If you buy a Perdue chicken in the grocery store, you might think it had lived a comfortable avian middle-class existence. “Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely,” Jim Perdue, the company’s chairman, says in a promotional video. The company’s labels carry a seal of approval from the Department of Agriculture […]
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Cage Free, Humanely Raised, Think Again!
Posted in Food & Beverage, Health, Meat Chickens, tagged chicken, factory farm, independence, perdue on December 5, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Preparing For The Bees
Posted in Beekeeping, tagged bees, beeswax, chicken, concord, coop, essential oil, feeder, hives, independence, lemongrass, lemongrass essential oil, lexington, names, package, queen, sugar, syrup, virginia bee supply, wax on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Being new to beekeeping, the most sure fire way to get bees for our hives was to order packages of bees from a bee supplier. Some people order them through the mail, we were fortunate to have a local beekeeping supply company near us in Northern Virginia called Virginia Bee Supply. They bring packages of […]
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