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Organic Heirloom Produce

Organic Heirloom Produce

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We've been graced with four more goat kids since yesterday afternoon. Kidding season here often represents a joyous farewell to winter and a recommitment to doing the work of animal husbandry: herding, milking, and stewarding the land.

Letting a batch of buttermilk-fermented duck salami dry out in the gusty late January wind. I'll be giving them just a hint of honey locust smoke tomorrow before they are allowed to ripen.

"A chicken shits freely. In fact the way that chickens shit... throughout their sleep, as they walk, whenever, wherever, unprovoked and without concern or even so much as a sound, is a testament to their sovereign nature. In fact there is no act more autonomously performed across freedom-loving homesteads than the way that chickens shit. Chickens are living the life libertarians wish they were living, shitting everywhere without consequence. And goats are anarchists."

New calf just dropped, check it out.

Working on a new duck ham, tentatively titled the Triple Tree, featuring essence of silver maple, eastern red cedar, and wild cherry. Here these hams are hanging in the wind in order to develop a "pellicle", or tacky surface that the cherry smoke will readily cling to. I will report more on the flavor of this prototype soon.

Goat merguez wrapped in pork caul. This is as close as I get to making cookies for the holidays. It has been about a solid month of butchery here... Think I'll have everything off my table by Solstice.

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