Turkeys Arrive on the Farm
This week we started our first batch of turkeys for the season. We’ll raise two more batches later during the summer. They’re a lot of fun at this newly-hatched stage, just fuzzy bundles of kinetic energy. Enjoy!
Beginning of the Grazing Season
We find these spring days to be rejuvenating as the farm is coming into its vibrancy. I hope you all can find time to spend outdoors, enjoying the beauty of this transformative season.
New eCommerce Website For WDF
This week we migrated the farm’s online sales to a new eCommerce platform. This has felt like a never-ending project, so it was a relief to have the opportunity to switch things over. Planning started last spring, and it seems like every spare moment this winter and spring has been dedicated to the website project. …
Reflections on Avian Influenza
Several people have asked about the ongoing 2022 outbreak of Avian Influenza, so this is something I want to discuss, both as it affects the larger agricultural system and as it affects us here on our tiny little corner of the poultry world. I’ll start with an overview of the disease, but if you already …
Recipe: Turkey Cottage Pie with Mushrooms, Parsnips, and a Celery Root-Goat Cheese Crust
This week Katy turned toward country-style cooking, and made a meat pie with our organic, pasture raised ground turkey. I think the addition of goat cheese was an inspired choice. Enjoy!
Chicks to the Brooder
This week marks the beginning of chicken season, with new chicks hatching and going into the brooder. I created this video to explain the basics of our brooder setup and to discuss how we get the chicks off to a good start. During the next few weeks we’ll keep a close watch on the little …
Welcoming a New Livestock Guardian Dog to the Farm
On Monday we were pleased to bring another Maremma livestock guardian dog to work on the farm. It is fascinating to consider the centuries of careful breeding by shepherds in the mountains of Italy culminating in such a dog. Maremmas are large, imposing dogs capable of scrapping with bears, wolves, and mountain lions. But they …
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Recipe: Turkey Tender Parmesan with Lemon Caper Sauce
This time we’re riffing on chicken parmesan, but using our turkey breast tenders (sometimes called turkey tenderloins). Many chicken breast recipes can be reworked without much adaptation to substitute turkey tenders, and it helps in meal planning to know that a turkey tender is approximately the same size as a chicken breast. This particular recipe …
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Whole Chickens and the Acorn Squash Problem
Whole chicken started it all. The first product we sold from our farm was a whole chicken. A few months later we added half pigs, and the next fall we had half beef options. It was simple. We didn’t need to track complicated inventories. We had a nice, straightforward price list. All the chicken was …
Recipe: Tandoori Spice Roasted Turkey Drumstick with Turmeric Rice and Lime Yogurt Sauce
This recipe was developed with our turkey drumsticks in mind. Turkey legs are mighty and meaty, and this tandoori-style treatment is a great fit. The complex interplay of spices and textures makes for an outstanding dinner. It’s great if you can buy whole spices and grind them yourself, but if not, natural food co-ops often …
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