We’re excited to announce that all of our pasture-raised, scrumptious Red Ranger chicken parts are now back in stock! This includes boneless & skinless breast, thighs, drumsticks, wings, feet, liver, etc! All parts (including whole birds) are now available to all customers for purchase—not just our CSA folks.
Also this week, we’re offering a special sale on our stevia plants: buy 2, get 1 free! Regularly priced at $5 each, you’ll get 3 plants for $10 instead of $15.
Stevia is actually a pretty cool herb, and is commonly used as a sugar substitute. When you grow your own stevia, you use the the leaves directly from the plant rather than the ultra-processed version that’s now popular in stores. It has 0 calories and adds excellent flavor and sweetness to any teas or other recipes. In fact, it can be ground up and added to baking to mimic the flavor and sweetness of sugar without any of the negative side effects of sugar!
So swing by the Corner Farmers Market tomorrow from 9am-12pm to stock up on your favorite cuts of meat and to grab your 3 stevia plants! If you’d like to ensure that any of our products are saved just for you, email us today by 5pm to reserve. Can’t wait to see you all tomorrow!
Reflections on Processing Our Own Birds
Processing one’s own meat is a well-rounded homage to humanity. It honors our ancestry as big-brained scavenger/hunters and our current status as self-reflective stewards of the earth.
It requires physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual stamina.
It requires a love for science, a love for animals, a love for food, a love for those you plan to feed, and a love and respect for the life/death/life cycle that evolved humanity and all other creatures.
It’s difficult and tiring. It’s wonderful and absolutely fun. It’s a family affair. It’s a skill. It’s a day that always ends well when your nearly 3-year-old son spends the entire day catching chickens with you and still says “let’s keep working!” after the work is over and all is cleaned up and put away. It’s a family culture and a little legacy.
Plants & Animals Living Together on the Homestead
Summer is nearly here, and this often means that our edible plants and our pasture raised animals spend a lot of time in close proximity. Ducks and chickens often graze and forage under the shade of both small and large trees, and we use the ducks for weeding the garden edges and chickens for eating the seeded grasses that grow in open spaces.
Pictured below: Our layer ducks enjoying time weeding/mowing the grassy areas surrounding our garden and the greenery beneath the peach trees growing in the nursery.
Those of you with both plants and animals, how do you encourage this symbiotic relationship on your own properties? Let us know! We love to hear more about how your fruiting plants and animals mutually benefit each other!
Strawberry Time!
Did someone say strawberry? We did! Come on by The Corner Farmers Market tomorrow from 9am-12pm to grab enough strawberries to get your strawberry patch going!
