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 [...]
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“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 [...] 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 [...] Fresh picked garlic starting to dry Although this might be giving away a little bit of future CSA shares – that’s OK. Last fall, before we had fully decided on going the CSA route this year for produce production, we decided to make our garlic plantings smaller than in the past – but to try several [...] |
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