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We have about 30 chickens left to sell. They were processed today, so with the WSDA’s 48-hour pickup requirement, we can make them available for pickup on the farm at the Day Road Farmstand on Monday during the day. Six dollars per pound. They will be a mix of sizes, some small fryers and [...] Some hay piled up and it looks like some critters have moved in. Any thoughts on how to get rid of them? Lardo on day one, mocetta on day 18 The lardo has finished curing and has been hung to dry. The mocetta is on day eighteen and is doing very well. There’s either salt or good mold on the outside of it. Look! I actually weighed it this time! 574 grams of pastured [...] That’s not actually true, it’s back fat. However, I once saw one of those godawful women’s magazines at a grocery store and, after reading the headline “Cure your belly fat now!,” was honestly confused that they weren’t talking about bacon. As I alluded to earlier, there’s a little over a pound of fatback [...] These California farmers are giving up their land and quitting farming. Most of the reasons they cite for getting out of farming could be things we are saying next year or the year after, or the year after that. Think hard about your food and your sources, and what it takes to support [...] Since we sold out for our last batch of the year, we’ve gotten a few inquiries about other farms who might have chickens like ours. I thought I’d round up all our recommendations. Some, but not all, are raising the slower-growing, more chickeny breed we prefer, or other breeds alternative to the fast-growing Cornish [...] Subj: NEED MORE CHICKEN!!! [We] are in ecstasy over here, post roast chicken. Do you have any more we could purchase? Also, could we sign up to order more now? How many can we reserve? We LOVE your chicken!!! On being told the 48-hour deadline has passed so we can’t legally give them [...] Our second batch of chickens for this year went smoothly last weekend. It was a small batch and we had some enthusiastic helpers. I even had enough energy to go to the show (the New Pornographers) that I had tickets to in Seattle that same night! Two things that may or may not [...] Our first batch of chickens this year went pretty well. We didn’t lose very many of them, and they had a good and uneventful life. Processing went smoothly too, once we resolved three different electrical issues (wrong extension cord = another trip to Lumberman’s; tankless hot water heater not working = trip home for [...] 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 [...] Our locally-raised pig was slaughtered a couple of weeks ago and was finally butchered and ready to pick up last Saturday. Yay! We put everything into the freezer but kept a package of 2 pork chops out for dinner that night, and grilled them up with my favorite not-very-local marinade — red wine vinegar, [...] 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 [...] |
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