Podchef | January 13, 2011
It has been six months since Maple was born. In that time he lead a grand life, in the high style….for a male dairy calf, that is. Hazel, his mother, was ill just after his birth‚Äîketosis‚Äîso we weaned him a week earlier than were going to. At first we bottle fed Maple, but within the [...]
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 had [...]
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 the [...]
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, [...]
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