Chicken at Natural Harvest
Anne Carter, the manager of Natural Harvest Food Co-op (you don't have to be a member to shop there!) in Virginia, Mn normally handles local chicken from south of Eveleth, but the Sopps were out of birds til the late summer or fall. So, Bear Creek Acres is filling the gap for a couple months.
The chickens are in the freezer case near all the pork products that we sell at the Co-op. After you try one, be sure and let me know how you fixed it. I love hearing all the fun ways people cook our meat. The other day one of our customers says she seasoned one up with herbs, split the chicken so it would lay flat (like an open book, I imagined) and then pressed it with a couple of bricks wrapped in tin foil! Sounded lovely. I generally just rinse it off, season it with garlic, pepper, and Season Salt, and toss it on the grill ....no trussing, no stuffing. Just a simple delicious meal a couple hours later.
Our chickens are raised outside on pasture. Their shelter are little portable huts called chicken tractors. They eat grass and bugs and run around. The feed they get is a nice clean grain with no antibiotics, hormones or animal products.
We raise safe, tastey, humanely raised meat for your family and ours!
