Rutherford Farm

All the berries ripening at the farm this week!

The strawberries have done amazing this year! My blackberries I planted last year are doing awesome, too. The wild ones are blooming all over the farm!

We are thinking of doubling our strawberry crop and offering you pick. What are your thoughts?

It all started May 19, 2021 with a little dreaming. We were sitting in our house in New Market, AL and one of us said something about building a little cabin on our farm in Kentucky. The other said yeah I’ve always had a spot picked out. Next thing you know we were pulling up the same spot on the map. We thought we were dreaming about our own little hideaway when we visited family or a hunting cabin. But God! He had other plans.

Over the past year our joy has slowly faded away. My spark had almost gone out until God recently brought it all back. He reminded me how we got here, how quick that little dream turned into a reality. How we completely trusted him and took a leap of faith. I found the blog I kept during this amazing part of our life and begin reading each post. It sparked that joy and reminded me of the faith and excitement we had for what God was showing us. He reminded me He is with us and He IS NOT FINISHED! He is working on our endurance, our steadfastness, He is purifying us like fire purifies gold and preparing us for the blessing He has in store for us and our farm.

Over the next few posts I am going to recap our story. How a little dream on May 19, 2021 turned into reality on September 11, 2021. It’s time to remember our why! Time to bring that spark back and faithfully trust God with what’s next in our story.

Trusting God and following His plan for the farm! We just added 8 fruit trees to the farm! Half should be fruit bearing this year and the other half need another year.

We plan to add more this fall and next spring, too. It’s exciting to watch the farm grow and change each year. Being able to feed our family and our community is a beautiful thing!

We planted Fuji, Granny Smith and Honeycrisp Apple trees. We planted a plum tree and a plumcot which is a favorite of mine. A hybrid plum and apricot.

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! I’m excited to introduce you to Truvy and Spud! Truvy is a mini Nubian and Spud is a Nigerian Dwarf. They will be joining us this spring. Right now they are with their mama’s across the county at Red Castle Farm.

We harvested pumpkins yesterday and today all our Chapel Hill Head Start children got a pumpkin to take home!

Over the weekend I weeded, fed and mulched the blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and grapes! They are ready for fall/winter.

Welcome to our newly updated page! We are working hard to grow our farm and give back to our community. We will continue to use this page to share great recipes, healthy alternatives and such, but we also want to share as much as we can about growing farm! Stay tuned for more... :)

Apple Cranberry Oat Muffins

Makes 18
90 Calories, 15 Carbs, 2 Fat, 3 Protein & 3 Fiber

Mix together:
2 cups buttermilk
1 cup old fashion oats
2 large eggs
2.5 T of Truvia Brown Sugar Blend
1 granny smith apple chopped w/skin
1/4 cups reduced sugar dried cranberries

In another bowl swift together:
1 cup whole wheat white flour (King Arthur is my fav)
1/3 cup almond flour
1 t baking soda
2 t baking powder
1/2 t pink salt

After you swift together the dry ingredients add them to the wet and mix just enough to get everything mixed together. Do not over mix. Evenly fill 18 muffin tins and back for 24-28 minutes at 375.

This weeks Meal Prep:
Shredded Chicken Tacos with Cilantro Jalapeño Pesto and Chipotle Slaw! Yum!

Quick Tip: Buy a bag of Cole slaw mix put it in a bowl and mix it with 1/2 cup of your favorite dressing. Not only is a great taco topper, but a great side to go with your sandwich, wrap or grilled chicken.

Busy weekend with no time to meal prep? Just grab some healthy chips (Wild Roots Red Quinoa Tortilla Chips), wraps and your favorite chicken salad! I threw this together in a couple minutes right at my desk.

Sugar Free Churro Cupcakes

Peanut Butter Caramel Dip

Made this quick and easy dip for apple and banana bites today. It’s delicious!!

1 cup 0% Fat Greek Yogurt
2 Tablespoons Natural PB
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
2 scoops of Vanilla Protein
Sugar-Free Caramel Syrup- 1 serving

You can substitute PB Powder for PB and Caramel Extract for the caramel syrup.

Makes 4 1/4 cup servings. Perfect dip for an apple or slice a banana up and make little banana & dip sandwiches with some Lily’s sugar free chocolate chips.

Hawaiian Chicken Pizza

4oz Grilled Chicken Breast
2T Pizza Sauce
1-2 pieces of thin Honey Shaved Ham (1 ounce is what I used)
1/4 cup fresh pineapple
2T Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
1/4 t Italian Seasoning

Grill/bake/Airfry the chicken with Italian Seasoning until about 80-85% done. Put on cookie sheet add pizza sauce, ham, pineapple and cheese. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Add a cup of fresh Broccoli and make it a complete meal!

241 Calories, 8 Fat, 33 P and 11 C (this includes baked broccoli w/ spray of Olive oil).

Yogurt Bark! That’s what I made! A quick, easy and healthy dessert. So many combos you could use. Used 1.5 tablespoons of the nut butter, 1 tablespoon of chips melted with a teaspoon of milk, 1/2 cup raspberries and 1/4 cup of my sugar free candies pecans. Oh and the whole tub of Greek yogurt. This made 6 servings at 112 calories, 2.5 net carbs, 6.1 fat and 10.1 protein.

What do you think I made with these ingredients??

Chaffle White Bread BLT for lunch this week. 3 pieces of center cut bacon, Butter (aka Boston) lettuce and Roma tomato.

White bread Chaffle is 1/2 Cup shredded cheddar, 1 egg, 1T almond flour and dash of salt. That makes two 4” Waffles. 430 Calories, 68% Fat, 28% Protein and 4% Net Carbs. Add some avocado Mayo and fresh broccoli to get it closer to 70,20,5 on the macros.

What’s for supper tonight? Pizza Meatballs from my weekend meal prep and Salad!

It was amazing, too. The meatballs were great and the sauce was yummy! Def will have this again!

Pizza Meatballs
4 Servings, 445 calories
32 Fat, 29 Protein and 2 Net Carbs

Pizza Sauce
6 Servings, 36 calories
0 fat, 2 Protein and 6 Net Carbs

Egg Cups and Keto Biscuits

Add a tablespoon of butter and sugar free jam to make a complete clean keto meal. This will be my lunch the next 6 days. 😄

Happy New Year!

Got back on track today with some meal prep. Made these Egg Cups from the new cookbook a friend got me for Christmas. Guys these are amazing and super easy—Kevin even loved them.

Credit to Runner’s Kitchen Cookbook by Emma Coburn. I adjusted it to 10 eggs scrambled, used 1/3 less fat cream cheese, Boars Head Smoked Ham and shredded cheddar.

Apologies for being a total slacker lately!

I will be coming back in full force starting January. Working on some plans for more lives, weekly recipes post, health tips and giveaways. Stayed tuned for our January line-up. :)

Yummy Egg Bowl for breakfast! 2 eggs, spinach, green pepper, cherry tomatoes and turkey sausage!

I made these this morning and they are yummy! The pumpkin seeds give a salty taste and the maple cream cheese bring the sweet!

You could always use almond flour, AP four or whole wheat flour instead of white whole wheat I used.

Apologies for my absence in October it turned out to be a super busy month.