Get your orders in pronto for our out-of-this-world succulent, flavourful….HAPPY chickens! Our birds are raised outdoors, on pasture, where they can graze and eat bugs in addition to being fed certified organic grain. Sunshine and green grass means Vitamin D and Omega 3, a nice change from antibiotics, growth promotants, arsenic and who knows what else.
If you find chicken to be a little boring, a little dry, generally in need of sauce or seasoning, you will be blown away when you taste a ‘real’ chicken. You will find that just a little salt and pepper is all you need to have the best chicken you have ever tasted.
Chicken is only available by pre-order, and costs $4.50/lb. Send an email to greenbeingfarm@gmail.com telling us how many you’d like. There is a minimum 5 chicken order. Chicken will be delivered to downtown locations in:
Guelph: August 4th from 5-7
Toronto: August 22 from 11:00-1:00.
At the farm any time after July 28th.
Exact details will be given when you order.
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Just had to share some exciting things we’ve seen as the farm starts to green up. First of all, have a look at this picture. See the nice green patch? That’s where we grazed our animals last year. It turns out that our fields have been seriously depleted of fertility over the years. We are able to remedy that in the market garden by adding compost. But in the pasture, we are counting on the animals to bring it back to life.
Have a closer look:
Ungrazed land
Result of rotational, multi-species grazing
The greening up of the fields is not only due to the manuring, it’s due to the fact that the action of animals on the soil can have the effect of increasing soil organic matter and sward diversity (said simply: the number of different types of grasses, legumes etc found in the pasture). On the ungrazed pasture, there is only the odd orchard grass plant, on the grazed field there are 2-3 different grasses, and clover as well. Both sections of the field were seeded and hayed in exactly the same way. This is an illustration of what ‘regenerative’ agriculture is all about…returning the soil to it’s natural, healthy state through smart and conscientious agricultural practices. For more on regenerative agriculture, click here to read an article from the Rodale Institute.
On another note entirely, I have to share what I had for dinner last night. Well, not share…it’s all gone. But it was so good I took a picture:
Carrots, parsnip, celeriac, onion and turkey, all Green Being Grown....
...simmered in thyme and home-made turkey gravy and snuggled in under a cheddar-biscuit crust! Turkey Pot Pie anyone?
Of course, the reason I share this with you is to entice you to join our Winter CSA! This too could be yours by signing up…the best winter vegetables you can conceive of, all grown locally using organic methods. We have added a second, smaller share size…click here for more info!
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Well, it’s a sunny day in March and the farm is starting to wake up. I saw a spider skitter across the snow yesterday, and the sheep are finding patches of bare grass on the pasture. We just seeded our onion and leek transplants.
While there’s not much outdoor farming going on over the winter, we kept busy educating ourselves and others. Tarrah recently spoke at
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Welcome to my first ever blog post! It may be getting onto winter but we’re keeping busy here on the farm. Solving problems, asking questions, that sort of thing. For example:
What to do when your organic farm comes with a chlorine drinking, time sucking, energy hog of a swimming pool?
Fill it with carrots, of course!
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