If you watched Food Inc, then you saw a contract grower for Perdue, walk through her chicken house with a mask, hauling dead chickens out of the barn. Sustainable Food News reports that Carole Morison now raises a flock of 500 Rhode Island Red hens on pasture. From the story: “On farms across the country […]
Category Archives: Pastured Chicken
As we process chickens, we’re ending up with some left over parts. Raw chicken feet – $1 each Raw hearts and livers – $2/lb Raw necks – $2/lb (very limited supply since we leave these on the chicken at processing time) Make no mistake. This is human quality food, and we have customers who eat […]
[This editorial first appeared in the July/August 2011 issue of the APPPA Grit, the newsletter for the American Pastured Poultry Association. I edit the APPPA Grit.] Christie and I are fresh off a trip to Polyface for Joel Salatin’s field day. I talked a lot of chicken and met many great people, including farmers, soon-to-be […]
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[This editorial was originally posted in the May/June 2011 newsletter of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association. I’m the editor of the APPPA Grit] My chickeness is on full display in the neighborhood and my meatheads (that’s what I call my Cornish Cross broilers) have proven to be quite the attraction. This spring I de- […]
My strategy for cooking chicken was born out of an indoctrinated fear of salmonella. It’s taken me an adult lifetime to overcome the tendency to overcook my meat, especially chicken. Free tip – If your chicken lacks juice, it’s overcooked. I’ve started using a meat thermometer to tell when my chicken reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit […]
Now, if this doesn’t make you hungry for chicken, I don’t know will. This recipe also uses honey. Place your chicken order.
When you buy a whole chicken, it’s more economical, but it can be hard to fry a whole chicken. Here’s Gordon Ramsay to show you how to cut up your chicken.
At the Badger compound, our meat chickens are raised outside in the grass under watchful eye of the sun, and while that seems perfectly natural to me (and to the chickens), I encounter plenty of people who are surprised by the idea. The key to pastured-raised chickens is to ensure the flock always has access […]
During World War I, the U.S. government encouraged families to keep back yard flocks for family egg production, as seen in this 1918 poster. Isn’t it time we get back to our 1918 roots?
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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 […]