Category Archives: Birdsong Farm
Fire Cider – Delicious Medicine
Fall is in the air, school is back in session and germs on kiddy hands are ready to invade my well being! With these things in mind, i have been focusing some of my harvesting and food preserving on making … Continue reading
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Sheet Mulched Potatoes
Andy seems to have dug up an extra oddly shaped tuber while harvesting our Yukon Golds… Not sure this will taste better fried, baked or boiled. 😉 We begin our new 10×30 garden beds with potatoes. I lay down a … Continue reading
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Raising Pastured Chickens for Meat: Part 3 (Harvest)
*** WARNING – THIS POST INCLUDES GRAPHIC IMAGES OF BLOOD AND DEPICTIONS OF ANIMAL SLAUGHTER *** It’s 12.5 weeks after we brought our tiny balls of fluff home from the hatchery, our freezer is now stocked with a year’s supply … Continue reading
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Raising Pastured Chickens for Meat: Part 2
In part one of this blog series we discussed some of the reasons we raise our own meat, how much it costs, bringing home your new chicks and setting up their brooder. Part two will discuss keeping the birds on … Continue reading
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