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On the Difficulty of Finding Pastured Animal Products

Mr. Homegrown
Animals
21 Comments
...ckens would not meet these standards–my yard is simply not big enough and my hens are in a coop/run arrangement all day. But I was hoping for a higher standard from this non-profit rating organization–specifically eggs and meat from a farm that looks like the one in the picture above. I’m hugely disappointed. And I wish I could be more specific but I don’t want to end up in a lawsuit. Let’s just say that at this poin...

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The Perfect Chicken Coop?

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
7 Comments
...an hang a feeder in the space under the hen house to keep their feed dry. The run is tall enough to stand in. You can put an access door to the nesting box from the outside so you don’t have to go in the coop to collect eggs. It has a roof over the run to keep your chickens dry. It’s the basic form I used for our coop with a few refinements–I ran hardware cloth under run to keep out burrowing predators. I also extended the run...

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More Fun With Food Preservation

Homegrown Neighbor
Food, Recipes
5 Comments
...ates for preservation. The kale I washed, roughly chopped, blanched in boiling water and then let it cool for a few minutes before putting it into freezer bags. Quick and simple. Now I can add the frozen kale to pasta dishes, eggs, soups, stir fry or many other dishes. Then I diced the celery, bell peppers and carrots and a few cloves of garlic. I snacked on some slices of bell pepper along the way. Next I placed the mixture into ice cube tray...

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One way to salvage stale bread

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
8 Comments
...read salad” or “panzanella.” This is basically just pieces of stale bread tossed with basil and tomatoes, lots of olive oil and a touch of vinegar. It can be jazzed up with cucumbers or olives or hard boiled eggs or whatever is on hand. Also, I just saw this recipe for cold bread and tomato soup at the Awl. Haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting. What do you do with your stale bread?...

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Plymouth Rock Monthly

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
4 Comments
...ere please get around to scanning and putting online the Plymouth Rock Monthly? All I can find are images of two covers lifted off of ebay. The February 1925 issue, at right, promises articles on, “Selecting and Packing Eggs for Hatching”, a poetically titled essay, “The Things We Leave Undone”, “Theory and Practice in Breeding Barred Color”, “White Plymouth Rocks”, “The Embargo on PoultryR...

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Revolutionary Rusks

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
3 Comments
...but we use all-purpose whole wheat flour and then add 2 tablespoons wheat germ and 2 tablespoons ground flax seed)1/3 cup sugar½ teaspoon salt2 teaspoons baking powder1 cup chopped almonds Wet ingredients½ cup melted butter2 eggs¾ cup buttermilk2 teaspoons pure vanilla2 teaspoons pure almond extract preheat oven to 400ºIn a large mixing bowl, mix the dry ingredientsIn another mixing bowl, mix the wet ingredientsPour the wet into the dry and stir...

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Saturday’s Quote: Spring

Mrs. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
3 Comments
  NOTHING is so beautiful as spring—      When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;      Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring    The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;           The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush      The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush    With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.         &...

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Interview With Apartment Gardener Helen Kim

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Herbs
1 Comment
...ions whenever I make hot soup with noodles. And, for awhile there, I was making pasta with Swiss chard and mushrooms (with garlic and a bit of butter) just about every day! The mustard greens I like to have with my scrambled eggs… or, of course, for some pizzazz in any salad. I pounded the heck out of some dried stevia yesterday morning and added it to my coffee… and was surprised at how sweet it was. The mint is great to slice up an...

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How to Raise Poultry

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
6 Comments
One of the great tragedies of modern factory farming is the loss of biodiversity in our livestock. Robust, diverse genetics have been sacrificed in the name of cheap and abundant, but low quality food. To use a poultry metaphor, we’re putting all our eggs in one genetic basket, with the consequence being that our whole agricultural system feels like a ticking time bomb. We’ve seen how these short sighted practices have decimated comm...

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Slaughtering Turkeys for Thanksgiving

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Food
25 Comments
...eet. Birds don’t seem to mind hanging like this–they are remarkably calm at this stage. Ideally, they are just as calm all the way through. You can see how pretty this turkey is. Steve raised his little flock from eggs. They’re a heritage breed called Royal Palm, a beautiful white bird with flashy black markings. The next step is to slit the big veins on either side of the bird’s throat, just under the jaw. Steve prefer...

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