Jan 13
Farmer-Owned Cooperative Formalizes Agreement with Family-Owned Meat Processor Lauded in Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma” La Farge, WI (PRWEB) Organic Prairie, the brand of delicious organic meats produced by the same farmer-owned co-op as Organic Valley, today announced it has signed a partnership with Lorentz Meats, a family-owned meat market and processing plant with four decades of …
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Dec 29
I definitely wouldn’t advocate using this fencing in a permanent location or expect it to last too long. however, we’ve been using the same pieces for three or four years as pea trellises and have seen absolutely no degradation yet. the trick to longevity seems to be taking it in as soon as you’re done, …
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Dec 25
Two weeks ago, on September 3, a fire at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, California, burned down two chicken houses with 1000 baby chicks trapped in it, the old 1880s barn, thirty acres of pasture for the meat birds, beautiful oaks, and all the old plum trees. Alexis and Eric Koefoed, who in the late …
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Dec 20
Marathon County entrepreneur Tony Schultz is bubbling over withthoughts on growing Wisconsin’s economy. “Honestly, I’ve got about got 10 micro-food enterprise ideas inmy mind right now,” says Schultz, a third-generation farmer who,with partner Kat Becker, runs Stoney Acres Farm near Athens, about30 miles northwest of Wausau. Schultz and Becker grow a variety of vegetables and …
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Dec 16
So…let’s continue the chicken conversation! my previous blog addressed the first category of the many terms that we might find on egg cartons and/or packages of chicken at your supermarket. Sadly, that term, “Traditional Production and Diet”, applies to 95% of all egg laying and meat chickens. In this case, the hens live horrid, brutal …
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Dec 11
Walden and his wife, Dru Peters, started the 12.5-acre Sunnyside Farm, in northern York County about two years ago, after a brief stint of farming “practice” on rented land outside of Baltimore, where they lived at the time. The farm is home to meat chickens (about 3,000 per year), turkeys (150 per year), layer hens …
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Dec 02
Two diets, a control diet (C) and a diet including HSC (H), were fed to 1,200 Ross 308 chickens which were divided over eight pens. Birds were housed indoors until 21 d, and thereafter kept in the same groups in two chicken houses with access to outdoor pasture up to slaughter at 70 d. Production …
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Nov 29
I had heard of @FarmerAngus McIntosh, as he calls himself on Twitter, for the first time at Caffé Milano a year ago, when I asked them about the origin of their incredibly yellow eggs. Vanessa Quellec, Pastry chef at the time, gave me a bound booklet about Spier’s Biodynamic Farm, describing the pasture-reared production of beef, …
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Nov 08
Our first batch of pasture raised chicken has gone down very well indeed. We’ve received great feedback, recipes tips and repeat orders for the second batch which are due to be ready at the end of this month, just in time for Thanksgiving! The meat from our pastured poultry has texture and taste, as opposed …
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Nov 07
Today’s deal is all about voting for freedom. the ruckus on Animal Farm was really all about equal rights for all animals. Some animals felt that the Free range chickens and other naturally raised livestock were getting special treatment and enjoying better patronage from the master and his customers. Quell the revolution against wholesome, natural …
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