Growing Our Poultry Operation with Our Own USDA Inspected Processing Plant
Maple Wind Farm, owned by Bruce Hennessey and Beth Whiting, is a diversified, pasture-based livestock, organic vegetable, and maple products farm located on two conserved properties in Huntington and Richmond, VT. Here’s how they worked through the process of growing their pastured poultry business with their own processing facility.
Read More →Considering the True Cost of How Meat Is Raised
When someone asks you, “Why does pasture finished meat cost so much more than what I’ve been buying all along in the grocery store?” do you have a good answer? Kendra Kimbirauskas, a food activist, legislative aide, and small diversified farmer has some answers that we thought would be helpful to you. Kendra raises pastured […]
Read More →How to Get Your Chickens to Make the Best Use of Pasture
Changing the time when you feed your birds can increase their foraging, potentially increase weight gain, and reduce labor costs.
Read More →Day Range Pastured Poultry – An Alternative to Chicken Tractors
Lots of producers use chicken tractors. The concept was popularized by Joel Salatin and the structure size and shape has been modified by many people. I used my own version when raising meat chickens in my backyard. It’s basically an open-floored enclosure that is moved once or twice a day around a pasture. Birds live […]
Read More →Why Don’t Chickens Lay Eggs in the Winter?
It’s all about the birds and the bees.
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