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This is the second installment of our Favorite Things series, our holiday gift guide in which each week someone will share one of their favorite things and why they love it. We hope this will help give you some ideas for gifting this season! This week's post comes to you from Scott: My name is Scott Ouderkirk and I live in the 1000 Islands area of New York, next to the St Lawrence River and the border of Canada. We struggle with harsh weather conditions for a good portion of

This riff on a Bloody Mary is packed full of garden vegetables and tastes super bright and fresh. Feel free to get a little crazy with the garnishes (pickles, bacon, celery, olives, cocktail onions, etc.) The glass pictured can be purchased HERE Rabbit Food 2 oz vodka 4 dashes hot sauce (or more to taste) 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce 1 oz fresh lime juice .5 oz fresh lemon juice 3 large celery stalks 1 cucumber 10 spinach leaves celery salt for rim lime wedge Blend celery, s

This sake toddy is super simple to make and very warming. I like to use a Jumai Ginjo sake, which is filtered and has no distilled alcohol added. You can buy the glass pictured HERE Sake Toddy 2 oz Junmai Ginjo sake 3 oz hot water 5 clove studs 1lemon slice Combine sake and hot water. Push cloves into lemon slice Float lemon slice on top Ingredients used: MomoKawa Diamond Junmai Ginjo sake #riverroadfarmcocktail #riverroadfarm #stlawrenceriver #glassgoatcocktail #glassgoat #s

The only downside of having Wood Fired Pizza Saturdays is having "Oh wow I ate too much" Sundays and Mondays. This refreshing green tea drink is a perfect calming detox to get you through! Eucalyptus Mint Green Tea 4-5 mint leaves 1 tsp dried eucalyptus leaves (found at specialty or health food stores) 1 tbsp Gunpowder green tea lime zest Combine mint, eucalyptus, and green tea in a tea infuser in a glass. Start with a little hot water (just enough to cover the infuser) to ge

We're so excited to announce Glass Goat Yoga this summer at River Road Farm. The dates will be 07/09/2017, 08/13/2017, & 08/20/2017. The cost is $25.00/person and includes a t-shirt with artwork by Scott Ouderkirk, and designed by Ken Gifford. Email contact@GlassGoat.com to receive instructions for reserving your spot! The classes will be taught by Certified Yoga Instructor Alicia Mitchelson. Here are some thoughts from Alicia on what her yoga practice means to her, and the b

We're super excited to announce that we will be hosting Goat Yoga here at River Road Farm this summer! The classes will be taught by Alicia Mitchelson, and will occur three times on Sundays through July & August. Our goat yoga classes will take place in our goat pasture at River Road Farm, with a view of the St. Lawrence River, among our Nigerian Dwarf goats. Nigerian Dwarves are super friendly goats, and ours in particular love people and are really social. They're smaller t

This recipe is just the same as simple syrup, except with honey instead of sugar. Honey Syrup 1 cup honey 1 cup water Simmer the honey and water in a saucepan over low-medium heat until the honey is fully dissolved. Let cool to room temperature. Store in the refrigerator. Honey Syrup Recipes: Black Tea Bourbon Milk & Honey #honeyrecipe #riverroadfarm #glassgoat #glassgoatrecipes #1000islands #stlawrenceriver

With all the cold winter weather lately, we needed a little bit of a pick-me-up and reminder of sunny days spent on the river. The only wintery thing about this drink is the snowball used in place of crushed ice! The dragonfly glasses are another reminder of warm summer days and can be purchased on our Etsy store HERE Snowball Mint Julep 8-10 mint leaves, plus extra sprig for garnish .75 oz simple syrup (equal parts sugar & water dissolved over heat and allowed to cool) .5 oz

We post a lot of images of our work on facebook, instagram, and our blog. We print the images on note cards, posters, and in books. Our work comes in different sizes and shapes which leads to issues for us in lighting and backgrounds. Sometimes we have to come up with creative ideas so that we can manage to get the effects we want. This image shows Kenny trying shooting our new mermaid piece, which has yet to be named. It is a rather large circle, quite a bit bigger than any

We have been spending too much time stoking the wood stove in the Glass Goat studio, so a couple of days ago Kenny and I made our way to Omar, NY to visit the studio of 1000 Islands artist Will Salisbury. You may know him as the man who created the giant crows that you can see on the side of NYS Rt. 81 southbound just past the Alexandria Bay entrance. Will is a legend on and around the St Lawrence River and I felt meeting him was an important component of Kenny's (and my) ong

Scott spent the day working with Lorraine Austin at Snake Oil Glassworks in Skaeateles, NY to make the glass blocks we use to make our Bee Blocks. Here is the process. Pouring the hot glass into the mold Heating the glass block in the mold We then bring the glass blocks back to Glass Goat, where we add the bee outline and hand matte each one to give it a custom, one of a kind look. Here is a picture of the finished product. (Buy it HERE) Check out Snake Oil Glassworks HERE Th