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These 3 New Hot Sauces Represent My Favorite 3 Weeks of the Year

These 3 New Hot Sauces Represent My Favorite 3 Weeks of the Year

Most folks' favorite time of year is one of the 4 big seasons that you all know. My favorite time of year is right where we are right now.

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Making hot sauce is empowering. But making mustard is humbling

Making hot sauce is empowering. But making mustard is humbling

Mustard is almost as versatile as hot sauce. Think sausages, sandwiches, salads, pretzels, tofu, or stir fry. Or, do like my mom and spread on a wedge of cabbage.

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Do you want to taste the first hot sauce that we ever sold?

Do you want to taste the first hot sauce that we ever sold?

Jalapeno Fennel Hot Sauce was the very first hot sauce that I ever sold at the farmers market - just over 14 years ago. I thought that it would be fun to recreate and boy, it seems like 14 years ago, I was onto something! 
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Good to the last drizzle

Good to the last drizzle

Three fast ways to use every last bit of your Fat Toad Farm Caramel Sauce...plus simple jar reuses.

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Featured Small Farm: Familia Farm

Featured Small Farm: Familia Farm

 Unlike many Vermont farms, Familia Farm focuses almost entirely on custom growing. Instead of setting up at a weekly farmers market, Geoff grows crops ordered in advance by food producers like us.
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Discovering caramel all over again

Discovering caramel all over again

One of the unexpected joys of buying a brand that someone else founded is hearing people say, “Oh yeah, I love that stuff. I’ve had it for years!” That's always great.
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Our most popular flavored caramel

Our most popular flavored caramel

Whether you’re already a Fat Toad Farm fan or just discovering what happens when goat’s milk meets real Vermont craft, this jar is one worth opening - and sharing, if you’re feeling generous.

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3 totally new micro batch hot sauces!

3 totally new micro batch hot sauces!

We have three totally new microbatch hot sauces this month. They have only existed in our brains prior to their creation. And they are just yummy.

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The caramel that's captured so many spoons

The caramel that's captured so many spoons

At Fat Toad Farm, we spend hours gently hand-stirring fresh Vermont goat’s milk until it transforms into something unforgettable: rich, creamy, small-batch caramel made the slow way, just like it’s been done for generations.

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The secret ingredient is: don’t f* it up

Even when I messed up a dish, people were really into it. And key was that the ingredients were just that good. When you’re working with stuff that’s grown with care on small farms, it kind of doesn’t matter if the roast is a little overdone or the salad is a little weird. The flavor carries you.
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Goats have a reputation

>Goats being milked for making caramel

 

 

 

 

From our farms to your spoons, it matters what the goats eat.

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A phone call I wasn't expecting

Food & Wine Magazine Article Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Taco Vibes Only

"Have you seen Food and Wine?!"

That was the opening line of the phone call I got as I had just finished setting up our booth at our first New York Fancy Food Show. I was tired and sweaty and definitely hadn't seen Food and Wine.

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