This is a blog post encouraging you to be undecided. For now.
And in your indecision, I hope you will seek new and current information from many sides of an issue that has potential to be a significant food issue both legislatively and morally. The stakes are high, regardless of the attitude or beliefs you have now or may take on.
Frederick J. Dunn offers advice and links on choosing chicken breeds as spring approaches, courtesy of Mother Earth News:
I keep both ornamental and dual-purpose poultry. Ornamental birds are just that, nice to look at and be entertained by — or even to show in competition for those interested in the “poultry fancy.” My recommendations for dual-purpose (meat and eggs) are traditional breeds: the Rhode Island red and barred Plymouth rock. Both (rocks and reds) are independent on open range, forage well, produce eggs in abundance and (if you choose) will make flavorful table fare. In fact, the ALBC hosted Renewing America’s Food Traditions blind taste test, and the barred Plymouth rock was most preferred.
The blooming of some mosses and other flora give the moon its name this month.
I don’t know where this is going to end up.
I first thought the ducks, once grown, would live on the pond. My concern about possible predators and the ducks becoming midnight snacks for coyotes had me thinking of a floating duck house. Then the option of building or perhaps buying a dog house kit — and starting the ducks in the pen, and moving them to the pond.
In December 2009 world leaders meet in Copenhagen to agree on a post-Kyoto policy for tackling climate change. One billion people voting with their light switch during Earth Hour will create a powerful mandate for our leaders to take strong and decisive action on climate change in Copenhagen.
Earth Hour is asking bloggers to help spread
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Page 137: on pasture raised poultry
I can’t resist an aside. The mindset that leads to consolidation in agriculture, so evident in the chicken business, has also taken place in an alarming degree in human culture, especially in consolidated schooling. Just as we herd more animals into confinement buildings, we herd more children into classrooms. Then
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WASHINGTON — On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.
via Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable
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Hank Shaw, at Hunter Angler Gardener Cook offers a look into the world of “honest food” as he describes it. A well versed writer, sportsman, and site editor about About.com’s Fish and Seafood Cooking site, he bios himself:
I am especially interested in those meats and veggies that people don’t eat much any more, like venison
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The first day of Spring is March 20. Called the vernal equinox, it is the moment in the spring when the Earth’s axis is neither tilted toward or away from the Sun. Equinoxes occure twice each year, once in spring and once in autumn.
Simple pleasures gain ground | csmonitor.com
a growing group of Americans who are finding it cathartic to unplug from the digital grid, at least temporarily. While there is no exact data to track how many people are forming knitting groups, hosting house concerts, or organizing family game nights, it is possible to connect the dots between
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