Short Thanksgiving/harvest roundup

Too many delicious meals in my blogs today to round up, but I will write ours up soon.

Novella Carpenter’s non-published op ed on Thanksgiving. Novella is smart and awesome and bad-ass. Thank you, turkeys.

Via Kimberly, a fantastic poem:

Grace Rafael Jesús González

Thanks & blessing be to the Sun & the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, and you’re welcome, Ms. Gregoire.

Thanks for Farming

Fortunately, she doesn’t specify successful or competent farmers so we qualify.

Dark Days Week 1: Roast duck, pan-roasted potatoes with leeks, and sautéed kale with garlic

So we grew some ducks starting in August, and since the day we placed the order I have been talking about how I have never cooked duck. Today I started learning to cook duck.

This engaged most (but not all) of our cast iron pans. Potatoes & leeks in the front; kale [...]

Dark Days Challenge: Intro

So, as previously mentioned, we are aiming to do the 3rd Annual Dark Days of Winter Eat Local Challenge (!) aka Dark Days. The challenge is to eat one meal per week that’s as Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical as possible — for the whole winter pretty much! November 15 to March 31.

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Customer feedback

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We had roast chicken Sunday night and it was delicious. Thanks for providing this great service (and product) for our family.

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Hi, I got one of your recently slaughtered chickens — roasted it and [...]

On broilers, or, Thank you, chickens

So, we really dropped the ball on keeping everyone updated on the broiler chickens via the website. We really intended to, but it turned out that 150 chickens took up kind of a lot of time. So, here’s a retrospective of their lives …

The chickens (affectionately known as nuggets) moved to pasture [...]