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Rotten Eggs

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Here’s a great way to start your morning breakfast… some tainted eggs. The article on CNN – here – talks about the potential of a salmonella outbreak in the Wright County egg line. Now – that sounds quaint… like a small time egg producer in Wright County had an [...]

The process of chicken processing

Just a two short weeks ago we processed our first flock of pasture raised chickens this year.  All said and done at 7 weeks our Cornish Cross birds that went out on pasture at 3 weeks of age averaged about 4.5# and we did 150-ish birds…  so doing that math that’s over a 1/4 of a [...]

Are you the chicken people?

“Are you the chicken people?”

Do you know how many times conversations in our life take this turn now?  It seems just about everywhere Kelli and I go, someone, somehow knows about our vegetable CSA and pasture raised chickens…  and the rest of the conversation leaves politics, world events, science, whatever…  and moves swiftly into chicken talk.  It seems [...]

Last CSA share of July

In this week’s share:

Summer's Bounty!

A head of a fresh cabbage – this variety is called Early Green.  Nice compact heads full of taste.  If you don’t want to use it all at once – they store really well if you cut them in half and store the unused half wrapped in plastic in your crisper [...]