Air's Wild Acres
Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.
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What’s for dinner?
There’s a running joke on social media around the concept of dinner, and specifically, what one might be having for that particular meal. Especially for those of us without kids, the primary form of small talk after a long day at work may center around that evening’s meal, and what novel foodstuff you may be… Read more
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Good Chicken Tastes Better Than That.
Earlier this month, I harvested some chickens. I don’t often talk about butchering animals, mainly because knowing that a friend willingly takes the life of other creatures can be an unsettling thing to learn. Many of you who follow my social media have known me long before I started Air’s Wild Acres; while it might… Read more
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A Vote for Agriculture is a Vote for All of US
Current Mood, October 2, 2024: After receiving an email about the onsite certification I have to go through to ensure my egg laying animals are living in a context that provides them “adequate space,” I’m annoyed (again), by the requirements of an animal confinement law that was voted on and passed when I didn’t even… Read more
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What I learned in 6 days of straight driving
I have a backlog of things I’ve written over the past few years and never posted on my blog. This morning, I was looking for an entirely different piece I had started a week or two ago, about butchering chickens, and found this one in my archive. It seems fitting today, as we are going… Read more
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A Stressful Kidding Season Comes to an End.
Our kidding season started 38 days ago, with our first healthy baby born to Phoebe on January 17. Rachel the Goat followed two weeks later, on February 3, with two healthy babies. I always have to travel in mid-February for work, and luckily, based on dwarf Nigerian gestation and when Bangs paid special attention to… Read more
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It’s National Cheese Lover’s Day!
I always thought I loved cheese, but I didn’t realize how much I really loved cheese until I started making it. Much like everything in the food system these days, what you find at the grocery store is such a tiny subset of the diversity that exists among cheeses. The USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS,… Read more
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