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Durksen Farm Update – August 29, 2015 – Farmer Sausage Arrives!
www.durksenfarm.com Finally we received our farmer sausage! Just arrived out of the smokehouse at Unger Meats. We are also seeing some brisk sales on many of our other pork products, especially bacon, breakfast sausages and other things. Order soon to … Continue reading
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Durksen Farm Update – August 15, 2015 – Hand Pollinating Squashes, New Pork Products
Today we received more of our pork products: bacon, ham, back bacon, smokies, chorizos, butt steaks and roasts and some salami. See our Products page for info on pricing. Please note that some prices will be changing as we … Continue reading
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Durksen Farm Update – August 8, 2015 – Chickens and Pork Ready, Brinning Chicken
Our freezers are overflowing with chickens and pork! The bacon, ham, smokies and butt steaks will be another week or so, and the farmer sausage will still be a couple of weeks. We do have some superb breakfast sausages, chops, … Continue reading
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Farm Update July 7
We are well into the summer now and our garden, chickens and pigs are doing quite well. I have not been very regular with updates to our farm and I would like to start posting weekly updates describing the produce … Continue reading
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Spring is finally here!
Finally the grass is all out from its snowy blanket and the birds are coming around in greater numbers. Our trees are already beginning to bud and the maple sap is flowing for our syrup making! We may even be … Continue reading
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New pigs!
So our sow, Olga, finally had her little ones: eight new pigs! Mom and pigs appear healthy. These little ones should be ready for next spring and summer.
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Free range chickens and pork
We’ve finally got our first pork products back from the butcher and they are very tasty! The sausage and bacon are really extraordinary, though I’m sure I’m biased. This weekend we are also doing our first big slaughter day for … Continue reading
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First fruits of the garden
We are finally getting some products from our garden. We have some nice spaghetti squash, zucchinis coming, peas, and some lettuce. Unfortunately the garden is not doing nearly as well as hoped, partially because of the rain I am sure. … Continue reading
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Garden Planted!!!
Thanks so much to all our friends from Trinity Baptist who came out to help us, we have the vast majority of the garden planted, irrigation in place and fence fixed! It looks great and hopefully we will have lots … Continue reading
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New chicks are here!
Our new chicks for this year have arrived! We have new egg layers, turkeys and meat birds, around 150 in all. Our son Jacob just loves them! We are planning on having them all free range, so our yard will … Continue reading