12.22.09
Oganic Farm processing Kitchen
I truely apollogize for the sporatic way that I have been keeping up with my blogging duties since November, but I have been spending every waking moment building an Organic Farm processing Kitchen by my-self from the ground up ( the only one of its kind in the State of Oklahoma) I hope to have it completed by April 15th of 2010, but as funds are short, I may not be able to achieve this ambitious goal on schedule without help to buy more materials to carry on construction. We break our Organic Garden with a mule named Jeff and dig our water lines by hand with a shovel. We use no weed killers, chemical fertilizers, or pesticides. It is our belief that what goes in is what you get out. We are fortunate in that we are able to farm in the Dry Creek valley and because of this, our soils are rich and deep. Our rich soils are amended only by the use of turnip greens and litter collected from the roosts of our free range chickens – who by the way, turn their noses up at chicken scratch and laying pellets, in favor of the earth worms and beetles they scratch up through all day trecks in the leafy woods. Their eggs tend to rip egg cartons upon attemps to close them over the abnormally large country eggs; a thing that always amazes our customers. As we are a small farm, we cannot afford a tractor, and so, we do all our labor by hand via horse and mule power. This takes an incredible amount of effort, but the sound of tugs and trace chains and the rising dust of freshly broken ground are so incredibly Earthy, that it is somehow worth every blister, just to experience this spiritual connection between beast, man, and Earth. It has been said that, ” A man who does a thing he truely loves, never works a day in his life. If a task is truely enjoyable, it is never a burden.
