Dave Perozzi

Cutting Down An Old Apple Tree: Looking Back Into History, And Maybe Looking Forward.

With regret I revved the chainsaw and began removing branches from the old apple tree. A minor heartache always accompanies the elimination of tree, especially one that carries the story of long-gone farmers in its body. I am sad to see the wizened old apple tree reduced to firewood and wood chips for the garden […]

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Solving the Meat vs No Meat Debate Conclusively. Yeah, Right.

I’ve been working an experiment at home with my youngest son, Harry. We’ve been studying propaganda. I’d like him to learn to find his way through complicated issues, being able to see the factors that influence the way agendas influence the spread of information and disinformation. He needs to learn more about the ways in

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Pasture raised, certified organic turkeys grazing at Wrong Direction Farm in New York.

Wrong Direction Farm Turkeys In a Story On allrecipes.com

This week I was able to make a contribution to a reporting piece regarding the supply-chain side of Thanksgiving turkey sales, published over at allrecipes.com. Check it out here. It was fun to have a part in the discussion from the small farmer perspective, since all the other voices were from much larger organizations. I

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Burdock In Autumn: Thoughts On Annoying Plants and Regenerative Farming

Early fall is the time of year when our cattle wear crowns of burdock. Great big gaudy gobs of it. As I mentioned recently, grass fed beef is a bit of misnomer, since we’re actually aiming for a more diverse diet consisting grasses and a wide variety of leafy pasture plants that aren’t technically grasses. Burdock

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Pasture Raised, Certified Organic Thanksgiving Turkeys Available

Good news! We now have our whole turkeys listed for sale. Certified organic and pasture raised, these are the turkeys you are looking for. We have a wide variety of sizes available for you. Every year we start our turkey planning for the next year just a few weeks after Thanksgiving. Or rather I like

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Important Design Features In Our Shelters for Pasture Raised Chickens

I took a few minutes with the chickens out in the pasture to highlight some of the design features and considerations we incorporated into our custom made shelters. At Wrong Direction Farm we’ve always been driven by both personal preference and economic necessity to be do-it-yourselfers. About six years ago we realized we needed to

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