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Getting Ready for Spring

It's that time of year again...  We are moving chickens. Dad and Megan are building an incubator, as Megan wants to try her hand a breeding heritage Sweetgrass turkeys.  She will start with chickens, so she found a Barred Rock and a Buff Orpington rooster to begin this project.  Today, she and Dad built a rooster shelter.  We have built our egg clientele up to nearly 20 dozen per week, with more available.   We have even been able to set up an egg stand at the end of the driveway. It feels so Amish!  The next heritage chicken we will add to our flock of 120 will be 80 Buckeyes!  We are also about to place our first order for 50 Smith Rock Red broilers.  This past fall, our dressed chickens weighed in between 5 and 6 pounds each and were delicious.   We are hoping to run our chickens on some pasture land behind our property and follow their cattle.  Things are getting busy here on the farm.   I saw seeds at the market for the first time and am now thinking about starting some seeds for the greenhouse soon.  Oh how we miss those garden fresh veggies, especially the tomatoes!

Raising Pastured Chickens Alongside Free Range Kids!

Well, we finally have enough fresh eggs to bring in new customers!  Our motto is "Live Real. Eat Real."  Our chicken ladies roam on pasture, out in the sunshine, are fed grain grown locally and treated as our family's pets!  Most of our chickens our Heritage Birds! 

But why are pastured chickens, and thus their eggs,  better for you to eat:

1.  Our chickens forage for their own food which is natural to their species (happy chickens).

  2.  They are in the sunshine which allows the Vitamin D to concentrate in the eggs.

    

 3.  The more grub they forage for, the less ‘feed’ they need

 4.  Omega-3 is higher in concentration in pastured chickens

The Weston A Price Foundation website has an article on pastured egg nutrition here.  Some additional nutritional benefits of PASTURED over conventional store-bought eggs:

1)  2/3 more Vitamin A

2)  Up to 7 times more beta-carotene

3)  3 times the Vitamin E

4)  Twice the Omega-3 Fatty Acids which is severely deficient in the modern American diet

5)  4-6 times more Vitamin D

And I haven't even shared the best reason with you!  These eggs are delicious!  They are rich, with deeply colored yolks (more so as they are put back on newly greened pasture after winter.)  Once you eat fresh, pastured eggs, store bought eggs taste watery.  So, add this all up with the nutritional value of pastured eggs and this is a simple way you too can begin the journey of eating real, local and fresh food.

I have about 15 dozen eggs spoken for already and another 10 dozen at $4 per dozen available.  We reserve just the right amount of eggs your family needs on a weekly basis.  I deliver Wednesdays at co op at the Bridge and Sundays during church at the Bridge.  You are always welcome to come by and visit the chickens, collect your own eggs or grab a dozen out of the freezer!  We also have heritage turkeys to admire.  

Let me know if you would like to reserve your eggs as soon as possible!  I will put your name on the list!

Live Real. Eat Real.  Kerry of Hinton Family Farm

"Historically, kitchens have always been the centerpiece  of the household.  something was always simmering, baking, roasting, rising or something.  The entertainment center has replaced the kitchen as the hub of the house. That is unfortunate .  .  .  "  J. Salatin,  Folks, This Ain't Normal

Where does our food come from?

No civilization has ever been in this state of environmental ignorance. In previous eras, people who lived in an area, whether they were newcomers or old-timers, had to be intimately aware of their surroundings and viscerally involved in rearing and preparing food for the table.
But in recent decades, in our culture, putting food on the table does not require any knowledge or involvement except how to scan a credit card, open a plastic bag, and nuke it in the microwave. No civilization in history has ever been able to be this disconnected from its ecological umbilical. And in more frequent dinnertime discussions, I'm finding more and more people wondering if a civilization this disconnected can actually survive.
Today we can live day to day to day, even a lifetime, without thinking about air, soil, water, lumber, and energy. If we do think about them, we think about them in the abstract. We don't have a visceral relationship with any of these essential resources.
{Joel Salatin, Folks, this ain't normal}

HFF

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