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How To Make A Simple, Citrus Vinaigrette:
Step 1: Finely dice shallots.
Step 2: Macerate shallots with lemon, lime or orange juice for 20 minutes.
Step 3: Add a pinch of salt, pepper and sugar. Slowly drizzle in olive oil, whisking constantly. Taste. Adjust seasoning if necessary.
Visual Tour of Polyface Farm:
Meat birds live on grass under floorless pens. Every morning Joel Salatin drags the pen to a fresh patch of grass. Each patch of grass rests 364 days before a group of chickens feeds on it again.
Joel Salatin dragging one of his floorless chicken pens.
The Eggmobile
The eggmobile houses laying hens. It follows the herd of cattle, arriving to grass they've grazed on four days earlier.The hens peck at the four-day-old cow pies, eating various insects, larvae and parasites - rich sources of protein - and accomplishing a whole lot more along the way: By eating the fly larvae and parasites, they rid the land of potential pathogens and disease; by scratching through the droppings and spreading them across the grass, they enable the manure to sink into the ground and fertilize the soil; and by eating the pesky insects, they reduce the presence of one of the cows' biggest irritants.
Joel Salatin
Salatin, surrounded by his laying hens, explains the cow-chicken symbiosis on his farm. Salatin refers to his laying hens as his "sanitation crew."
Shademobile
Cows graze on a fresh patch of grass every day, enclosed by portable electric fencing. This portable shademobile travels to each new patch of grass too, always allowing the cows shelter from the sun.
Gobledygo
The gobledygo, a portable shelter for turkeys, also follows the cows. The same symbiotic relationship described above exists between these turkeys and the cows.
The Raken House
Rabbits and chickens coexist in the Raken House. Rabbits live in cages suspended from the ceiling. Chickens roam around on the ground below, scratching the bedding, performing the same "sanitation" duties as described above with the cows.
The Raken House
In the center of the Raken House stand trough-like structures where the hens lay their eggs.
The Raken House
Salatin holds a baby rabbit for a little girl to see.
The Barn
Joel Salatin stands in the open-sided shelter where his cows spends a portion of the winter. During the winter, the cows eat hay (dried grass accumulated throughout the growing season), and live on a bedding consisting of woodchips, sawdust and old hay to absorb the cows' excrement. When the heavy cows tread on their nitrogen-rich manure and on the carbon-rich bedding, packing it together, they allow the mixture to ferment (anaerobic composting). By adding corn to the bedding, Salatin entices his pigs to turn the bedding into compost: When the cows return to pasture in March, the pigs dig through the densely packed bedding, searching for the tasty fermented corn, aerating the pile and turning it into compost for the spring.
The Happiest Pigs Ever
Pigs on Polyface Farm are "finished" in the forest. They spend their final weeks feasting on high-protein nuts and tree bark. This diet purportedly gives their meat great flavor as well as makes their fat healthier — Salatin calls this meat "olive oil pork."
How To Cut a Lemon or A Lime
Step 1: Cut straight down, just to the right of center.
Step Two:
Turn so the cut side is flat on the board. Make another cut just to the right of center.
Step Three:
Repeat step two: Turn; and cut straight down just to the right of center.
Step Four
Turn one last time; cut straight down to the right of center.
Last Step:
Discard center; trim sides if desired.
