Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - Grants and Education. Coldantlerfarm. Throwback at Trapper Creek. Aprovecho Sustainability Education Center. Corporate Document Repository. CHAPTER 7: Slaughter of livestock. The obligation in the conversion of food animals into edible products and useful by-products is to slaughter the animal in a humane manner and to process the carcass in a hygienic and efficient way. Preparing livestock for slaughter At the time of slaughter, animals should be healthy and physiologically normal. Slaughter animals should be adequately rested. They should be rested, preferably overnight, particularly if they have travelled for some times over long distances. When ready for slaughter, animals should be driven to the stunning area in a quiet and orderly manner without undue fuss and noise (Fig. 8, 9, 26). Restraint devices It is very important that slaughter animals should be properly restrained before stunning or bleeding.
Cattle A stunning box is the most common method of restraining cattle (Fig. 25, 44). Fig. 44: Stunning box for cattle Fig. 45: Simple, effective race and neck crush for cattle restraint Sheep/goats Fig. 47: Sheep/goat stunning box Pigs Poultry Ostriches A. Gunshot. Temple Grandin's Web Page. Making Yogurt. INTRODUCTION Yogurt is a fermented milk product which was apparently broght to Turkey by the mongols millenia ago. It is produced by adding a "starter" of active yogurt containing a mixed culture of Lactobacillus bulgaricus (or occasionally L. acidophilus ) and Streptococcus thermophilus.
These produce lactic acid during fermentation of lactose. The lactic acid lowers the pH, makes it tart, causes the milk protein to thicken and acts as a preservative since pathogenic bacteria cannot grow in acid conditions. The partial digestion of the milk when these bacteria ferment milk makes yogurt easily digestible. In addition, these bacteria will help settle GI upset including that which follows oral antibiotic therapy by replenishing non-pathogenic flora of the gastrointestinal tract. Several factors are crucial for successful yogurt making: Baked goods will rise well when yogurt is used, again due to its acidity. Yogurt is an excellent dish by itself, but is valuable in its many other uses.
Cheese Making for Beginners. My Food-onomics - Kevin Kossowan. My diet is probably the most localized of anybody I know. Some come close, but let’s use me as the example. If I’m Mr. 95+% local food diet guy, and local, good quality foods are by your definition the most expensive foods, I should then have the highest food cost of anybody I know. But the facts are, the opposite is true. Our family’s food budget works out to about $400/month. That’s for a family of 5 [kids 5, 3, 1], which per person works out to $80/person, $2.66/day, or less than $1/meal per person. Thems is the facts. How? Which leads me to an important point: the marginal cost of upgrading. A quick look at inflation and seed cost. So I’ll cut to the chase on a few items. Our annual seed budget for veg is about $100, and I could easily tighten that up if I felt it was necessary.
I’ve done beef-onomics and pork-onomics for years. Most folks, when I start talking about food economics, will grab ‘time’, and toss it in my face. Willing to share your food budget? Heirloom Spotlight--Stupice Tomatoes | Annel and Drew's Kitchen. The heirloom craze started with tomatoes–specifically, with the East Coast stand-bys like Brandywine. Folks loved them not just for their unprecedented flavor, but maybe even more for the entwined history they shared with early America. Suddenly, eating a tomato made you feel like you’d discovered a relational tie with George Washington.
The euphoria, of taste and education, was addictive. And every year, seed banks are unearthing more pieces of delicious history. Right now, you can find them all over the market scene. Point of order: Don’t call them “stupid.” Pronounced “stoo-PEECH-ka,” this Eastern European variety was brought to the US in 1976 through the lucky circumstance of an open letter in Rodale’s Organic Gardening. Prague, 24/3 1976Dear Sir:I am a permanent reader of ‘The Organic Gardening and Farming’ and the January issue I have read a very interesting article: ‘Special seeds for special needs’ and your successful undertaking.
Uovo in Purgatorio 1. 2. Come see us! Beef/Lamb « Kitchen Garden Recipes. Phở Bò is the classic Vietnamese noodle soup dish. Flat wide rice noodles served in a bowl of delicately spiced beef broth with thin slivers of beef and garnishes of aromatic fresh herbs and vegetables. In spring it is lunchtime staple in our house, thanks to a special Phở stock paste I found in an Asian grocers, which makes it even easier to knock out this tasty lunch. Serves 2 Prep & Cook 20minPhở Bò Stock 1 tbsp of paste to 2 pints of hot waterBeef steak1 tsp each of soy sauce and fish sauceWide flat rice noodles (2 portions)1 onion thinly sliced2 spring onions, finely sliced Garnishes The traditional Vietnamese garnishes are; green onions, white onions, coriander, Thai basil, saw leaf herb (Eryngium foetidum), mint, lime segments, bean sprouts, and sliced red chilli peppers.
Slice the steak against the grain very thinly and marinade in the soy and fish sauce while you prepare the rest of the dish. Bread Baker's Apprentice « Of Cabbages & King Cakes. As part of the Breads section in the Modern Baker Challenge, I decided to take on French bread. Unlike some recipes that I decide to do because I have never made that particular kind of bread, I chose French bread specifically because I have made French bread before. Lots and lots of French bread. I’ve been baking French bread since I was about 10 years old and have in recent years really developed a passion for great baguettes.
It started with a French bread class I took at the Western Reserve School of Cooking and has continued with my experience on The Fresh Loaf and baking from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice and other artisan bread books and, most recently, Artisan Breads Every Day. In baking French bread, there are always a few things at odds with each other. Nick Malgieri’s recipe in The Modern Baker combines new and old methods. I began by mixing two doughs. The second dough was comprised of flour, salt, water, and yeast. Now I had a decision to make. About Cordero Farms « Who's Your Farmer? We are located in the northwest part of Lincoln County, Oklahoma, near the town of Tryon. We raise dairy sheep, and also are the home for a couple of draft horses, some Muscovy ducks, and a few dairy goats. Our Maremma livestock guardian dogs protect our stock (and look out for us, too).
We believe in the benefits of grassfed meat and milk. We manage our pastures through rotational grazing and do not use commercial fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides on our pastures. We are committed to re-establishing local food networks and to empowering consumer choice by producing healthy alternatives to nameless, origin-less industrial mega-food products. All those high-falutin’ sounding principles aside, we love our stock, love our land, and love our farm lifestyle. Like this: Like Loading... Annie's Kitchen Garden. Washington Wool: Frontpage. Washington State Cheesemakers Association : The Cheesemakers. In 2003, Kurt Beecher Dammeier combined his love of great cheese with his passion for pure food – and Beecher’s Handmade Cheese was born.
Located in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market, Beecher’s uses the time tested method of open-vat cheesemaking, combining a 5,000 year old craft with a 21st century commitment to quality and purity. Beecher’s is best known for its award-winning, one-year aged Flagship cheese and for its nationally recognized “World’s Best” Mac & Cheese. Beecher ’s Handmade Cheese 1600 Pike Place Seattle, Washington 98101 (206) 956-1964staff@beecherscheese.com Store Hours: Daily 9:00am to 6:00pm Website: www.beecherscheese.com Located in the Pike Place Market on the corner of Pike Place and Pine Street. -- back to the top -- The Gregory family's Black Sheep Creamery was born from a desire to provide one of the family's sons with sheep's milk instead of cow's milk.
Black Sheep CreameryPO Box 293Adna, WA 98522(360) 520-3397 cheese@blacksheepcreamery.com Dee Creek Farm P.O. The Permaculture Project LLC. Sukita - Green Building and Natural Building in Portland Oregon - Sukita | Green Building, Natural Building in Portland Oregon, Adobe and Earthen floors and walls. Washington Associations - Washington State Yearbook. Associations This is a topical listing of selected associations and organizations located in Washington State.
Only groups with a web site are included and inclusion does not imply endorsement by the Washington State Library. Agriculture |Animals | Botany | Business & Industry & Professional |Culture & Religion | Education | Environment | Government | History & Genealogy | Hobbies | Information Technology | Law & Law Enforcement | Libraries, Literature & Publishing | Medicine & Health Care |Social Issues | Sports | Transportation Agriculture Animals Botany Business & Industry & Professional Culture & Religion Education Environment Government History & Genealogy Hobbies Information Technology Law, Law Enforcement & Public Safety Libraries, Literature & Publishing Medicine & Health Care Social Issues Sports & Recreation Transportation. Beginning Farmer & Rancher Program. The Commission's Beginning Farmer/Rancher Program offers help to acquire and improve agricultural property at lower interest rates.
The Commission, in partnership with Northwest Farm Credit Services, is offering tax-exempt bond program loans for qualifying beginning farmers and ranchers that can be combined with other loans, grants and other sources of funds. Media Release: Graduation in Toppenish for first class of farm entrepreneurs 03/18/2014 ADENTRO, a new program from the Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing. Media Release: Tax-Exempt Financing for 31 Acres in Chehalis Descripción del Programa en Español (PDF) Highlights of the Farmer/Rancher Program Cultivate the Soil: Resources for Beginning & Small-Scale Farmers and Ranchers in WA Farm to Cafeteria Connections: Marketing Opportunities for Small Farms in WA WSDA Small Farm and Direct Marketing Handbook Washington State Farmers Market Manual Corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies are ineligible.
Sustainable Farming. Little Gems Lettuce. Khoresht Karafs Ghermez ~ Red Celery Stew. The inspiration for this post came last Tuesday while I was at the Farmers Market going from stand to stand shopping and brainstorming what to make for MPK. Then I saw the gorgeous and leafy head of celery below. Initially I thought to myself, well I already have a regular Khoreshteh Karafs and a Vegetarian Khoreshteh Karafs, so I better keep on going. I couldn’t get the celery out of my head; it simply begged to be made into a delicious celery stew. Then all of a sudden I knew exactly what I was going to do with it.
We have to go back a few years here, I would say probably a good decade. I was invited over to a Persian friend’s house who when invited me announced that his mom was making Khoreshteh Karafs which was a must have. I got all excited because by then I already had fallen deeply in love with this stew. I walked in the door and the whole house smelled delicious and the smell of the stew flirted with our noses as we chatted while the food cooked. Ingridients. Everything Explained At. Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. GRIN National Genetic Resources Program. Native Edibles - Edible & Beautiful Landscapes. Day one design - blog. Welcome to Aprovecho! This year is the first of an annual offering called the Sustainable Shelter Series.
It's an amazing overview of natural construction techniques at a very beautiful place near Cottage Grove, Oregon. I'm here teaching the week-long insulation section of the series. This first picture is of the structure as I arrive to it, a beautiful hybrid timberframe ready for strawbales on the northwall, light clay straw on the east and west and chip-slip infill on the south. Talk about a lot going on in a little playhouse! Bale infill begins the first day Bales make great scaffolding too!
Starting the mud mix for the light clay straw this is a great screen system for a wheelbarrow, I want one of my own! Chinking the bales ramming the straw clay mixing table making slip from the nearby pond's pure clay, what a resource! More mixing! The forms leap-frog up and before you know it, we've got solid walls! Reed mats for forms for the chip-slip sections urbanite foundation for the benches more cob! MHA News - archive. Older Article Archive Article Archive Heater Workshop Announcement Maine Wood Heat April 13-15, Black Mountain, North Carolina Cookstove with Ceramic Glass Top Raivo and Kerri Koppel Heater Workshop with Eric Moshier Grand Marais, Minnesota, February 25 - March 1, 2010 Handmade clay ball Tom Trout Family celebrates winter with 'fire and ice' parties MHA member Jeff Owens and family are featured in Detroit paperThe News-Herald Report From Japan by Hikari Fukazawa Thinking Outside the Dome Contraflow heater by Marcus Flynn Anjou, France Shifting Soil Threatens Homes' Foundations New York Times, March 4/10 Wildacres 2010 Workshop - 5 Run Heater Soapstone/firebrick hybrid, designed for minimum cuts and fast assemblySee throughFront white bake oven Download draft 3-D assembly sequence A Dialogue with Joel - How and why he learned to burn wood better Woodheat.org A laboratory comparison of the global warming impact of five major types of biomass cooking stoves Aprovecho Research Center clay and sand by John Gulland.
Karuna. Karuna >> How we built an Earth Oven Wot £50 callout charge! We couldn't afford to get our gas oven repaired ,so we sold it on e-bay to pay for the fire bricks for our earth oven.It's good to know that someone else is going to recycle it rather than see it go to land fill.This is Low impact,sustainable living,we can now repair our own oven.Having learnt the techqunique we can build an even better oven if we wish.Things just get better!
Whilst visiting St Anns community orchard in Nottingham I was much inspired by the earth oven they had built there.It was a solution to our problem. There is immense educational and practicle value in these ovens. We hope our oven will inspire others to get creative and enter the stream of environmental conciousness that reveals positive change in their lives. Mark & Gisella {Wwoofers} laying firm foundations. These base bricks were salvaged from a nearby property. For mortar we used a mix of Clay,Sand & Hemp. Soma Wondering................... Wow! Janta. Rocket Stoves.. Experimenters corner.. Answers questioned! - The stove at home.. Hand Print Press | Books for Learning by Doing. The National Onion Association. Selecting a Wheel. You might hear a number of opinions on this but we think a clearing of your "mindset" will allow you to understand that this should not be an issue for anyone. Height - our view is this: it does not matter one bit if you are using a wheel that has a round orifice (not a delta style which you will find on Majacraft wheels).
The round orifice allows the spinner to have the yarn approach the opening of the orifice at any angle. This can be straight into the orifice, or any angle up to a 90 degree turn of the yarn as it enters the orifice (not a likely angle, but it works). So if you can imagine holding the hand that controls the twist at an extreme location (for example, at 12, 3, 6, or 9 around the "orifice" clock), you will find that it works. A normal, comfortable angle is somewhere in a "cone area" out in front of the orifice. Spinning takes place at your hand, not in or at the orifice. Watch this helpful video from Kromski - New Voyager! The Technical Information - Single vs. How to Avoid Crossing Similar Varieties of Heirloom Seeds. Farmrun - media for a farm run america. Farmstead Meatsmith | personal abattoir, butchery, charcuterie and instruction. Wren Country Sticks, shepherds crooks, Walking Sticks, thumb sticks, animal head sticks, walking sticks.
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