Twelve weeks after they arrived as wee little chicks, it was time for our Freedom Rangers to die. As my wife likes to say, be glad you’re at the top of the food chain. Processing chickens is not terribly difficult, but there are several steps involved, as well as lots of different equipment. This was […]
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Hard as it may be for some consumers to believe, that turkey on the Thanksgiving table once was a living, breathing animal. Most turkeys for public consumption are raised in huge confinement lots, where they live a pretty miserable existence, all jammed together waiting for their date with the executioner. But at Mike Klein’s farm […]
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I was preparing to grind meat for sausages yesterday and for the second time in two weeks called my local Whole Foods for pork shoulder (aka pork butt) only to be told there wasn’t any. That’s not a problem any more. We are so used to the local Whole Foods not having what we need […]
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