Ever since our first batch of Elderberry Apple Syrup in early 2016, we've been working towards consistently delivering a top-notch elderberry product. Something a factory could not duplicate. Something simple, versatile, and unique. Maybe something a very determined home-cook-farmer could match, but how many of us grow elderberries, apples, and...

Small, classy but not stuffy, colorful, interesting -- that's how we decorate our evergreens on the farm -- and here is an easy idea to add some Fat Stone Farm bling to your trees and wreaths this holiday. I think these cute bottles match almost any style, but they are...

Elderberry is a popular berry (for good reasons), and there are lots of elderberry products out there. Some have even been tested and shown they are not elderberries at all, or that the content of elderberry is overstated on the label. This is not an advertisement for our own Elderberry...

Someone asked me this the other day, after reading through our customer reviews, "You have great customer reviews. Are they real?" Yes, they are 'real.' Every customer who purchases on our website receives a request to submit a review. After they submit a review, they receive a 10% coupon code....

If you are new to elderberry, welcome! There's more to read in "Part 1" of Elderberry Lore - and great information here in "Part 2." While elderberry (Sambucus nigra spp. canadensis) gets a lot of attention in the winter time, there are plenty of ways to use it all year...

My kids came home after an outing with two half-pound gummy bears, made half-way around the world, and with the first ingredient something I had never heard of: maltose syrup. I think the total sugars in the entire bear was something like 120g. It was a great opportunity to talk...

Fat Stone Farm Announces All-New Office Digs Creatively Converted Chicken Coop to Help Propel Elderberry Syrup Business We have a second office location as a new addition to the company! The space, which is a fully renovated 2nd story chicken coop that overlooks the shipping center, solves our need for additional space to share...

Is this safe for my children? What is the dosage? How much do I ‘take’ every day? Can I ‘take’ this year-round? These are some common questions that our customers have about our Elderberry products. We can’t answer these, exactly. Here’s why: Our elder products are food, not drugs, according...

The day starts early at our farm and raising two boys means a bigger effort in the morning to get everyone ready for the day ahead.  So, how bad is it to short-change breakfast? We asked a medical doctor to review the scientific literature and tell us what science has...

I made some time the other day to get back to a project that had been waiting for a few years. Truth be told, the moths forced me. Taking a break from bottling maple syrup, elderberry apple shots, and apple ginger syrup, and growing our own food, isn't easy, but...

The modern way to get Fat Stone Farm products involves high-speed internet connections, e-commerce transactions, and a few UPS trucks (sorry, we're not open to the public) -- but our place here in Lyme, Connecticut is founded on ancient bedrock, Native American footprints, old farm paths, and lots of heritage...

This maple season we were fortunate to have help in the sugar shack from our neighbor, and fellow sugar maker, Sam Coxe. One late night watching the sap boil into syrup, he penned the following....   A sweet treat forged from blood and sweat and tears and tree blood and...

Are you excited about dyeing Easter eggs, admiring their perfect oval shapes and heart-warming spring colors, celebrating the renewal that Easter brings, but don't want to use synthetic food coloring? Are you one of those people who actually EAT their Easter Eggs and want a healthy egg? I found a...

The Discovery of Maple Syrup Maple syrup, or more specifically, maple sugar, was originally made by multiple Native American tribes in the northern United States and Canada for sustenance and taste. The actual moment of discovery is unknown, but there are many origin stories and folktales that give us insight...

Did you know humans have been eating elderberries on this continent for at least 10,000 years? And even longer elsewhere -- paleobotanists in southwestern China have unearthed seed parts of an Elder species that date back to the Pliocene era, which is estimated to be at least 2.6 million years...