shorter days and colder weather, we will soon be only selling from the house by appointment.
The 3.2 inches of rain yesterday put an end to pasture time for the season but the alpacas are enjoying their new hay feeder.
Next Year’s Garlic is ready to go in the ground!
We have a few new varieties to go along with our old favorites
Summer will be coming to an end today with overnight temps expected to be 32 degrees!
So, we have picked all of the peppers and the last of the tomatoes.
In addition to the regular packaging, there is a 3 pound bag of red Lunchbox peppers ($5.00) and a 5 pound bag of bell peppers ($8.00) in the cooler. Peppers are easy to freeze and so wonderful on a cold winter day!
We also have butternut squash, baking pumpkins, white onions and eggs.
We picked lots of lovely sweet peppers!
Peppers are super easy to freeze and it is so nice to have them available on a cold winter day!
Bell Peppers
Lunchbox Peppers
Mixed Sweet Peppers
Butternut Squash
And HONEY!
Raw honey from hives on our farm
Comb Honey
Sweet peppers are in the cooler along with some jalapeno peppers, red okra, the last flower bouquets of the season and eggs.
Butternut and spaghetti squash, onions, baking pumpkins and the last of the tomatoes are in the stand.
Contact us ahead of coming out for honey. We do not stock that in the stand.
815-467-5259
pam@creeksidenaturalfarm.com
Message on our FB page
We were able to get flowers and herbs cut before the rain started yesterday. This could be the last week for flowers as the zinnias really suffer from the extreme rain.
$7.00 for flowers
$4.00 for herbs
The water has gone down from the overnight high, but you can see it was over the bank at some point
Peppers had water running through
Tomatoes had running water and now have standing water. They had finally started to recover from the spring floods.
The good news is that the bridge and bee hives are still in place! And I cut some flowers and herbs yesterday so we will have bouquets in the cooler on this dreary day.
We have sweet red Lunch Box peppers available in a 3 pound bag for $6.00
2 bags available in the Farmstand cooler
They are super easy to freeze (just cut the tops off and throw them in a freezer bag) for your winter eating pleasure. My favorite winter use is in omelets.
Thawed Lunch Box peppers last winter.
Fresh mason jar bouquets are in the cooler for $7.00 each
We also have a nice selection of heirloom, cherry and roma tomatoes – $2.50 per pint
Yellow squash, various sweet and bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, garlic and Fresh salsa kits. The kit has everything you need to make a batch of fresh salsa – including our recipe!
Pork
Tage Shumway raises a Berkshire/Tamworth cross on a beautiful wooded (oak & hickory) pasture. The pigs are born on his farm in a natural setting (no farrowing crates). In addition to the pasture forage, he supplements with certified organic feed from a local mill.
He sells either a half or whole hog and will be taking some in for processing next week.
$2.00 per pound hanging weight and you pay processing.
You can contact him at
shumwaytage@gmail.com
Beef , Chicken & Lamb
Jim and Ruth Draper at Graze-N-Grow Farm raise Belted Galloway cattle and Kathadin sheep on full pasture. They are also raising some Freedom Ranger chickens this year. The chickens are supplemented with certified organic feed from a local mill and also have pasture for foraging.
Choose the tomatoes you like to fill a pint container (or 2) for $2.50
We have fresh flowers in the Farmstand cooler. They arranged in a jar and ready to gift or brighten your table. There are tags available for you to add to the jar for gifting.
Just $7.00 each!
We also have fresh salsa kits, tomatoes, bell peppers, sweet peppers, jalapeno peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, beans, garlic and okra.
