We have been SO busy on the farm lately! Planting is almost all done, baby animals are growing fast and we have tackled some big infrastructure improvements. I have done almost all the garden bed prep myself this year, using my tried and true hand tools: broadfork, hoe, hand plows. My back is …
On The Farm
Time to Pre-order Chicken
Looking for pasture raised meat? Check out this new post for our 2021 information! Uncertain times Boy howdy: This pandemic is certainly changing the grocery shopping landscape! A friend of mine sold out her entire store of frozen pasture raised chickens in a few days, chicks are hard to come by in …
Processing Muscovy Ducks
In Oregon, it is legal to process poultry outdoors on the farm where they were raised and then sell them direct to consumers. We process all our chickens for sale and home freezer and also do our own ducks. Ducks are much more difficult to pluck and eviscerate than chickens, thus the higher price …
Low-tech mowing
Some of you already know that Miranda is a scythe enthusiast... but did you know she also employs tiny little munching mowers? Inside this rolling 'tractor' live the "Three Little Pigs" (a trio of rescue cavy, aka guinea pig sows). They are pretty efficient little workers! No blade of grass …
Moving Day
Our Freedom Ranger chickens are 3.5 weeks old and ready to move outside! They're brooder has had the lights off for around 3 nights and the manure was steadily building up despite fresh pine shavings scooped in daily.... they're happy to be on fresh grass and out of the stinky barn! We handle …
Pasture Raised Chicken: Part 2
In part one of this blog series we discussed some of the reasons we raise our own meat, how much it costs, bringing home your new chicks and setting up their brooder. Part two will discuss keeping the birds on pasture in a tractor, briefly touching on some improvements and part three will discuss …
Raising Meat Chickens: How to brood healthy chicks
This post is the first installment of a 3 part series written in 2017, our third season raising our own chicken and the first raising a few extra to sell, so i figured it would be a great opportunity to document the project. Introduction: When my husband and i purchased this property, we …