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Weekly Roundup

Here are some quick links for the week: Disappointingly, the Salem City Council rejected ordinances that would have allowed chickens within city limits. I wonder if the opponents of the plan have ever actually visited any normal backyard chicken coops. Their arguments seem to be based heavily on fear-mongering. Wine Country Thanksgiving –More than 140 wineries and tasting rooms in the Willamette Valley will be open during Thanksgiving Weekend (most open 11am-5pm, November 27-29, but hours may vary, so call ahead). Meet winemakers, experience special tastings and enjoy specialty food and live entertainment. Click here for a complete list of participating wineries and tasting rooms. I made sweet roasted rosemary acorn squash this week, and it was fabulous. You should try it immediately. Go ahead, I’ll wait here… Heavenly Harvest Farm in Corvallis is having their Harvest Festival through Saturday. The College of Agricultural Sciences at OSU is once...

Pantry Update

By Kate

This week I got my second delivery from Noris Dairy, and I’m a happy customer! I’m combining orders with a friend who stops by my house after work to pick up her items from the cooler on my front porch. We did this to more easily reach the $18 minimum purchase amount, and it means only one stop for the driver. We also decided against a fixed, weekly delivery and instead just place an order every two weeks. We take care of the whole transaction online. I can place the order through their website and pay via Paypal, and then I send my friend an e-mail with her total, and she reimburses me via Paypal as well. Very convenient and quick! No rummaging around for checks, which I really like. So far my husband and I have tried the 2% milk, chocolate milk, Monterey Jack cheese, and regular salted...

Our girls were in the local paper!

By Kate

The Gazette Times ran a story about city chickens on October 4th and quoted my husband and me. There were photos – including one of my husband feeding our hens — in the paper version but they unfortunately did not make it into the online version. Talking about being newbie chicken-raisers is enjoyable, but there’s a lot to it that can’t be communicated in the limited space of a newspaper article. If you are interested in raising hens, I would not hesitate to encourage you to look into it, but really look into it and plan ahead. For instance, with regards to building a coop — we did not plan far enough in advance and ended up buying all our materials, rather than obtaining recycled items, which would have been my preference. We were just taken off guard by how suddenly they needed to be out of the house,...

Egg nutrition – source please, AFP!

By Kate

Yesterday I read this article from AFP entitled “Americans turn to backyard chickens for food security“. It was a good article, talking about how the sale of chicks is up in Idaho and Washington states, as well as Oregon. It touched on the misconception that raising chickens for the eggs is going to be a less expensive option than store-bought eggs. And then the article just crashed and burned at the end: All contention aside, experts say there is little nutritional difference between homegrown and commercial eggs. Colors in the shell are different, with the bulk of commercial hens producing white-shelled eggs and backyard varieties everything from brown to light green, and pigments in the feed of backyard flocks tend to deepen the yellow of their yolks. WHAT? What contention? What experts? Who? Why? How? Granted, this wasn’t the focus of the article. The focus was food security. (To...

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Posts Tagged ‘ Chicken ’

Weekly Roundup

Pantry Update

Our girls were in the local paper!

Egg nutrition – source please, AFP!

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