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The 2009 Chicken Season in now over

Saturday was chicken processing day – Sunday was a day of “rest”.

All said and done – a crew of 7 people processed 76 chickens in a total “heads down” work time of about 2 hours…  not the fastest processing on the planet – but a steady stream of chickens…  and a ton of fun.

A very [...]

How to build a homemade chicken scalder – Part 2

Conclusion to Part 1 – here

When we last spoke about the chicken scalder we discussed the components and some of the basics in assembly.  Here are several of the final photos, pointers and decisions we made.

Several people on the web that have built their own scalders have chosen to fill the bottom with concrete to [...]

A Small Harvest

It’s a small harvest – but fresh veggies from the garden none the less.  Actually – It’s really the by-product of highly stressed tomato plants making the fruit that was set before the 9″ of rain at the end of June and beginning of July that were forced into ripening.  But we will take them. [...]

You are what you eat

Obviously – I’m a big fan of walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts…  it’s a bad joke (ahh – boooo)

The point here is, science is learning every day that what we eat and how it’s raised has very significant implications to our own health.  If you want a real example of this – rush to the store this [...]