Tag: chicken
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What is a Chick Brooder?
And how are we improving the Chick Brooder at Good Soil Farm? At Good Soil Farm, we raise our chickens on pasture. That’s what makes them pastured poultry. To “count” as pastured poultry, the birds must be raised on pasture for AT LEAST 51% of their lives. Chickens raised for meat have a relatively short…
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Easy Ratatouille Casserole
Ratatouille started as a simple peasant dish. It can be as complex as you like, but it can also be quite easy! We’ve been making the easy version this summer! If you want to make it heartier, try adding a layer of sauteed mushrooms, ground lamb, or shredded chicken–from Good Soil Farm of course! 😉…
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My Tuesday Veggie Dinner Challenge
As you may have noticed, I try to use my mushrooms from the Mushroom Add-On from Davis-Highlands Orchard & Farm on Tuesday nights. This is partly because, you guessed it, I am trying to showcase the mushrooms of the week in case anyone wants to buy some extra on Thursday! But it’s also because it…
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Moving Chickens on Pasture
Why Move the Chickens? One of the keys to healthy chickens is frequent movement on good, clean pastures. This provides the chickens with bugs, grasses and other greens, sunlight, and fresh air. It ensures that they are never sitting in their own feces. It also helps heal the soil by improving organic matter proportionate to…
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What’s NOT in the Chicken Feed?
Recently we received an email from a customer and friend of ours asking if we knew whether or not the feed we give our chickens is tested for arsenic. We passed this question along to our feed supplier, Josh Ernst, of Ernst Grain & Livestock in Clear Spring, MD. No Arsenic Josh answered, “We have…
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Learn More About Pasture-Raised Poultry
At Good Soil Farm LLC, we are proud members of APPPA–American Pastured Poultry Producers Association. Here are two GREAT videos that talk about the Pasture-Raised difference! Enjoy!
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What’s So Great About Pastured Poultry?
At Good Soil Farm we want to provide you with a source for the best food you can find! And that means we look at the animals as what God created them to be—not hunks of walking meat that are treated like they are in a factory or lab. It is in the nature of…