A good start

I hope to hear more stories like this: West Virginia golf course to become organic farm!

Pastured poultry: So good for the soil, you can see it from space.

This year, our poultry is pastured at Day Road/Suyematsu/Bentryn Farm, home of Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery, Laughing Crow Farm, Butler Green Farms, and more. Betsey at Laughing Crow offered us a fallow field for the chickens, and we (and they) were happy to take her up on it, as it was filled with [...]

Sheeps!

Hey look what we got!

These shy little guys (who won’t move out from behind the crate so I can take a good picture) are Soay sheep, a not-very-domesticated breed from Scotland. They are small, and their tails are short so they don’t need to be docked, and they don’t need to [...]

Time to get busy planning

Apparently. The Territorial Seed catalogs arrived today!

Customer feedback

Posted with permission …

Subj: Just wanted to say Yummmmm!

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

And from someone else:

Subj: extra chicken?

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

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 [...]

2009 Senate Bill 5350 (Special permit provisions for poultry slaughter, preparation, and care) passes!

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. [...]