December is really a huge month. There’s just so much that happens, for me especially. I got my birthday, Hanukah, Christmas and New Years.
Busy. Busy. Busy.
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CRX: The Bird That Built a Nation
So much of this slow and local food renaissance being promoted all over has to do with knowledge.
Know your food. Know your farmers. Know your greater food community.
So…it’s a must: know your chicken. Meet the behemoth Cornish Rock Cross Jumbo Broiler.
Turkey Day
What better way to celebrate America’s obsession with food than Thanksgiving! This Thursday across the nation, the lives of some 45 million Turkeys will be devoured by the ravenous traditions of one of American’s favorite holidays. Of those 45 million, 99.99% of them are the same breed, aka Broad Breasted White. The industries that brought us boneless chicken wings have successfully developed a turkey that is genuinely genetically disproportionate in its breast to leg ratio. As a result of this disturbing scientific “achievement,” the turkey that we eat and adore is incapable of breeding on its own. You read that correctly. This breed that dominates our turkey needs can no longer reproduce because its too damn big!
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Poultry Pages: Introductions
Introductions…
My name is Doug.
I am a poultry farmer.
I am a freshly-minted, small-scale, unlikely poultry farmer who was lucky enough to have settled in one of the most beautiful spots on the eastern seaboard, Martha’s Vineyard’s Tisbury Great Pond.
Turkey Dealing in the Parking Lot
At 12 o’clock this afternoon, I found myself outside a Levi clothing store, awaiting a silver jeep to pull into the adjacent parking spot. It had taken several days to arrange this meeting. I live in north Portland and he lives outside the city’s limits to the southeast. I like fresh food from local farmers practicing sustainable farming methods. He likes letting chickens and turkeys roam around his land. It was clearly a good match for the both of us.
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