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This was the title of course offered down the street from us by the local parks and rec department. The joke, of course, is that we’d just ordered 15 muscovy ducks with the express purpose of making our own cassoulet. I now provide you with the timeline of the Official Dropstone Farms, LLC Quick [...] Well, not really. As Lauren posted earlier, we’re doing fairly well at reducing the contents of our still-very-full chest freezers. And, with the departure (ascension? transfiguration?) of orange and blue I’ve renewed my interest in curing my own charcuterie. And it turns out there’s a blog challenge underway. As is typical, I’m [...] 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 [...] Like a lot of farmers, we don’t name the poultry or other livestock. They’re wonderful creatures and we love them very much a desire nothing more than the happiest possible life until we kill and eat them. This requires some mental gymnastics for city folk and former vegetarians. One thing I’ve found very interesting [...] My duck. In a box. It’s official. Oscar and I are the only males left on the farm. And I’m the only one that’s, for the time being, unfixed. Mr. Guy went to his new home today, ingloriously swaddled in cardboard. He was not pleased with that but I think he’ll enjoy [...] Good news, everyone! Senate Bill 5350 passed in Washington state. What does this mean? Simple. Previously, it was legal to process chickens on-farm and sell them directly to customers on the farm premises without hiring a WSDA approved slaughterhouse. Thanks to the passage of this bill, the exemption is now extended to all poultry. [...] I have been taken to task by more than one person for the lack of duckling photos. So here are some ducklings! Most of the photos have notes in Flickr — click through and mouse over the photo to see them. This little girl arrived with her egg tooth still attached, [...] My camera is obviously not intended as a video camera, so the video quality is not great — at times the chickens appear to be made of lasers, zooming around very quickly — but the sound is pretty much exactly what we live with, all the time. (For treats they are getting [...] Can we dry overripe shelling peas, which are too starchy to eat fresh, and use them like split peas? Is there any use for the fibrous but still fresh and juicy shells of the peas that did not get overripe? Make stock maybe? If one boy duck is picking on the other boy [...] It was 70° here on Saturday, which is approximately late June weather, rarely in mid-April. It was also the first day of the Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market, so we rode our bikes into town in the morning and did some shopping. I had my bike all tricked out with my removable wicker basket on [...] Just yesterday, we were telling Garth’s mom what a relief it was that the chickens are old enough to require less work now. We have elevated their foods and waters off the ground a bit, so they don’t scratch so much pine shavings into them. We have given them a bit of dowel to [...] |
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