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- good quote
- so what does 15 thousand dollars look like?
- mustering chutzpah
- Open Farm Day - one of my favorite days of the year
- sunshine you can smell
- an afternoon in the berry patch
- high summer
- Father Daughter Bonding - again
- soapbox - how much is fair? reasonable? honest?
- 100 bales in several more to go!
- soapbox - ingredients vs. ingredients
- lesson learned
- serious humidity
- pampered poultry
- Meet Sawyer and Huck
- ba ba black sheep have you any wool?
- to the lake!!
- that's me...
- soapbox - independence and freedom
- the harvest has begun
- a pool for the pigs
- a somber evening...
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I think that would be the hardest part of raising the chickens for meat. Do you have someplace local to send them, or was this an endeavor you were going to take on yourself?
ReplyDeleteI took them to a local place, I know I couldn't have done that.... caring for them is one thing, bringing them there another but actually doing the dreaded deed entirely another. And yes, it was hard but having my husband tell me how much he appreciates what I did made it worth while. I hope they had a good life and only one bad day...
ReplyDeleteI don't say it often enough, but I really do appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteI think from the hints you give us here on your blog you had some of the happiest little broilers around. How many would ever get to go outside and garden? I hope to be brave enough to try this one day, but don't think I could be the person at the end ever.
ReplyDeleteI've done a fair bit of research; reading, watching, talking and more reading, about the conventional food system and what goes on in it; and I'll say that if more people really knew they would be OUTRAGED. One of two things would happen either they would start growing their own (or buying from a real farmer with a face, not a multinational conglomerate) or they would DEMAND action! Michael Pollan said it best when he stated "cheap food is an illusion." As always, there will still be those that just don't care but I'm encouraged by the tide starting to turn as people get educated. There's a huge groundswell that is coming on many fronts and I'm so excited about it. As a vegetarian this is something I never ever thought I'd want to do much less actually ba able to do and now cannot imagine not doing. I know you can do it too. This I am certain.
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