October
2009
Quick Update0
Halloween is around the corner and so is the last Idaho Falls Farmers Market of the season. Many people asked us last week if we would make it to the next market and so far it looks as if we will. We still have peppers and tomatoes to sell as well as green leaf lettuce, arugula, radish, kale, colard greens, chard, and spinach. Not a bad mix for this late in the year if I do say so myself. Don’t worry if you miss the last market, we will be stocking the Eagle rock Co-Op as often as possible.
We still have chickens available around the end of November. We brought in 300 chicks and have been raising them in one of our greenhouses. They have taken up a little over a third of our smaller greenhouse and are doing a good job of turning the soil, rooting out all the bugs, and fertilizing for the next crop. They are still fairly small for commercial standards. Last time we weighed a few they came out to average around 2lbs each. According to commercial production guides we are behind the growth curve but this doesn’t bother us. We are feeding them grass, apples, a commercial grain mix, and plentifull supplies of worms they scratch from the greenhouse floor. No commercial operation would do things this way I suppose, its not efficent and economical enough. We also have them in twice the recomended space for full grown adult 8 lb birds. I can’t imagine having those birds 4 times the size they are now and living in half the space. Well so much for effiency eh? If your interested in some fresh or frozen chickens fill out an interest form by clicking here. They will be $2.50 per lb and can range from 4-8 or more lbs. As I mentioned earlier they should start becoming available around the end of November.
Hope to see many of you at this weeks farmers market, if not I am sure we will see you around.
Dewayne Arave