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The Egg Man Cometh

September 26th, 2015 · No Comments · farming

Where would our farm business be without our friend Jamie? Each week I load two shopping bags with 12 dozen of our eggs and drop them off early in the morning at Jamie’s house. He then drives them an hour to his job in Albany where he distributes the eggs to his co-workers. Jamie works […]

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Smoke

September 21st, 2015 · No Comments · eating local

An invitation to dinner at our friends Luke and Ashley’s house last night turned into a lesson in smoking our Spy Dog Farm Freedom Ranger broilers. Apparently, Luke woke up that morning inspired to build his own smoker. He just happened to have an old wood stove on hand. So he dug a fire pit […]

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Broilers on the Downhill

September 19th, 2015 · No Comments · farming

All summer long we’ve been taking care of 150 0r m0re Freedom Ranger meat chickens in various stages of development. That means tending the needs of 50-plus chicks in the basement brooder until they’re  big enough to go outside, and dragging another hundred around our pastures in big “tractors” (cages) until they’re ready for slaughter. […]

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