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Tastes just like chicken

We are just finishing up a weekend of very, very hard work. It was the weekend for getting everyone their Thanksgiving turkeys and the last of the year’s chickens. What made all the hard work so much easier was the opportunity to talk with the people who have been enjoying our chickens all summer.

We were told over and over by almost everyone how amazing our chicken tastes. This contrasts dramatically with comments I get from others who can’t imagine that there could possibly be a reason to purchase chicken anywhere but the grocery store. I’ve tried to describe it to non-believers a number of ways. The best I could ever come up with is that our birds taste just like chicken, only chicken-ier. I wish I could explain it better, but there’s no way to describe the taste difference between our birds and the ones in the store.

It’s like the difference between a grocery store tomato in the middle of winter and one picked fresh from your garden on a beautiful summer day.

A bag of frozen strawberries or a basket fresh from the farmer’s market sold to you by the little 12-year-old girl that helped to pick them that morning.

Canned corn versus U-Pick corn rushed straight into a pot of boiling water.

Think about it in these terms. Of course there’s a difference. Now, think about poultry. You can have chicken that’s been raised indoors – even if it was raised humanely – or you can eat chicken that as soon as it was old enough to leave the brooder, had fresh green grass, juicy tasty bugs, fresh air and sunshine.

How could it not taste better?

Farm News, Tidbits | greengrassliving | November 10, 2009 7:59 am

1 Comment

By Sustainable Eats, November 17, 2009 @ 12:12 am

And don’t forget the lack of soy in the feed! These chickens eat a diet closer to what a wild chicken would eat so they are healthier and healthier for you. Thanks so much for raising our food – we can’t wait to eat the turkey!