This lime thinks it's caviar. 🍋🟩Outside, it looks like a tiny dark cucumber. Almost black, about the size of your finger. Most people would walk right past it.Then you cut it open. Out spill tiny pale pink pearls. Nature's own popping boba.This is finger lime. Chefs call it citrus caviar, or caviar lime.Citrus australasica comes from the rainforests of eastern Australia. Aboriginal Australians were eating it long before any chef found it.All citrus flesh is made of tiny juice sacs called vesicles. In a regular lime they're long, packed tight and stuck together. In finger lime they stay round and loose, so they tumble out like caviar. Skin can be green, black, purple or red. Pearls go from pale green to pink to deep red. Ours: dark skin, pale pink pearls.How to eat it? Cut it in half. Squeeze from the end like toothpaste. The pearls pop between your teeth. Sour, uniquely fragrant, fresh, clean. Try it on oysters, sashimi, grilled fish, yam, miang kham, a G&T or coconut ice cream. Don't juice it. You lose the pop.We grow it because we want to eat it and nobody else sells it.Message us to reserve.What would you top with citrus caviar? Tell us in the comments 😉————-มะนาวลูกนี้คิดว่าตัวเองเป็นคาเวียร์ 🍋🟩ข้างนอกดูเหมือนแตงกวาจิ๋ว สีเข้มเกือบดำ ขนาดเท่านิ้วมือ ใครเดินผ่านก็คงไม่สังเกตแต่พอผ่าออกมา เม็ดใสๆ สีชมพูอ่อนไหลออกมาเต็มจาน เหมือนป๊อปปิ้งจากธรรมชาตินี่คือฟิงเกอร์ไลม์ (Finger lime) เชฟเรียกว่า "มะนาวคาเวียร์“Citrus australasica มาจากป่าฝนทางตะวันออกของออสเตรเลีย ชาวอะบอริจินกินกันมานานแล้ว ก่อนที่เชฟจะรู้จักเนื้อส้มและมะนาวทุกชนิดประกอบด้วยถุงน้ำเล็กๆ (juice vesicle) ในมะนาวทั่วไปถุงน้ำยาว เบียดกันแน่น ติดกันเป็นกลีบ แต่ในฟิงเกอร์ไลม์ถุงน้ำกลม แยกกันหลวมๆ เลยร่วงออกมาเป็นเม็ดเหมือนคาเวียร์เปลือกมีทั้งเขียว ดำ ม่วง แดง เม็ดข้างในมีตั้งแต่เขียวอ่อน ชมพู ไปจนถึงแดงเข้ม ลูกนี้เปลือกเข้ม เม็ดชมพูอ่อนกินยังไง? ผ่าครึ่ง บีบจากปลายเหมือนบีบยาสีฟัน เคี้ยวแล้วแตกป๊อป รสเปรี้ยว หอม สด สะอาด โรยหอยนางรม ซาชิมิ ปลาย่าง ใส่ยำ เมี่ยงคำ จินโทนิค หรือโรยไอติมกะทิ อย่าเอาไปคั้นเป็นน้ำ เพราะเสน่ห์อยู่ที่เม็ดเล็กๆเราปลูกเพราะอยากกิน แล้วก็ไม่มีใครขาย แต่ตอนนี้เรามีขายแล้ว ทักแชทมาจองได้เลย🍋🟩🌸🔬🦪🍸 #FarmLife #FingerLime #CitrusCaviar #farmlife #SoilToTable #huahin
He learned about chickens from a book. Then he came to meet the real ones 🐔A private farm tour, hands on from start to finish. Fed the hens fresh greens. Held them. Collected eggs from the nest. Picked figs 🍐Books are a good start. But some things you have to touch to really understand.A little farmer in the making.Thank you to the lovely family for spending the day with us and supporting our farm.🧑🌾🪺🐝🌻🥗Want a private farm tour for your family? Message us.
Milky mushrooms. First flush after the big rain. 🍄Calocybe indica. Also called milky mushroom, or summer mushroom.We grow it on a compost bed under plastic. Straw, spawn, then a casing layer on top. Then you wait, and you keep it dark and damp, and you do not disturb it.Then one morning they are just there.Look at the base of the big one. Those little white pins are the next flush coming up behind it. That is what a healthy bed looks like.No spray. No fungicide. Nothing but compost, water, and patience.On the plate it holds up better than most. Thick stem, firm bite, mild and slightly sweet. It does not collapse into mush in a curry or a stir fry. Slice the stem thick, do not waste it, the stem is the best part.It also keeps longer than oyster or straw mushroom after picking, which for a farm selling direct means it actually arrives at your kitchen in good shape.Small batch this round. We are learning the bed.🧑🌾☔️🪴🥗🍄🟫#milkymushroom #SoilToTable #farmajarn #HuaHin #smallfarm
Beetroot. Out of the ground this morning. 🌱Our soil here is sandy clay. Alive, mineral rich, no chemical spray, nothing forced. Small farm, slow growing. The beets take their time and fill up with flavour instead of water.Now look at the tops.Supermarket beetroot shows up bald. The leaves get cut off at origin because they wilt in two or three days and never survive the long haul in a chiller. That means you lose the best part of the plant.Beet greens are fully edible and honestly better for you than the root. Vitamin K, vitamin A, folate, iron, magnesium, several times over. The glowing pink stalks are betalain, the same pigment that turns the root deep crimson.How we eat the whole thing: Leaves, fried hard with garlic. Like spinach, but with attitude. Stalks, sliced into batons and started a minute early. Root, roasted until sweet, or grated raw into salad.Leaves attached means it was in the soil this week. No leaves means nobody can tell you how long it sat in cold storage. 🥬Grown here. Grown slowly. Eaten whole.#farmajarn #beetroot #beetgreens #huahin #sprayfree #livingsoil #smallfarm #growninthailand #eattheleaves #knowyourfarmer #soiltotable
🐔 Did you know… if you’re a nice customer, you can actually come feed our chickens with us!Just make an appointment and come hang out with the flock. It’s fun, relaxing, and honestly one of the best ways to see with your own eyes what goes into making our eggs so good.Of course, this activity is only available if you love chickens as much as we do. ❤️🐔Little chicken test. If you visit another farm and try to feed the chickens some fresh veggies… but they don’t come running to you, there’s a chance they’ve never been spoiled with veggies before.Our girls,they know exactly what’s good.
🥚 What does "free-range" actually mean?Short answer: it is a rule about a door. Not a promise about a life.Here is how three different places write that rule.🇪🇺 **Europe counts everything.** Hens must be able to go outside all day. The outside bit has to be mostly grass or plants, not bare dirt. One hen per 4 square metres out there. Inside, no more than 9 hens per square metre, 15 cm of perch each for sleeping, and loose litter over a third of the floor for dust bathing. The grass also has to be within 150 metres of the little chicken door. Yes, someone measured that.🇺🇸 **America counts almost nothing.** The hens need outdoor access during laying. The outdoor area can be fenced or covered with netting. There is no minimum space per hen. No rule about what the ground is made of. No rule about how the birds actually get out there.🇹🇭 **Thailand sits in between.** The standard says hens are let out for part of the day onto ground with grass or plants they can eat, so they can scratch, forage and preen. Extension guidance suggests around 5 square metres of range per bird. Guidance, though. Not a hard line.So the label regulates the door. It does not tell you whether the hens walk through it.What decides that is simpler than it sounds. How wide the doorway is. Whether there is shade and cover outside. How far a hen has to walk across open ground. How many birds are sharing it. Chickens are prey animals. A bare field with nothing to hide under looks like a bad idea to them, so most of the flock stays near the wall.🍳 One more myth while we are here. A deep orange yolk tells you about feed, not about freedom. Marigold, corn, greens. A caged hen fed the right thing makes a lovely orange yolk.🐣So skip the label. Four questions do more work.🐓How many hens. How big is the range. How many hours are they out. Can I come and see.At Farm-a-jarn, we will answer all four. 🐓🥚Eat good eggs.#Farmajarn #HuaHin #FreeRange #Eggs**Sources** EU rules, Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, Annex II: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=celex:32008R0589 EU indoor conditions: egginfo.co.uk/egg-facts-and-figures/production/free-range-egg US, USDA AMS QAD 709 (April 2025): ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/QAD%20709%20Policy%20Update%20Memo%204-22-25.pdf US labelling authority: canr.msu.edu/resources/animal-raising-label-claims Thailand, มกษ. 6914(G)-2560: certify.dld.go.th/images/pdfs/agricultural%20product/a22.pdf Thai range guidance, DLD Region 2: region2.dld.go.th/index.php/th/news-office7/infographic/info2569-11
Two new figs of the week. Fully ripe despite the rain.The dark one is Black Madeira from Portugal. Collectors call it the King of Figs. Deep red jam inside, with enough acid to stop the sweetness getting smug.The green one is Inca Gold. Nothing to do with the Incas. A Southeast Asian favourite, barely known in Europe. Amber flesh, honey sweet.A king and a commoner. Same board.At Farm-a-jarn, we don’t just grow average figs. We grow good, unique, tasty figs.Eat good figs.#Farmajarn #HuaHin #BlackMadeira #IncaGold
Today we had to move one of our stingless bee nests into a new house box.Rainy season = humidity… and unfortunately, their old house got too damp and started growing mold. So we had to step in and give them a fresh, dry home.Hopefully they’ll rebuild their nest, recover, and survive this round.This happens every year during the rainy season. And when the bees are busy surviving instead of producing honey… well, there goes our honey supply.So next time you wonder why our honey is expensive… 🙂↔️ Now you know. It’s not just “put bees in a box and collect honey.”———วันนี้ต้องย้ายบ้านให้น้องผึ้งชันโรง 1 รัง 🐝🏠ช่วงหน้าฝนความชื้นเยอะมาก บ้านน้องชื้นจนเริ่มมีเชื้อรา เลยต้องรีบย้ายไปบ้านใหม่ที่แห้งกว่า หวังว่าน้องๆ จะช่วยกันสร้างรังใหม่ ฟื้นตัว และอยู่รอดรอบนี้นะเรื่องแบบนี้เกิดขึ้นแทบทุกปีช่วงหน้าฝน และพอผึ้งต้องเอาพลังงานไปซ่อมบ้าน สร้างรังใหม่ และเอาตัวรอด เราก็ไม่ได้เก็บน้ำผึ้งเลยเพราะฉะนั้น ถ้าเคยสงสัยว่าทำไมน้ำผึ้งของเราถึงแพง… ตอนนี้น่าจะพอเข้าใจแล้วว่าเลี้ยงผึ้งไม่ได้แค่เอาผึ้งใส่กล่องแล้วรอเก็บน้ำผึ้งนะ
