June's meat share

It's exciting to finally hit summer. When I arrived at the Chestnut Farms meat pickup, there were still tons of eggs, from happy, warm chickens. I'm still amazed at how much egg production drops off in the winter.

I had a nice chat with Rich about the St. Bernard puppies from the last open house in the fall. Apparently all the puppies went to CSA members, and they are all 100 pounds now. 6 months ago they were little babies you could sit in your lap. Apparently, even at 100 pounds, they want to sit in your lap. Sadly, but responsibly, there aren't going to be any more pups. Check out the post from last fall's open house to see pictures of the little ones.

I'm really looking forward to this year's open house in a couple weeks! Kim says that everything has moved again. It sounds like they're doing some good canning too.

The farm newsletter had some interesting information about the fight against organic, which is of course is by lobbyists only. Monsanto is trying to get its genetically modified food into various world markets, and various world markets just say no. Aside from the Monsanto stuff, the Mid-America Crop Life Association, an organization for pesticides, is all kinds of upset that Michelle Obama has an organic garden. Oh, the horror!

I love the farm newsletter, and you can sign up for it here.

I have upped my share to 15 pounds and will be sharing it. This has many of the smaller packages, plus a couple of larger cuts:

• 1 maple sugar cured bone-in ham steak.
• 1 package of 2 pork chops.
• 1 package of 3 breakfast sausages.
• 1 package of hickory smoked bacon (without nitrate or nitrites, yay!).
• 3 packages of beef loin top sirloin steak.
• 1 beef top round roast.
• 1 whole chicken.

Oh my goodness, I am hungry.