Podchef | January 7, 2010
Well…perhaps not start, after all I didn’t breed ducks to lay the eggs which were hatched to get these ducklings, but you get the drift.
On the morning of a mad September day I hatched out a scheme to raise a flock of ducks with the express purpose of getting some fellow cooks together to [...]
Podchef | November 2, 2009
Whew! I’m finally feeling like I have a little chance to breath. Last week I slaughtered our annual pig and this weekend I butchered and processed it. Right now I am in a tiny window of rest before the remaining 7 pigs I have been raising are slaughtered here on the farm and taken away [...]
Podchef | September 23, 2009
I’m not quite sure how this happened. I seem to get myself stuck in the middle of things quite often. Perhaps I am too good natured. Perhaps I am too game for fun & a lark. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. All I know is I find myself raising ducklings this Autumn when not a duck [...]
Podchef | August 19, 2009
As a small-scale, artisanal pork producer I work hard to raise a quality product for my customers. From start to finish it takes almost a year for me to raise pork to the quality I like to offer.
This often means coaxing piglets through February frosts, seeing to their comfort on a scorching July day, [...]
Podchef | March 19, 2009
When the Industrial Revolution began to take hold, countless country bumpkins flocked to the cities, lured by the promise of money, a better life, some sort of future out of the dung heap. What they found was enslavement, death, disease, and crippling poverty at the hands of often cruel masters who grew wealthy on [...]
Podchef | February 16, 2009
Here is an udder. Bridget’s udder. I am sure she thinks the warm coating of hair all over it is nice. In truth, it is. Soft, hairy, warm, sweet smelling, and despite it’s pendulous nature, everything an udder should be.
However, in a dairy cow, especially a hand milked Jersey, udder hair is a problem. It [...]
Podchef | December 31, 2008
I have just completed my second reading of this fantastic, simple account of how a city business man left debt and near poverty to head for the countryside of Pre-Civil War New Jersey. While a seeming idealistic account of agriculture from today’s perspective this small book contains much to think over. Time then, like now, [...]
Podchef | December 31, 2008
Why, indeed. I think there is within each one of us a budding agrarian.1 Whether we admit it or not we yearn for contact with the sun, the soil, the foods that feed us. While I agree it is a difficult thing to contemplate in the middle of a snow-bound winter day, or on cold, [...]
admin | December 30, 2008
Welcome to our new site! This is just a quick note to welcome you to what I hope will be an active site. There is a forum coming soon and many more posts.
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