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ShowMeTheCurry.com offers this video (via YouTube) showing how to make paneer, a fresh Indian-style cheese that’s much like ricotta. It’s easy! For a cloth, we use “flour sack cloth” that they sell at the local 99 Cent store.
They also suggest using the leftover whey as a vegetarian stock instead of chicken or beef. [...]
Another glimpse into the past, this time to the fundos of Chile in 1949.
“Almost all of Chile’s arable land is in single great land holdings of 5,000 to 50,000 acres, in vivid contrast to the small farms of North America where the owner and his family do most of the work.”
True perhaps in 1949, but [...]
Made in 1948, this film discusses the post-war program to develop “The Chicken of Tomorrow”– the chickens we buy in stores today. I doubt they realized at the time that the chicken industry would be completely changed, based on mono-crops raised in confined spaces. Already, the methods displayed in the film show chickens confined, unable to [...]
Made in 1951, this short film produced by the Farm Journal reminds us how different agriculture was just 50 years ago. It shows the bias of its time: that electricity would solve all our problems when in fact gas is much more efficient for heating. Bigger was presumed to be better. And I’m amazed at [...]
In honor of the winter weather. (It was -25 degrees at home this morning!)
Do chickens cry? Ours are getting old– too old to lay– so recently we gave most of them to a farm that offers field trips to school children. Our Delawares are very friendly, perfect for kids.
When they were gone, a hen named Blue (Suellen’s favorite) cried for hours. I have never heard a chicken cry [...]