08.28.08
“How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.” ~ William Blake
Food
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From Family Flock to Homegrown Food
Island Grown Initiative (IGI), a not-for-profit, is helping local backyard farmers on Martha's Vineyard feed their families.
In this trial run of IGI's Mobile Poultry Processing Trailer, three flock owners bring their birds to a neutral site to be humanely and cleanly processed into food for their families. In regulatory language, this is a 'custom only' event, ie: not for sale. IGI's trained team handles the process to ensure quality control. The growers participate in the processing and in the end, take their own dressed birds home for bagging.
In the 'Pack in Pack out' process - each family is also responsible for the removal of compostables, back to their property for proper composting. The equipment is cleaned and sanitized between flocks. In total, seventy-eight cornish rock hens are humanely handled and safely processed. Now, three backyard farmers have their own food in their own freezers for their own families.
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Edible Wild Plants, by Linsey Lee is quite a timeless book. It's
both a work of cultural art and a cultural artifact. This excerpt focusses
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Joel Salatin of PolyFace Farm presents a case for a self-sustaining island agriculture using existing island land and a pasture-based system.
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Island Grown Initiative, IGI, held an all-day educational "Poultry" event at the new Ag Hall, Saturday February 16th.
Upwards of 60 people at any one time listened to speakers and shared their experiences on growing egg-layers, meat birds and heritage hens. What birds to raise, how to pasture chickens and protect them from predators and the design and construction of mobile pasture "tractors" were some of the generous discussions. In all, it was an informative community exchange of knowhow and insight.
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This picture was taken to represent the differences between local and imported foods.
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Lobsters caught locally by lobsterman Christopher Stien. Oppossed to canned crab meat from the west coast in down Island Cronigs.
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