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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Polyface Farms
« 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/

clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #1 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
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

benkt

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Cambridgeshire
    • Hempsals Community Farm
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2013, 07:49:07 pm »
Sounds completely wonderful - I'd love to work  up to something like that - really inspirational!

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2013, 08:48:51 pm »
Sounds good.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #4 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.

fifixx

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Shillingstone, Dorset
    • Bere Marsh Farm
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #5 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.



Big Light

  • Joined Aug 2011
    • Facebook
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #6 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:

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Polyface Farms
« Reply #7 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.  :(

 

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