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2 killed, 7 injured in van crash near Jacksonville

  A crash has claimed the lives of two Myanmar refugees in Jacksonville. Another vehicle driving the wrong way on Interstate 10 struck the minivan that the refugees were traveling in as they retu… more →

Friends of Refugees

Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Or Snow... — 4 comments

eastwestfarm wrote 1 week ago: Will stop the farming. This Saturday was our first scheduled processing day for our broiler chickens … more →

Tags: Chickens, chicks, cows, Daniel, East West Farm, farm, free range chicken, on farm processing, Processing

Processing Day: Things We Have Learned — 2 comments

Head Farm Steward wrote 3 weeks ago: Saturday was beautiful.  We worked at a leisurely pace and wrapped up processing and packing birds i … more →

Tags: Lessons Learned, Livestock Processing, Featherman Equipment, Featherman Review, Featherman Scalder

How cheap is that chicken? — 2 comments

sfritschner wrote 3 months ago: On February 4, Spartan Staffing, a company known “For Great Jobs in Manufacturing and Logistics, … more →

Tags: Real cost of cheap food, real cost of cheap food, chicken factories, chicken factory workers, Perdue, Community, poverty line, food worker wages, food stamps

The Gradual Vegetarian — 5 comments

msdoolittle wrote 4 months ago: This is a post about butchering chickens.  Yes, it seems to be a totally irrelevant title, but I ass … more →

Tags: On my soap box, Farm Critters, chicken butchering, chicken butchering stations, killing cones, eviscerating chickens, cornish x broilers, butchering broilers, 'becoming vegetarian'

Chicken processing in the Willamette Valley, OR — 1 comment

Allison Jack wrote 5 months ago: On my way to the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association’s 2012 conference in Corvallis, … more →

Tags: Not AZ but still agroecology, Agriculture, Grow International, Jerry Tindall, regional food system, Sustainable Agriculture

Today Was Chicken Day

Michael E Picray wrote 6 months ago: Yep… I’m sure that 28 chickens felt honored – since they are up in the shed eating … more →

Tags: Organic Gardening

2 killed, 7 injured in van crash near Jacksonville

Christopher Coen wrote 6 months ago:   A crash has claimed the lives of two Myanmar refugees in Jacksonville. Another vehicle drivin … more →

Tags: Burma/Myanmar, Jacksonville, passenger van roll-over, Poultry Production, Burmese, Jacksonville, minivan, Myanmar, Refugees

Rooster Chasing — 6 comments

christiok wrote 6 months ago: I’m at the butchering table and five men run by chasing a little rooster.  There are thirteen … more →

Tags: Community, Neighbors, Politics, chasing chickens, chasing chicken with net cartoon, quince photo, turtled chicken cartoon

Chicken Workshop

nrlymrtl wrote 7 months ago: Chicken secure in a homemade ‘chicken cone’. What did we do for My Main Man’s birt … more →

Tags: Chickens, Food/Cooking, chickens, Meat & Chicken, freezer chicken

Gizzards. "I bet they're going to be gross." — 1 comment

grassfood wrote 7 months ago: “Oh mom, they are not.” “I bet they are.” “Well, just try one.” … more →

Tags: pastured poultry, Recipes, Dinner, Poultry, Processing, Gizzards, duck processing

Chicken Processing Day — 13 comments

sailorssmallfarm wrote 9 months ago: Unlike many small producers elsewhere in North America, here in BC it is illegal for us to sell any … more →

Tags: farming, Food, Chickens, pastured poultry

Broth is Beautiful - Chicken Feet are not — 1 comment

grassfood wrote 9 months ago: In helping our wonderful local farmers, , process their fat, healthy chickens, I was given the feet. … more →

Tags: pastured poultry, Recipes, Poultry, Processing, chicken feet, bone broth, pastured poultry

Chickens and Cherries — 4 comments

Laal wrote 10 months ago: I wish I could share with you the pictures I took today. There was the mess of twenty pounds of pitt … more →

Tags: Out and About, farming, Life, Slaughter Stories, la belle rouge, cornish cross, freedom rangers, Wildwood Ranch

Delete This One Sarah — 2 comments

Laal wrote 10 months ago: Here are some pictures of our chicken processing. Unfortunately I didn’t get pictures of the w … more →

Tags: What's For Dinner?, farming, Cooking, Slaughter Stories, chicken slaughter, schmaltz, chicken parts, homemade chicken plucker

Featherman Product Review Update — 8 comments

Head Farm Steward wrote 10 months ago: This post serves as an update to my original review in April 2012.  Though I think that post is stil … more →

Tags: Farm Equipment, Lessons Learned, Featherman Equipment, Featherman Product Review, Featherman Scalder

Not for the Bleeding Chicken Hearts... — 2 comments

loprestimediadesign wrote 10 months ago: *** I’m prefacing this post by saying I go into detail about how to clean a chicken. It gets g … more →

Tags: farm updates, In the Kitchen, new experiences, farm life

Catching Up — 2 comments

Laal wrote 10 months ago: We’re heading to clean house in Paonia and because of the fragile state of our computer I won … more →

Tags: In the Garden, Sheep stories, farming, Writing #2, gardening, Cleaning, Sheep, pneumonia, Penicillin

Refugees seek chicken-processing jobs in Noel, MO

Christopher Coen wrote 11 months ago: The small Ozarks town of Noel in southern Missouri is the site of secondary and tertiary migration o … more →

Tags: Meatpacking Industry, Missouri, Poultry Production, secondary migration, refugee, Somali, Meat Processing, Noël, Refugees, Resettlement

600 Birds Later... — 6 comments

Head Farm Steward wrote 11 months ago: We processed our 600th bird with our Featherman equipment.  We did 56 birds in a little under an hou … more →

Tags: pastured poultry, Featherman Equipment, shrink bags


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