Raising Meat Birds In The Fall- Shelter

     As I wrote in Part 1 of this series, we started raising our broilers in the fall. We have found it less labor intensive because the weather is so much more comfortable for us and the broilers. No more birds keeling over from heat stroke and we are not scalding and plucking, fighting our own sweat and bugs!

State Fair Dairy Products Competition of 2023

           Very few probably know this, but our state competition for dairy products at the fair is pretty well attended. I think the secret to that lies with the fact that all cheese plants fall under the same inspector and he highly encourages all the Kentucky plants to enter. It's an enormously fun mishmash of small, medium, and large producers, all in one room. Products processed range from fluid milk, to butter and cheese, to yogurt and ice cream. 

Maid-N-Meadows: Summer 2023 Update

       It seems like updates are becoming fewer and farther apart! I started this blog because I wanted to connect with people. I looked for other families online with lives similar to my own and found some! But I wanted to find more. And because I looked for others, I was hoping that others would look for me!!! I laugh when I write that because "me"/"I" am changing as I walk through the seasons of life. Who I was when I started this blog is not who I am now. And so when I began writing just now, I had to think about "who" am I writing to and why. 

I'm completely drenched from unloading groceries in a downpour. Why didn't I just wait? I'm a nut!