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Barnyard or Backyard?
Where are chickens happiest?? Give you a hint…on Harley’s Kingston Farm it is definitely the barnyard! Join the WSU Small Farms Team and Harley Soltes as we host Chicks 101: Barnyard or Backyard!...
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Chicken Stew with Ricotta-Chive Dumplings
Chris Henry posted my recipe for Chicken Cacciatore over on Peninsular Thinking as a follow up to her story on our Chickens 101 class. That is my favorite recipe for stewing hens, but Harley suggested...
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Eggs for Easter
Or: How come we have the “Easter Bunny” instead of the “Easter Chicken?” Today the Kitsap Sun listed the local Easter Egg hunts. However, when you have free range chickens, every day is an egg hunt....
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Culinary adventures
A while back I posted about the “Dark Days Challenge” and said I was going to share our progress … and then NOTHING. So much for being a Food Blogger! So, what are my recent culinary adventures?...
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Kids Need This
My nephew recently spent some quality time on the farm with Aunt Diane thanks to the earthquake and tsumani. He is a first grader – which in my opinion is the PERFECT age for a kid! They are capable...
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Hanging out!
It has been a busy couple of weeks for the farm girls. The garden is getting going and last week we started a bunch of pickling cucs in the green house over at Pheasant Field Farm. Thanks to Farmer...
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Farm Diary – June 4th
Okay, so people ask me “What do you do all day on the farm!?” Farm and Ranch Living Magazine invites a farm family to keep a diary every month so you can get a taste of farm life through their...
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Farm Diary – June 6th
Before we start the Farm Diary a bit of explanation about tomorrow. Tuesday is P-day for the chickens – as in processing day! Seven weeks from hatch to fry pan. We raise broiler chickens in...
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Farm Diary – June 7th (Colonel Sanders would be proud!)
Yesterday I posted about preps for P-day for the chickens. Several people have asked me “Doesn’t that gross you out to kill your own chickens?” and I have to confess, there is an “Eew Factor” to...
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Giving Thanks
Early this summer I posted about the busy-ness of farm life in the summer. Now that we are in late fall there is much less going on but there is still some activity. Here is a sampling of what...
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