Our Thanksgiving pasture raised turkeys are ready! You may place your order for delivery right away or you may choose a date closer to Thanksgiving at checkout. To guarantee you get the size turkey you want, I’d recommend putting in your order soon. Besides whole birds, we also have boneless turkey breasts and breast tenderloins. […]
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I’ve been thinking this week about Perdue’s recent acquisition of Pasturebird, the largest pasture raised chicken farm in the country. I had a feeling this was coming, but I only heard confirmation recently. Pasturebird was the real deal, a large scale independent farm that took “pasture raised” as a serious and important aspect of everything
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Five years ago I wrote about digging 1500 feet of trench for buried water lines. It turns out that on the same exact day this year I was at it again, only this time we placed 1800 feet of pipe, five hydrants, and roughed in the plumbing for one water trough. I’d gladly take credit
We have been enjoying the beautiful early fall days. While installing new tin siding on the back of the shed I have been listening to a book by one of my favorite authors, Wallace Stegner. He must have understood my joy at being outdoors these days when he wrote this appropriate line: “It is such
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Visitors to the farm are sometimes surprised to learn that we feed our chickens and turkeys rocks. In the case of turkeys, a lot of rocks. Many birds use rocks as a digestive aid. This arrangement makes sense because birds lack teeth for chewing, so anything that can’t be broken down by pecking or clawing
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Once when selling at a farmers’ market, a customer told me she felt particularly conflicted about purchasing beef because of the water it wastes. Indeed, depending on the source of your facts, you can find shocking statistics stating that beef wastes between 500 and 2500 gallons per pound of meat, so it isn’t surprising that
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There is a curious ineluctability that simple solutions are difficult to achieve. After four years of tinkering, I am finally satisfied that I have a working solar water pumping station. Most of the farm is downhill from our pond, so we can siphon our water to the cattle and the poultry without using any power.
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Sharing two new wildlife sightings. Actually there was a third, a striking godwit out by the pond, but the photos were too fuzzy. Yogi Berra was right, “You can observe a lot by just watching.”
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One of the persistent challenges for our type of farming is maintaining some organization in the chaos of tools and supplies. Everyone who knows me knows that I’ve never been good at keeping things tidy. My workshop is a disaster. But I’ve made a baby step of improvement, and just that incremental difference makes me feel like
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