Last spring we bought a Romney-Hampton cross wether. Our intention was to let him graze on our pasture all season and then bring him to the butcher in early winter, after having taken care of processing our beef, pork, and poultry. We picked a dark colored lamb because we also knew that we wanted to [...]
We made the turducken. It was really delicious, moist, tender, seasoned perfectly.
Here are the basic instructions:
1. Raise a turkey, duck, and chicken. Pictured below are three of our birds that we got from the hatchery this spring, a standard bronze tom turkey, Rhode Island Red rooster, and White Peking drake. All of these animals were [...]
We are coming up on the one-year anniversary of moving to our farm (we closed on 10/31/08). In order to celebrate this amazing year, we are hosting a harvest potluck party. We have invited friends, neighbors, and all of our customers to come and share in our amazing harvest. Both our beef and our pork [...]
Today was to-the-butcher day for our pigs. We’ve enjoyed their presence, but as Fall sets in and Winter approaches, their time was near. We’ve hear horror stories about loading animals onto trailers for their trip to the butcher. Last spring, when we brought out first set of pigs in, we parked the trailer in the [...]
In the US, rabbits are primarily thought of as pets, not as a food source. In the rest of the world, rabbits make up a large portion of the meat consumed by people. They are very easy to raise, can subsist on garden scraps and trimmings, and breed like, well, rabbits. Additionally, their manure is [...]
I know I have said it many times before, but the reason we made the big leap to start our own homestead was to raise the absolute best food possible. That is because we both really love to cook and eat and so do our kids. As much as we have loved buying from many [...]
If you like to make bread, or if you have always been wanting to make bread but didn’t think you had the time, skills, etc, then you MUST get your hands on a copy of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. Here is a link to their blog [...]
We were finally able to contain the cows. After a week in their electrified paddock, the cows were moved to their permanent summer home. Mike and Jackson put up electric fence running from the back corner of the paddock, around behind the bee hives, and then over to join our fence on the other side [...]
Here are some of the delicious eats we have been feasting on the last week. All of the foods in the list were made with all of the main ingredients coming from our farm (essentially all of the meat and veg).
Chinese cabbage salad and Roasted new potatoes
Chicken gravy on toast, Fried chicken livers, and Stir fried kale
Fried chicken [...]
Friday morning was spent putting away all four pigs in the rain and reinforcing their stalls. The big pigs escaped easily as we did not do a good job of securing their fencing when we moved them last week. The little pigs were loose in the barn, bothering our poor turkeys who are in the [...]