Around the Kitchen at Lost Creek Soaps

Our apple trees are loaded with apples this year.  We have had to begin removing apples in hopes that the weight from them all won't break the branches of our trees. 

  

 So we have been enjoying apples already.  Some are a bit under ripe, but many taste really good.

Oh, Tomatoes!  I love them!  We are haling in a bunch of them right now, and I am gobbling up as many as I can.

The Surprise Lilly's are in bloom.  They smell so amazing, and they certainly are beautiful.

Finally, we got to making some cultured butter.  It is so fantastic.  Everyone should make some.  The culture makes it the best homemade butter I have ever had.  It smells so sweet, and tastes so amazing!

Here it is in the butter churn, ready to be washed and salted.  The girls made cornbread from the buttermilk today.  It is wonderful!  Can you tell I love butter, and eating?  :)

Lost Creek Soaps will soon be offering a liquid hand soap.  It has been cooked and gelled and now it must be left to sequester for a week, before being made into liquid soap.  I love the brown color of our luxury body wash, and shampoo.  I think the brown makes it look luxurious, but some wanted a more white soap.  So I made some.  This liquid hand soap will be part of our classic everyday collection.

I love the new Lemongrass Deodorant.  It smells so fresh, and the baking soda keeps me odor free.  Although, I do smell like lemongrass, and one of my friends kept telling how much she loved how I smelled.  It was my deodorant.  Lol.



























We have been hard at work on a new logo (and packaging, and labeling).  Here it is in black and white since 3 of our printers had problems this last week, and we could only get one to partially work.  It would only print in black and white, and we needed labels right away.  What do you think of black and white labels?


~Suzanne

Lost Creek Soaps~ Logan Moving The Highlands

We started doing rotational grazing with our animals.  We have Scottish Highland Cattle, and Scottish Highland crosses mixed with dairy breeds for milking.  The crosses are Jersey/Highland Crosses, or some other dairy breed/Jersey/Highland crosses.

We adore our Scottish Highland Cattle.  I mean, I love them!  They are beautiful, majestic animals, and oh so hardy!!!  When we first moved to the country, and started accumulating a plethora of animals, we learned very quickly how important HARDY animals are.  They taste amazing too.  

We knew we wanted to raise our own food, as naturally as possible.  We learned that cattle were made to eat grass.  That what we really needed to be was grass farmers.  Farmers that grew amazing grass, and had amazing diversity of other species of plants.  We learned that cattle can heal the land, not just destroy it.  Wow!  We wanted in on that.

I love watching these amazing animals.  If you love watching animals, and listening to the sounds of summer.  I have two videos of Logan moving the fence to let the cattle into their new paddock with fresh grass for them to eat.
 

I decided not to talk during the videos.  It is so peaceful just to listen to the sounds of the country.

Our bull had been in a different pen.  You can hear him start to beller as he moves closer to his cows.  He is a wonderful bull.  So calm and gentle.  He has been such a great bull for us.

After I finished filming, Logan and I called him to the gate to let him in with "his" girls. :)  "Here Blackie".  "Here Blackie".  "Come here boy".  And slowly he started walking to the gate.  With a little bit of encouragement he was back in with his girls again.

~Suzanne

Around The Farm at Lost Creek Soaps! ~New Baby Girl Born!

We had a new baby heifer calf born on Friday morning.   Lukas sent me a message that said, "It's a Girl", with a picture of her and her mom attached to it. 

Oh, how I love those messages.  We all had to go out and see the new baby.  Then her beautiful mom, Rose, a Jersey heifer/cow had to be brought to the barn for milking.

What a cutie she is!  Half Jersey/Half Scottish Highland.  We all ahhhed over her.  I love God's beautiful creatures that we get to enjoy.

Many of our other animals gathered around to meet the new little one as well.  Logan's horse, Stretch, would try to get in real close, and then go galloping and kicking away.

That is how excited I was about her birth too!


~Suzanne

~Packaging Luxury Soap~

We wrap our Luxury soaps with a biodegradable perforated shrink wrap.  Our goat milk soaps need to have the wrap with perforations so they can breath.  Logan has been working hard at getting them all wrapped up and ready to be shipped out.

Luxury Citrus Charcoal, and Luxury Milk Chocolate Peppermint packaged and ready to be sold.  Some of these Luxury soaps are headed over to Skyview Farm and Creamery  tonight.


~Suzanne