Check out our YouTube channel for how-to videos!
Books:
- ANYTHING by Joel Salatin (we have read all 11 of his books)
- You Can Farm (great for anyone getting started or who wants to get started!)
- Salad Bar Beef
- Pastured Poultry Profits
- The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry
Videos
- Food, Inc. (this will change the way you look at the current food production model)
- Polyfaces Documentary
- American Meat
Stuff we use every day
Local Food
- Bowers Farm – Pomaria, S.C.
- Various Pastured Meats
- Countryside Creamery – Pomaria, S.C.
- Happy Cow Creamery – Pelzer, S.C.
- Dairy products
- Grass-fed beef cooking tips
- LocalHarvest.org Find local food and farms
- Hazelwood Farms – great local source for raw milk (that’s all we drink)
Building Supplies
- Willinghams Hardware – Newberry, S.C.
- locally owned and operated with prices better than the big boys
Poultry Processing and Equipment
- Our Processing Shed
- Killing Cones by Featherman
- Shrink Bags
- B7 Bag Sealer
- Whiz-Bang Chicken Plucker
- Poultry Scalding Vat by Dux Industries
- Grower’s Discount Labels
- Video: Our poultry processing process
- Video: How to eviscerate a chicken
- Poultry Evisceration with Joel Salatin
- Poultry cut-ups with Daniel Salatin
- Push-in Style Nipple Waterers from QC supply
- PoultryNet by Premier 1 (we use the 164′ long, double spike version)
Websites
- EatWild.com
- Polyface Farms
- Weston A Price Foundation
- Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund (we are members)
Hatchery
I attended the Polyface Intensive Discovery Seminar in July, 2016.
