As a consumer, what do you expect from your organic eggs or organic chicken? Would you feel betrayed to learn that the commercial organic eggs and chicken are raised in large houses with thousands of other birds, much like the conventional chickens? Would it surprise you to learn that the organic chickens in your grocer’s […]
How far does a four-pound chicken go? For a family of 2-1/2 people, it stretches to four meals. We recently made a chicken for Sunday dinner. Over the next day or two, we made two or three chicken sandwiches for lunch and breakfast – I’ll eat anything at breakfast. From the Sunday dinner, I created […]
Is your chicken healthy? If you’re shopping at the grocery store, the answer is likely, no. Here are some interesting points from the video: Up to 1/3 of the raw chicken sold in the store is injected with salt water and other solutions to “help” the chicken retain it’s moisture. The salt content is equivalent […]
The following WPSU video frames the organic versus local food choice nicely. Organic is certification that the food was produced according to a set of “standards.” However, the organic standards currently has a lot of loop holes and you might be surprised to know that your organic supermarket chicken never saw the sunshine or stepped […]
I helped friend and beekeeper Bill Huntington remove honeybees from a house in Riverside, PA in the summer of 2010. Here are some pictures from that day. I wrote about the experience on the The Beekeepers of the Susquehanna Valley website.