As we winterize our gardens and prepare our kitchens for the holidays, a lot of us have been investigating how we can locally source our feast's ingredients. Here at the farm we have been preserving and processing our fruits and vegetables for storage through the...
We only got a few inches of snow, but the temperatures have stayed well below freezing for the past couple of days...
This spring we decided to grow our food - not only in the way of plants, but animals. Edible pets so to speak - as Novella Carpenter puts it. We grew two turkeys which would be ready for the annual celebration of Thanksgiving this November...
We have a turkey hen who just recently started laying eggs. The eggs are a bit larger than the chicken eggs and have a distinct brown spotting. The yolks are also a bit larger, but the interesting difference is the shell and membrane are much...
I was really starting to get attached to our turkeys - the male is stunning when he is on display and the female is sweet and submissive. But she has a tough attitude towards the male when he is *ahem* trying to get down to...
