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Learning the ropes
This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to learn about processing chickens with some good friends of mine, the Hammonds. They operate My Dad & Me Family Farm a few miles away where they raise;...
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Power Steer – New York Times
So what’s the big deal with red meat? For over a decade now, we’ve been hearing more and more caution about consuming beef. Why? Beef consumption has been linked with the rising statistics in cardiac...
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Then there was one… Rooster that is.
When we first moved onto the farm, we were given four young chickens. Three Rhode Island Red hens and a rooster of some other breed. We named the rooster Max, one of the Rhode Island Reds turned out to...
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Got a PUStache? The truth about PUS in pasteurized milk – YouTube
How can you argue with this? I was raised on stories of “a land flowing with MILK and honey.” What if Sunday school classes, in an effort to be factual changed it to “PUS and honey”? Just doesn’t...
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Before you grill it, You gotta kill it.
Or get someone else like me to do it. We processed the broiler chickens we raised from day old chicks that we got from S & G Poultry this past Saturday. We raise our chickens on the pasture where...
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How antibiotic use fuels weight gain in animals and obesity in people | The...
Animal feed is the number one distributor for pharmaceuticals. The original intent in feeding antibiotics to animals was to ward off disease and infection but the side effect is that the animals gain...
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A Battle of Biblical Proportions
Everyone; Christian, Jew or not, I believe is pretty familiar with the story of David versus Goliath. If you aren’t, here’s the condensed version and you can read the full version in 1 Samuel 17. The...
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The Time to End Farm Subsidies is Now
I try to avoid discussing and mixing politics with my posts but frankly it’s impossible when government is so heavily involved in agriculture. The very existence of government subsidies (read tax...
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