Posted on September 4, 2018
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We have entered a lovely time of the year now when our Spring-born pullets have started laying like crazy! Ideally we would have started our chicks in the Fall, so they would begin laying in the Spring, but our plans were derailed by the… Continue Reading “Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!”
Category: Farm LifeTags: chicken eggs, chickens, Eggs, eggs for sale, eggs in lawrence ks, farm fresh eggs, laying hens, organic, pasture raised, pastured, poultry, poultry farm, Small-scale Farm
Posted on August 22, 2018
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It’s been a little over two months since we added our first batch of turkeys to the farm. As you’ll recall, we lost some of our heritage birds in the brooder phase, but added a handful of Broad Breasted White turkeys to the mix… Continue Reading “Turkey Update”
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Posted on August 7, 2018
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If you look at the labels of things like chicken and eggs at the grocery store you will find a dizzying number of buzzwords trying to entice you to make the “right” choice. Many of the labels are just ambiguous phrases that make the… Continue Reading “Why Pastured Poultry?”
Category: Farm LifeTags: chicken, Cornish cross, Farm, farming, learning as we grow, natural, organic, organic chicken, pasture raised, pasture raised chicken, raising chickens, why pasture raised
Posted on July 25, 2018
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You guys! This is my new FAVORITE pizza sauce. Shannon here, and I just want to share my new, delicious and homemade pizza sauce recipe made from our own home grown tomatoes (and onions and herbs). Its not a quick process so, make sure… Continue Reading “Shannon’s Made-From-Scratch PIZZA SAUCE”
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Posted on July 18, 2018
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After doing some trial runs with the Cornish Cross, we’ve decided to squeeze in a couple of batches of chickens this Fall that will be available for sale! We secured processing dates on October 11thand November 1stfor two batches of 50 chickens. We will… Continue Reading “Selling Chicken”
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Posted on June 12, 2018
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Coming into this farming season, we decided to ramp up our enterprises a bit to trial run some ventures we thought we’d like to add to the farm. The no-brainer first addition was the pastured broilers. Since we have raised egg layers and culled… Continue Reading “Turkey Talk”
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