Using Dehydrated Sourdough Starter

If you’ve been curious about making sourdough at home, the good news is you don’t have to grow a starter from scratch. T...

The Surprising Truth About Flour (And Why It Matters for Your Family)

Somehow, I ended up on a farm trying to build an online farmers market. This is all brand new to us. Neither MariKate or...

The Egg Bite Strategy: How a Simple Idea Could Change Everything for Kakadoodle

If you’ve been following along with us on social media, you know we’ve been having a lot of fun with our newest experime...

Why We’re Not Delivering Fall Decor This Year (Even Though It’s Tempting)

This week I was out picking up a load of corn stalks and straw bales for the fall. For the past couple of years, we’ve d...

Egg Labels: From Cage-Free to Regenerative

A few years ago, before we moved onto a farm and started this crazy adventure of trying to get chemical-free food to peo...

Why Most Local Food Startups Fail

We’ve watched a lot of companies with similar ideas crash and burn. Good ideas. Talented teams. Millions raised. Still,...

Cracking the Mystery of Orange Yolks

Many years ago, before kids and before Kakadoodle, MariKate and I took a trip through Spain. Oddly enough, one of the mo...

The True Cost of Food

Last week we talked about why certain cuts from Kakadoodle can cost more than what you might see at Whole Foods. That p...

Why Is It So Much More Expensive?

We recently started handing out a Kakadoodle “menu” at the farmers market. It’s basically a one-pager that explains the...

The New Local Food Consumer

One of the things we’re most excited about at Kakadoodle is something we’re just beginning to understand: **we’re attrac...

Fear of Being Irrational

Some days, I wonder if I’ve lost my mind. We’ve bet almost everything - our finances, our time, our energy - on this wil...

Scale or Die

I had a great conversation with a customer at the farmers market the other day. One of the things I love most about the...