The rain was slapping down on the windshield with an uncharacteristically heavy splat as we pulled out of the farm driveway on the way to Saturday morning’s farmers’ market. The edges of each drop on the glass were beginning to gel and freeze, an ominous sign about the day ahead. Bob and I had left […]
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The Good Life Can Be a Messy Life
I woke up this morning and came down to my office. I should have done yoga. I should have meditated. Instead, I fixed my attention on the woodstove. It’s late May, for Pete’s sake, I shouldn’t need a fire. But I couldn’t stop shivering. I stumbled through the dark outside until I had some kindling […]
One Chicken, Three Meals
A single whole chicken, used correctly, will generate several meals By Shannon Hayes Pardon the pun, but the one cut of meat I am most likely to see a new customer “bawk” at is a whole chicken. Our price for whole birds last year was over $6/lb, 35% less than a pound of grassfed ground beef. […]
A Celebration of the Casserole
The following excerpt is taken from Shannon Hayes’ newest book, Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lover’s Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously. When I was in graduate school, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview school food service directors from around New York State. My most memorable conversation was with […]
Health Lessons from a Local Diet
For nearly 20 years now, I’ve been fully immersed in the local food movement, investigating and promoting the ways that it helps to heal the earth, build community resilience, improve local relationships, enable healthier partnerships between humans and livestock, and improve our well-being. That last attribute has been an interesting sticking point for our family […]
But can we feed the world?
Photo by Seth Joel Sooner or later the question comes up, whether it is between two friends sharing a pot of stew made from local grassfed beef and their garden harvest, livestock farmers gathered on a pasture walk, neighbors working together to tend a flock of backyard chickens, or organic vegetable producers discussing yields at […]
Getting Saucy: Stretching Your Meat Budget with Gravies and Reductions
By Shannon Hayes I’m not sure where it all started. Maybe it was back during the Norman Conquest. But no matter how you look at, in spite of their relative cooperation and neighborliness since the Crimean war, the French and the English still have a major long- running dispute: the best way to dress a […]
12 Books for the Holidays
With Christmas right around the corner, a few of you may be looking for some possible gift ideas, while others of you might be looking for some good suggestions for library books to check out during your holiday break. The real cheap skates among you may even be looking for library book suggestions that you […]
Can We Eat Meat in an Ecological and Economic Crisis? Yes.
Can we eat meat in an ecological and economic crisis? Yes. October 9, 2012 Tags: radical homemaking, grassfed cooking, grassfed meat, sustainable agriculture, Tuesday Post Thirty-plus years as grassfed meat farmers has taught my family to anticipate unpredictability. One minute we’re in floods. The next, drought. One minute livestock farmers are accused of being cruel […]
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times
Sirloin Tip: Juicy Steak for Lean Times August 15, 2012 Tags: grassfed cooking, Tuesday Post Just a few weeks remain before the release of my newest cookbook, Long Way on a Little, which focuses on helping home cooks stretch their meat dollars as far as possible. Perhaps it is a reflection of these hard economic […]
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