Joel Salatin on the Sacredness of Food

Some transcript from Joel’s TEDx speech:

“We have this very mechanistic view in our Greco, Roman, Western, Reductionist, linear, fragmented, compartmentalized, disconnected, democratized, individualized, parts-oriented, thought process we never think about the whole.”

“We’ve never had a sales plan or a marketing target. We’ve never had a benchmark that we’re hitting. In fact, we’ve now [...]

Beautiful Chicken Eggs

Just thought I’d share a picture of some really beautiful chicken eggs we got from a local farmer. They had a really wide range of colors this time. Everything from the standard white (yawn) to white-specked-on-brown and dark-brown-spots-on-tan, as well a couple blue-green tinted ones. These looked almost too good to crack! [...]

Urban Chicken Meeting in Appleton

Anybody interested in finding out more about starting an ordinance in Appleton, WI on having urban chickens? There’s a very informal meeting at Harmony Cafe this Thursday (3/31/11 I believe) at 4pm to get a feel for who’s all interested. Right now the city of Appleton has an ordinance on the books prohibiting [...]

Wisconsin State Fair

A beautiful little bantam rooster at the Wisconsin State Fair

This past weekend our family went to the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee (actually West Allis). I haven’t been to the State Fair for probably 30 years, so this was a nice refresher. I had totally forgotten about how large and populous it was. [...]

Build a Chicken Tractor

Are you looking to try your hand at building a chicken tractor? Don’t know what a chicken tractor is?

It’s a great way to get your chickens out and around your property to scratch around for bugs, and deposit their fertilizer, instead of being “cooped up” (no pun intended) in one location all [...]