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Gooseberry Bridge Farm You-Pick Flower Farm and Homestead! Seasonal baby farm animal play dates, birthday parties, showers and more! Farm
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10/11/2026

I'm always asked how we use our freeze dried foods! This is one way!
It still takes a bit of time to let the food rehydrate but you can pour the water and go do another task and come back to it, no need to stand there chopping veggies.
These were all freeze dried raw, only the white potatoes were blanched. Freeze dried Young luffa, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, carrots, sweet onions, and basil - with some of our home made herb salt (more basil and other herbs) on top!
We used the leftovers from this lunch in a soup we made for dinner with home canned tomato sauce and lettover pot roast.
*note* we've learned that freeze dried carrots and sweet potatoes are very sensitive to light, they bleach very quickly - so we now store them in Mylar, these jars have been in storage almost a year and still taste great but are a little pale.

10/11/2026

Who’s with me? I may need a pep talk to get through the last stretch of this season!

10/11/2026

When I was in my 20s and had 2 kids, pregnant with our 3rd. I decided I wanted to learn how to cook and bake from scratch, how to can, and I was already interested in gardening but it was just for fun - I never thought I could grow a significant amount of our food for the year. I never thought I could start a business and sell products we grow and make and share our life and these skills with our community.
It seemed like SO MUCH. Over the years I taught myselt more and more skills and set small attainable goals, but we also took some big steps, and invested in the right tools to make all of this possible. And possibly most importantly, took the time to involve our kids every step of the way, even when it was inconvenient. learned one thing at a time.
Tried one (or a few) new things at a time. Being on this side of all of this change feels so good, and it started in the kitchen, with really young kids "helping"

10/11/2026

I’m not going to say I don’t buy “stuff”

But the stuff you buy matters, change your habits and choose where your dollars go.

Come see us at Farmers Market of the Ozarks until 1pm - right next to !
10/10/2026

Come see us at Farmers Market of the Ozarks until 1pm - right next to !

10/09/2026

This year’s honey harvest was too small (~3 gallons) to bother with all the equipment. So we went back to basics, back to how we started extracting honey before we had an extractor. This process also gives us significantly more bees wax to render and use in our salves and other products.

10/09/2026

We have now perfected this method! Check out our yt for details!!

10/08/2026

You aren't going to get overnight results or grow all your food in your first season - or maybe ever. You aren't likely to get the results I get with my garden with your tirst season.
Just pick one thing, and do it. Grow a garden, can something, even store bought fruit (even frozen), look up one recipe and try it. Buy one case of jars. Use a big stock pot you already have, or get one and use it for stew too. Maybe one day you'll can that stew. You don't need do it all.

There is still time to get your pumpkins and enjoy fall on the farm with Piglets & Pumpkins! (And baby goats, bunnies, a...
10/08/2026

There is still time to get your pumpkins and enjoy fall on the farm with Piglets & Pumpkins! (And baby goats, bunnies, and our fluffy little cow, Juniper!)

Come see us this week
OPEN HOURS:
Thursday 4pm-Sunset
Friday 4pm-Sunset
Saturday 3pm-Sunset
Sunday 2pm-Sunset

10/07/2026

I didn’t grow up on a farm.
I didn’t grow up with a vegetable garden.
I didn’t grow up canning.

I started doing all of this “homesteading” stuff not having a clue that it was a thing or a movement .. I just wanted to learn.. so i started baking from scratch, and taught my kids (Mollie ) - I started doing more with our garden harvests, and bought more food from farmers markets. I took my kids to visit farms so they (ok me too) could learn. - and after over a decade of small changes we moved to our farm.

So if you’re feeling like you can’t do it, you can.

Start small, jump in, try new things - don’t listen to people who tell you it’s not good enough.

You don’t have to do it all, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Sometimes food goes bad, sometimes it doesn’t taste good, sometimes you don’t know what to do with it - bugs kill your plants, weeds take over - animals die - jars break in the canner - you give up, and then start all over again.

Two more things:

zip ties and duct tape can fix just about anything so stock up.

And, everyone has an opinion, but people on the internet don’t always know what will work best for you.


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177 Elm Grove Rd
Rogersville, MO
65742

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+14174273569

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