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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on May 24, 2013, 02:07:22 pm

Title: Polyface Farms
Post by: Rosemary on May 24, 2013, 02:07:22 pm

Totally blown away by this lot. Planning a fact finding trip to Virginia  :innocent:

http://www.polyfacefarms.com/ (http://www.polyfacefarms.com/)

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on May 24, 2013, 06:03:17 pm

Joel Salatin is quite inspirational isn't he. I also like the stuff the chap at Sugar Mountain Farm does. Maybe a bigger trip round North America may be required  ;D

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: benkt on May 24, 2013, 07:49:07 pm

Sounds completely wonderful - I'd love to work  up to something like that - really inspirational!

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 24, 2013, 08:48:51 pm

Sounds good.

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: Rosemary on May 25, 2013, 06:35:06 am

Dan's just ordered the book about the pasture kept poultry. He's really keen to try this - it's the slaughter / procesing that's the issue here not the raising of the birds.

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: fifixx on May 25, 2013, 07:27:40 am

I went to his talk at Petersham Nursuries (won 2 tickets on Twitter!).  Great stuff, very interesting about how the supermarkets dictate so much to farmers - so he sells from the farm which he says is the best along with online selling.

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: Big Light on May 25, 2013, 07:41:00 am

Very interesting
love the sales technique for the old layer hens
STEWING HENS -  "These must be slow cooked in order to be tender."
 :roflanim:

Title: Re: Polyface Farms
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 25, 2013, 09:45:23 pm

They used to be called boiling hens.

When I was at school, our cookery teacher was giving a talk on chickens, which she called fowl. She said, "And then we have boiling fowl." at which my friend whispered, "She's foul. Let's boil her." I got told off for laughing in class.  :(