Balsamic Roasted Vegetable Sauce/Spread

This recipe is flexible, simple, vegan, and gluten-free! Ingredients 4-16 cups vegetables, a combination of any of the following: carrots summer squash winter squash sweet peppers eggplant onions garlic olive oil and balsamic vinegar (1 T. of each for every 4 cups of veggies) sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste fresh herbs of […]

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Mom’s Tomato Sauce

The amounts are whatever amount you have, and whatever amount you think tastes good. Taste as you go and it will be delicious! Make a big batch and freeze it for summer goodness all winter long. 🙂 Ingredients onion carrots cherry tomatoes (optional) red wine, if you have it garlic tomato paste lots of medium-large […]

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Ginger & Honey Glazed Carrots

Ingredients 2 T. coconut oil (or butter) 1 T. finely chopped fresh ginger 1-2 T. honey (to taste) 4 large or 8 small carrots, chopped however you want 1/4 c. water salt and pepper to taste Directions Melt the coconut oil in a small saucepan. Add the ginger and honey and stir. Add the carrots […]

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Roasted Tomato Salsa

Ingredients A few large tomatoes, or several small tomatoes, cut into wedges or chunks one small onion, quartered olive oil sea salt and freshly ground pepper 7 cloves garlic, peeled 2 small or 1 large sweet pepper 1 hot pepper, seeded a handful cilantro, chopped lemon or lime juice, to taste Directions Preheat oven to […]

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Eighth Day’s Dinner at the Farm

Last Friday night, about 120 people gathered to support Eighth Day Farm at our Dinner at the Farm event. We had great weather, amazing food and an incredible time. First, thank you to all of our volunteers that helped make the evening possible! Between dinner tickets, in-kind donations and the silent auction, we raised a […]

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End-of-Summer Tomato Soup

Makes a big Dutch oven full: enough to eat, share, and have leftovers! (We like to freeze the leftovers for a summery treat in the dead of winter.) Ingredients 4 T. butter a splash of olive oil 2-3 cloves garlic 1 onion (medium or large), diced 3 carrots, finely diced ¼ c. flour sea salt […]

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Sustainable Food Petition: American Public Media: Support Organics, Not Monstanto

Each of us at Eighth Day Farm feel consumers should have unbiased access to education about food production. Recently, NPR aired a program that was one-sided and largely funded by Monstanto. The following is an excerpt from Change.org: “Millions of Americans who demand a higher standard of news reporting turn to public radio because it’s […]

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Dinner at the Farm Now Full

We have a little bittersweet news for you all. Our Dinner at the Farm event this Friday (Aug. 26th) is now full. While we’re disappointed we cannot accept any more people, we’re excited and very much appreciative of the overwhelming support from all of you. There will be more opportunities in the coming months to […]

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Aug. 26th Dinner Update:

The fund-raising dinner on August 26th is shaping up to be an incredible evening with a few changes to the evening. Here’s our plan for the night: 6:00 pm  Hors d’oeuvres, live music, tours at the Farm (709 Pine Ave.) 7:15ish pm We’ll arrive at the Holland Town Center, WOW Center (12330 James St, Block […]

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