Firefly Fields, Inc

12/25/2022

Whistling Winter Wind ☑️
Cozy Socks & Ambiance ☑️
Classical Text (first published in 1853 by C.M. Saxton) ☑️
WooooSaaaaaa ☑️

…And to All A Goodnight 😘💚💛❤️

Wishing All the Happiest of Holiday Seasons!

11/29/2022

Sending out THE BIGGEST THANKS to you ALL!!! 😘😍🥰🙏 Every year since launching Firefly Fields, you have grown us! You’ve helped us to hone every element of what we do to get you the food we grow on our family’s farm directly to your plates in the best way. You cheer us on and share your enthusiasm with others! And we’re still learning and your still teaching us, and we’re forever grateful for that!! WHAT an incredible Holiday Sales Blitz - these last four days!?! Nothing brings us more joy, pride, and determination than feeding you delicious, wholesome, nourishing food from the land we steward. To be a part of your nourishment and part of your gifting to loved ones is the ultimate highlight for us. Thank you so much for your support, patience, feedback, and awesomeness!! We HAVE SO MANY ORDERS TO FILL! 😅 We are on it!!! 💓💪🥰 THANK YOU!!!! Happy Holidays!!

P.S. BOOK RAFFLE WINNERS WILL BE DRAWN AND ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK!! 🙌🙌😍😍

11/28/2022

Gift Card – Firefly Fields

15% OFF FIREFLY PANTRY GIFT CARDS. GIVE the GIFT of Farm Fresh Goodness! For every $10 spent, buyer’s name goes into BOTH BOOK RAFFLES! Woooooo!

Deal ends tonight at 11:59 p.m.

Posts about Gift Card written by Benjamin Reinhart

11/28/2022

CYBER MONDAY is HERE! THANK YOU, Firefly Friends! We know we’ve been doing the Holiday Blitz for the last three days!! Relief is on the way as this is the LAST DAY to get 15% OFF EVERYTHING ONLINE (gift cards too!). ORGANIC, stone-milled flour, organic beans and berries, raw honey, and pantry gift cards are all 15% off until 11:59 p.m. tonight! We can’t wait to fill your orders! 🙏😘💜🐝🍯🌾🫘

11/27/2022

15% Off EVERYTHING - Raw Honey, Organic Grains, Beans, & Flours + Bonus DEAL from Firefly Fields!! 💛💚💜

The 15% OFF EVERYTHING Sale CONTINUES. Only through Cyber Monday. https://conta.cc/3XCCif5

Now through Cyber Monday for all ONLINE ORDERS 15% OFF EVERYTHING ONLINE Raw Honey, Grains, Beans, & Flours NOW through Cyber Monday (11/27 - 11/28) *ONLINE ONLY, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST Firefly Fields is

11/26/2022

15% OFF EVERYTHING SALE Continues on this Small Business Saturday. Organic beans 🫘, berries, flour 🌾, and raw honey 🍯 grown on our family farm in Michigan - all 15% off online sales through Monday! Oh! GIFT CARDS are 15% off too!! This is the BEST DEAL of the SEASON! 💛🧡🤎🖤

11/25/2022

Products – Firefly Fields

15% OFF EVERYTHING! Black Friday thru CYBER MONDAY. Online sales ONLY, while supplies last! 🙏🍯💛🌾

https://firefly-fields.com/shop/

This is where you can browse products in this store.

11/25/2022

15% OFF ALL ONLINE SALES. Now thru CYBER MONDAY! 😍

11/24/2022

💛💜🧡❤️💜🖤🤍💚🤎💙

11/23/2022

Alright, Friends! Here we go for Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sales. For the first time, we will be having a 15% OFF EVERYTHING sale. Everything means honey, organic flours, beans, and berries. This is for online sales only and only while supplies last. We do expect a sell out on our honey this season, so we have made a bunch of samplers to spread the love! Quantities on the website have been updated to reflect inventory. We sure do appreciate all of you, and are grateful to be included in your meals! 🥰😍🙏

11/21/2022

Look who is in charge of bread this weekend?! Put a pizza lover on the task of Thanksgiving Bread and he pulls out a ‘practice’ focaccia looking like this!! 50:50 Firefly Hard Red: KA BREAD flour

Focaccia Monday!

11/20/2022

Grits ain’t groceries?! They are in this house! 🤣 Fried Polenta smothered with garden greens 🥬 with Firefly Yellow Cornmeal (there’s so much more to make than cornbread 😋). A very tasty bite to welcome in the winter season.

11/18/2022

Friends, there is a great Holiday Market happening tomorrow from 8-12 at Texas Corners! We will not be there this year, but there are SOOO many great vendors who will be! Enjoy the snow globe and wonder tomorrow at Texas Township!

Don't forget the Holiday Market is this Saturday! Make the most of your holiday budget by taking advantage of the Corners Coins promotion - buy 4 $5 tokens, get the 5th FREE! Only at the Holiday Market!

11/18/2022

There’s something warm and sunny ☀️ you get from sipping a hot cup of water with raw goldenrod honey, lemon, turmeric, and ginger. …if you have a little saffron, go ahead and toss that in too! Friday Snow Day!

11/17/2022

Oh my goodness! This snow ❄️! We cannot deny it, Winter is Here! With it, so much meaning as we wrap-up the season that seems to start and end with a long, continuous sprint of getting it done. With crops out of the field, hives wrapped, animals sheltered, and market season a wrap, the change brings with it a certain type of exhale. That being said, I have soo much to catch you up on! Stay tuned for some throw back posts of happenings over the last month. Running on fumes to get things ready for Winter’s whiteout! ❄️❄️🙏🙏 Enjoy this new season!! 💜

11/09/2022

Happy 4th Birthday to Firefly Fields, Inc & 44 Years Farming! Well that year just flew by !!😁It's been four great years since we launched the Firefly brand and website to get you the food, the farming, and the stories directly from our Jennings Family Farm! THANK YOU for being a part of our 'FARMILY!' So many amazing things have happened and continue to develop. Lots of stories to share this winter, once the harvest and holiday season wraps-up (and hopefully more time for blogging!). For now, here's a quick post about our farm: 1979-present!

https://firefly-fields.com/firefly-celebrating-3-years-online/

11/02/2022

Firefly Hard Red Whole Wheat 🌾 sourdough loaf by Bill Ravlin, entomologist and bread baker extraordinaire! Look at the crumb on this one! Few things give us more excitement than other people’s excitement for the organic products we grow on our family farm. Bill has generously shared his formulation for this one loaf that is 50:50 Firefly Hard Red: KA Bread Flour, ~80% hydration. These are bread goals! 🙏💜🌾

10/30/2022

Tell me. Did you get your garlic in the ground yet?! While these warm October days and nights without much frost haven’t been great for the weedy organic bean harvest, they have given me a little extra time to get garlic seed in the ground. Hopefully, we’re not too late…I’ve read getting it in the ground about two weeks before the consistent hard frosts. Looking like we may have caught a window! 🙏🙌💜

What are you up to in your garden this time of year? Or what are you enjoying most from the fall harvest?

10/29/2022

Go visit Sister Janette at Meridian Township Farmers' Market today! She has certified organic beef and fresh quince! Happy Saturday! Beautiful weather for this last Saturday in October!! 💜💜💜

At Meridian market today until 2 pm. I brought quince for those who might be interested. Short ribs and ground beef are also on sale. Have a beautiful day!

10/25/2022

2022! Here is Firefly’s 2022 Honey Varietals - the colors remind us of Autumn leaves. 🌈💜🐝🍯 All of this honey was collected across our family farm in Barry County, Michigan. Spread across six beeyards and different collection times from mid-June to September, the honey is a reflection of the amazing diversity of trees, flowers, and other nectars a 450 acre, organic family farm can support. When we take the time to sink into our roots, we can recognize and cultivate such a multitude of colors and flavor. 🐝🌈🍯🙏

10/23/2022

And that’s a wrap! 2022 At the end of each honey season, I like to line up the honey jars in chronological order of collection to see what all the bees have foraged on from across our family’s farm in Michigan. 🐝🐝🌈🌈 After 15 years of keeping bees, it still blows my mind the diversity of honeys our farm can support! So much flavor, all from one place!

10/19/2022

The Great Teachers in Our Life: some may be in the home, out of the home, at school, from a book or manual, video, podcast, or afar. All I know is how grateful we are to have them, especially the one’s right inside the home. Parents continue to teach lessons forever. I’ll tell you what, learning how to hook up this post hole digger and operating it was a lot easier and more efficient with Mama’s tutorial than YOUTube or a manual (all helpful tools) could ever be. When you realize time is limited, you surround yourself with other’s that know and have the love and patience to teach. It’s always people that make the v difference. 💜🙏

10/14/2022

How beautiful, the Honeycomb! Honey bottling is in process for our LAST farmers market of the year, tomorrow at . It’s been a great season, Friends!! 💛💛

10/13/2022

Lots happening in October! Including our LAST FARMER'S MARKET of the season this Saturday! Come see us at the Meridian Township Farmers' Market this SATURDAY!! The Beekeeper will be there (with special guest - The Queen Bee - her mom)!! The Grain guy will be staying back to work on farm projects!!

10/13/2022

Celebrating the organic black bean harvest with…you guessed it BLACK BEANS!! Tacos, Grain Bowls, Casseroles, Brownies, Soups, Chili, Curry, Tempeh…. Bring it on!!

10/03/2022

Honeycomb: Sweet to the Soul, Health to the Body

Happy Monday, Friends! To start this week out bright, let's look at something both structurally amazing, beautiful and flat out delish! Fewer things are sweeter to the eyes, than Fresh Honey Comb!

We often get the question, 'How To Eat Comb Honey?'

Well, of course, eat it however you’d like! I cannot deny it, I eat it straight from the hive. When I’m out in the bee yard and I spot the first spring honeycomb, I use my hive tool to slice a little corner to chew on. Here, I present some ideas on ways to eat it:

- Eat it straight, dig in with a spoon, and enjoy the chew
- Make it the centerpiece of your cheese and cracker board, you cannot go wrong with brie, goat, or blue cheese and multi-grain crackers
- Shmear it on your favorite bread or grilled cheese sandwich (we LOVE warm or toasty bread)
- Dip in a cup of warm cocoa
- Add a boost to soups or smoothies, it will dissolve in the soup or get smoothed in the smoothie
- Mix into your baking batter; think scones, pancakes, waffles
- Fold honeycomb into ricotta and serve over pancakes and waffles
- Sweeten your tapioca or other warm porridge with honeycomb
- Slice little chunky bits to toss into your nutty, peppery arugula salad topped with almonds and goat cheese

There are so many ways to enjoy this sweet gift from the ‘hive-bee’ as Charles Darwin called it. You cannot go wrong, and while the list above might give you some ideas on where to start, never forget, it’s always a great bet to keep it simple and just go straight for it. Some upscale restaurants will simply present a frame of comb honey (straight from the hive) on the table surrounded by farm fresh cheeses and other delights. Presenting honeycomb in its most pure form is sure to strike up some fantastic conversations and wonder for your table just as it has for thousands of years.

Please share below on ways you like to eat the Honey Comb.

To learn more about the honeycomb, here's a little piece I wrote about it:

Honeycomb - a brief history and how to eat it

09/30/2022

Hard to believe we are here, September 30! ☺️ Firefly has just two farmers markets remaining this season: tomorrow (October 1) at Texas Township and October 15 at Meridian Township . It’s never been a better time to stock up on raw honey 🍯 and fresh, organic flour for your fall and winter bakes! 💛

Don’t worry if you can’t make the markets, we’ll be available to order from online. But, heads up to all the honey lovers…it’s looking to be another sell out season this year. You all just blow us away. So if there’s something you want/need, please reach out sooner than later!

Have a wonderful Friday and finish to this Sweet, Super Charged September!! 🍁💪💛

09/28/2022

Happy Wednesday! 🤩😁💜 Enjoy the FOOD art!!

09/27/2022

The last pack of peppers 🌶 has been pickled!! And with that, she took off her latex gloves 🧤 and smiled!😍😘💛😅 How’s it going out there, Food Preservers?!

My list of things to preserve is getting shorter (which is good because the number of empty jars 🫙 is becoming fewer…and my enthusiasm is chasing a finish line!!). 🤣🤣

09/26/2022

Great Grains Great Women! So honored to host a field event at the farm last week with these amazing farmers from across the Midwest. Thanks to and others for bringing such a wonderful group together. The Fellowship of the Grain! 🌾🥖🥨🥐🍞

09/24/2022

Yesterday marked the beginning of fall planting here in southwest Michigan. Yes, you heard that correctly. Did you know that most cereal grains like spelt, oats, rye, and many wheats prefer cooler climates and so get planted in the fall and harvested late spring and early summer the following year?!

The video shows Archman drilling/planting organic spelt. All this grain talk and cooler weather has us thinking about stone-ground bakes like Ben’s delicious pretzel buns made with whole wheat and spelt! YUM!!

09/21/2022

WHAT’S IN A PICTURE? We’re able to so quickly and so easily take pictures these days that sometimes I find myself swiftly moving on to the next thing without much reflection. But yesterday morning, as the Amish Warlord (my mama) and I rose early to move a couple of beehives from one part of the farm to another, I snuck this shot and I have been looking at it ever since. Everything about it reminds me of her BIG spirit!

1) It’s EARLY - and those that know her, know she gets up early ~4 am everyday!

2) She’s ready - ready for anything that might happen at all times possessing the strongest will I’ve ever met.

3) The Light Glows Warm - she might be tough, but her light and kindness is as warm as it gets.

09/20/2022

Ben’s beans: Birds egg, tiger eye, and arikara. Ben setup some small test plots this year to see how a few different heirloom beans would perform. Aside from feeding some bunny 🐰 rabbits gourmet, we were able to snag a few for ourselves.

What do you think? Would you eat these?! What other beans besides organic black beans and soybeans would you like to see us grow?

09/16/2022

The returns this Saturday, September 17 from 8:00 am - 2:00 pm. Our vendor list looks good this week. Check it out at www.meridian.mi.us/FarmersMarket.

09/16/2022

💜Saturday is market day for us at Meridian Township Farmers' Market!💛
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09/15/2022

Bee Bread or Fermented Pollen, when we whip it together with fresh raw honey and comb we call it 'Bee Butter.'

What is Bee Bread? Bees collect flower pollen that is rich in vitamins, minerals, proteins, lipids and fatty acids, enzymes, carotenoids and bioflavonoids. Bees process and increase nutritional value of flower pollen through a fermentation process that adds honey and bee secretions to the pollen to make bee bread. It has powerful antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties that strengthen the capillaries, reduce inflammation, stimulate the immune system and lower cholesterol levels naturally.

In addition to preservation, the fermentation process of the pollen also renders its nutrients more available. Some proteins are broken down into amino acids, starches are metabolized into simple sugars, and vitamins become more bio-available. This product is raw, fermented, bee bread blended with unfiltered honey from the same hive hosted on 450 certified organic acres. Only minimal amounts are collected each year, as we strictly abide by the 'Golden Honey Rule.' ...Only collecting honey from what is above two deep boxes of brood, honey, and bread.

LOOK CLOSELY at the pictures. You can see the pollen at different stages in the fermentation process from granules of pollen freshly delivered by forager bees to fully fermented 'bee bread' that looks like a smooth gelatinous cake!

It's a wild product, and we never know how much excess the hives will provide (if any) each year!

If you'd like to try it yourself: https://firefly-fields.com/product/fermented-bee-butter/

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09/14/2022

When Queen Elizabeth II died, why was it important that they tell her bees?

Elizabeth II's bees informed of her death, as part of a long-standing beekeeping tradition.

Across the UK and Europe, many 18th and 19th century magazines, diary entries and paintings refer to the custom of telling the bees.

But the practice may have its origins in Celtic mythology, which held that bees were intermediaries between our world and the spirit world.

Whether it is a birth, death or marriage, the bees were to be told about all important events in their keeper's lives.

It was believed beekeepers had strong connections with the bees, so they deserved to be treated like family, and mourn them when they died.

The superstitious and somewhat cute tradition of 'telling the bees' of a death in the family has been part of rural British folklore for centuries. It was no different for the death of Britain's longest reigning monarch.

09/13/2022

What is it about cooler, longer nights that draws me back to Fermentation?

The change of seasons from summer to fall gets me back to my fermented state of mind. There’s something so incredibly satisfying about witnessing the process from which something too tiny to see (microbes 🦠 ) transforms a product (like milk) into a completely different product (like yogurt) with a little help from a change in environmental conditions. All I have to say is ‘it’s pretty cool and delicious!!’ 😁😍🙏😋

I feel Fermentation Season is about to ramp up….in a very slow process kind of way!