What could be cuter than 50 day-old chicks? I can’t think of anything. Every couple of years, we need to replace the chickens we lose to attrition and old age. The previous batch were hatched right here on the farm from our own flock of Black Australorps in October 2008. [...]
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Sunday April 18 at Grace Note Farm, 66 N Main, Petersham, MA Come join us for work and fun on Sunday April 18 Raising most livestock means buying alot of feed. Over the year, we spend more on feed than on any other single item, which means that growing and transporting feed for our animals creates most of our ecological footprint. Take pigs, for example. Pigs really like to eat. They eat voraciously, at every opportunity. A [...] We hatched and raised heritage turkeys this year. The hatchlings, now grown, are destined to grace the Thanksgiving tables of several lucky Massachusetts families. The older generation, which were slaughtered in June, have been a major gustatory pleasure for our own table this year. We have shared many delicious roasted turkey dinners [...] Biochar is getting alot of attention lately as a technique both for improving soil, for growing plants, and for sequestering carbon dioxide, so I’ve been wanting to learn how to make it. I attended Yarrow’s biochar conference in NH and came home to experiment with my outdoor wood boiler and lo and behold, the [...] |
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