October 2009
Monthly Archive
Dark Days Challenge: Prelude
Posted by Lauren on 30 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: deliciousness, local food, seasonal, washington, winter
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) as possible, then blog it. Laura will round them up weekly and we can all see what everyone else is eating, and get inspiration from each other. It’s extra hard in the winter, though it helps if you have been busy preserving all winter. We didn’t can nearly as much as I had hoped — it was a tough season in many ways, but we’re almost through — but there’s a lot of good stuff in the freezer and much still in the ground, plus our two easily-accessible year-round farmers’ markets to supply what we didn’t manage to grow ourselves (Brussels sprouts, parsnips).
Anyway — join us in the Dark Days Challenge! Sign up here, and let me know so we can commiserate in, like, February.
Inadvertent 100% homegrown meal
Posted by Lauren on 16 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Good News Everyone!, beets, carrots, comestibles, deliciousness, local food, pictures, potatoes
… 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 another chicken we grew.
It wasn’t even on purpose!
PS Roasted chicken + root veggies = it must be fall. Also, it’s been raining ALL DAY.
Sold out!
Posted by Lauren on 10 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: chickens, deliciousness, farm updates
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 up in processing, etc). So it is quite likely that we will have approximately 25 more chickens unclaimed, so I’ll start a waiting list. Comment here or email us at farmers @ dropstonefarms . com to get on the waiting list. We also might have what basically amounts to factory seconds, if there are broken wings or legs as a result of processing, so we may have a few available at a lower price.
Let us know if you’re interested and we’ll give you a call when the time comes!
Thanks to everyone who ordered. We’re really excited about these birds and are glad to be able to provide them for you all.
Nuggets
Posted by Lauren on 06 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Bainbridge, chickens, deliciousness, farm updates
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, learn more here, and order here.