A popular and insistent narrative is that we need more herbicides for humanity to survive. The argument is framed in predictable ways. Typically we are presented first with grim statistics and the utilitarian moral argument that the world will run out of food for a growing population unless we radically increase our dependence on crops […]
In lieu of writing the normal weekly farm blog post, I’ll just allow some pictures to speak for the activities this week at WDF. There’s a lot going on right now between the cattle, chickens, gardening, construction, and repairs. And repairs. And repairs.
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We’re bringing Harry into the chicken raising operation as it was getting to be too much for AJ to handle on his own. The division of labor will be for Harry to take the newly hatched chicks through their brooder phase while AJ manages the chickens once they are old enough to go out to
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Remember I mentioned a few months ago that we were working on Organic Certification? Well… We’ve made it over the finish line and have the Organic Certificate in hand. The inspection went smoothly and this week we received our certificate. Because we’ve always been using Certified Organic feed and we’ve paid attention to Organic regulations,
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Sometimes I go into “test kitchen” mode and crank out batch after batch of the same recipe, trying to get things just right. I’ve been focusing recently on chicken fat and chicken skin. The subject of eating fat cleaves my audience apart. I get specific inquiries from people looking for lean meat and from others
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