Our new homesteading friends invited us to their homestead this weekend to participate in their chicken harvest.They had a couple other friends over to help with the process, so the six of us worked through the afternoon processing their 15 meat chickens, culminating everything with a wonderful dinner of fried chicken that could not be any more fresh and independent!
Posts Tagged ‘harvest’
Independence Food: Chicken
Posted in Chickens, Food & Beverage, tagged chickens, dispatching, feathers, food, frier, gutting, harvest, plucking, processing on May 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We’ve Only Just Begun: Growing a Garden
Posted in Garden, tagged edging, fence, garden, gardening, harvest, plants, seeds, weeding, weeds, winter on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We moved into Independence Homestead at the beginning of the summer in 2011, so almost a year ago. Last year was spent improving the inside of the house and settling in. While we did routine maintenance on the yard, that’s about all we did outside. The prior owners were obviously not gardeners, so we started […]