Buck's Hobby Farm

08/24/2025

It may take a while for commercial products to be available here, but this is very interesting...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike comme...

08/22/2025

Jostaberry wine! Steam extracted juice from 9.5kg of berries. Dextrose (370g per gallon) added while juice is hot. When the juice cools it gets 1/4 tsp tannins, 1 tsp yeast nutrient, and 1.5g Bourgovin RC212 yeast (per 1 gallon carboy).

Rack to bottles in about 2 months.

First taste in one year.

Best taste develops over 3-4 years.

We have only one jostaberry bush that is 5-6 years old... but we started cuttings a couple years ago so should be able to fill a 5 gallon carboy in 2-3 years.

Jostaberry is a gooseberry crossed with a black currant. Grows well here.

07/31/2025

Our first market!! So exciting...

Buck's Creek Fire should have:
- 3 different hot sauces - fermented habanero pineapple, fermented jalapeno lime and salsa verde
- BBQ rub
- Steak spice
- Salish salt (alderwood smoked BC sea salt)
- Smoked peppercorns
- Smoked celtic sea salt
- Fresh baked jalapeno cheddar bread