Josh Kilmer-Purcell's Blog, page 144

In Praise of Basil

This week's guest blogger Noelle Weaver was born and raised in Goshen, Indiana amidst corn and cow fields. Noelle now lives amidst the exploding artisanal food scene in the urban area of Brooklyn, New York. A marketing consultant by day, during nights and weekends she pursues the life of an incidental foodie and cook exploring all the various flavors and tastes that cultures both old and new have taught us about who we are, how we live and the importance of history and ritual that are handed...

Mary and Heartbreak

Mary Beekman is a four-year-old ghost who resides in The Beekman Mansion, and considers Brent and Josh her "imaginary friends." Follow Mary Beekman's Diary each week to learn what it's like to be a young child in early 19th century America

Today was just right for being outside, the sun was very warm……but not too hot. We spent long hours at church and it seemed to take unusually long returning home.  I was eager to change my clothes and be outside with my rag dolly; under the trees and...

Hollywood Calling

Regular visitor to Beekman 1802 and Sharon Springs native, Ross Wassermann, recounts how Hollywood has come calling to Sharon Springs before.  We think the results will be better this time around.

On the morning of May 23, the New York Times ran a prominent obituary for David E. Durston who had died at the age of 88. Mr Durston' s claim to fame was having directed the 1970 cult horror film I Drink Your Blood. If you look up I Drink Your Blood online, you will learn that the film has the...

Grilling Recipe Contest – win a Grill Kit from OXO

Enter our Summer Grilling Recipe Contest and win a Grill Kit from Oxo.

Summer is a short season in Sharon Springs. We've only got about three months to squeeze in all the ice cream churning, skinny-dipping, and cloud gazing for the whole year. But we're a determined couple. We leave no tan-line unturned.

One of our favorite summer activities is, of course, grilling outdoors. Vegetables, meat, desserts…is there anything that doesn't taste better a little bit burnt?

So to celebrate our shortest...

BLAAK Onion Jam

Beekman 1802 BLAAK Goat Milk Cheese is so unique (there's not another aged goat cheese like it made in the U.S.) that we had to experiment to find the perfect accompaniment for it's rich, somewhat salty flavor. We worked with our friend Margi Neary, the owner of My Sister's Place Cafe in Sharon Springs,  to create Beekman 1802 BLAAK Onion Jam.

Made with Beekman and other locally sourced onions, as well as aged balsamic vinegar and local maple syrup, it's sweet – but not fruity – taste is...

Blaak

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Right after Farmer John  walked the first goats into the barn at the farm, we tried our hands at making cheese–a simple farmer's cheese made from mixing the milk, the juice from a lemon, and a bit of salt.  We drained the cheese by tying it up in a piece of cheese cloth and hanging it from the kitchen sink faucet.

We read a few books on cheesemaking and spent m...

The Bucolic Plague

As some of you may have seen on the Martha Stewart Show, my new book, The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers, comes out in just a few days. You can read the prologue here.

Brent and I are both very excited about it, and also a little anxious. While I may have revealed a lot about myself in my first memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days, the embarrassing events in that first book happened a full decade before the world read them. In contrast, The Bucolic Plague is the s...

BLAAK ONION JAM

Beekman 1802 BLAAK Goat Milk Cheese is so unique (there's not another aged goat cheese like it made in the U.S.) that we had to experiment to find the perfect accompaniment for it's rich, somewhat salty flavor. We worked with our friend Margi to create Beekman 1802 BLAAK Onion Jam.

Made with Beekman and other locally sourced onions, as well as aged balsamic vinegar and local maple syrup, it's sweet – but not fruity – taste is simply perfect when added to a cheese plate with our cheese. Even...

Seeing Reality For Myself

Camera poised to capture Beekman reality.

Kenn is the creator of Everyday House Blend, which quickly became one of the most popular "fan-blogs" to cover Martha Stewart and her brand. It has now expanded to include all facets of "good living."

The early morning fog was lifting, giving way to the warming sun as we approached the Beekman.  Turning into the gravel drive, the familiar sights of the red barn, the rolling fields, and the heirloom garden were before me.  After hours of driving, I was a...

Beekman 1802 & you?

Come on in. Our site is your site.

From the very beginning, we called Beekman 1802 "a shared experiment in seasonal living." There are already plenty of "ec0-green-sustainable-lifestyle-self-help-guru-experts" out there telling you how to live. We freely admit that we're learning about life as we go, and we will learn more from you than you ever will from us.

We've already learned so much from each other in the comments sections of each post. So we wanted to add a home-page featured forum for p...