Dark Days Challenge: Prelude

After at least one (maybe two?) years of thinking about it, and deciding it would be too hard, and wishing I had done it, I’ve finally signed up for Laura at Urban Hennery’s Dark Days Challenge. From November 15 – March 31, eat one meal a week that’s as SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, Ethical) [...]

Inadvertent 100% homegrown meal

… with the obvious exceptions of the wine, salt, pepper.

Chicken: grown by us. Beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, roasting under the chicken: grown by us. Butter for basting: made by us from cream from organic, happy Washington pastured cows from Fresh Breeze. Stock for helping veggies cook: made by us from [...]

Sold out!

We just got home from the farmers’ market, where we sold out of chickens — hooray! So, no more reservations. I’ll be taking down the signup form.

However, we have left ourselves a buffer of 25 chickens for which we are *not* taking reservations, in case something happens (illness, predators, they get banged [...]

Nuggets

The chicks that were imminent in the last post are now here and huge and out on pasture and more than half of them are claimed already. Yay! So — if you want organic pastured chickens and you’re in the Seattle area and can come pick them up during the first week of November, [...]