With the heat of summer mostly over, we enter what I think of as the “sweet spot” of the season. None of our animals, including the humans, enjoy the heat of summer days. For all of us productivity goes down, but with the pleasantly warm days and cool nights everyone seems happier. There are plenty of crickets and grasshoppers for the chickens to chase and eat, the grass is green and flush with the fall growth, and the cattle are happily grazing.
As we enter the Fall one of our jobs is to fill up the freezer so we have enough food to keep everything in stock for as long as we can until we can start putting more in the freezer early next summer. Stocking up means I begin trying to guess at how many of what cut/product we want to have. I want to ask you what you would like us to offer for your winter cooking.
For example, do you prefer whole chickens or chicken cuts? We have to decide how many whole chickens to put in the freezer and how many birds we want to cut up into pieces. We have similar choices for beef and pork: with grilling season behind us do we trade in our Delmonico steaks for a prime rib roast, or pork chops for a pork loin roast? We would like to hear from you, please email me and let me know your thoughts.
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