ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[Pearce Pastures]

Fun! How much meat would you have to sell to cover the cost of the license?

 

[elevan]

It's certainly never a dull moment. back at ya!

 

[elevan]

Fun! How much meat would you have to sell to cover the cost of the license?

15 pounds of goat meat would do it...based on ground prices. Of course less in steaks and ribs.

I really want to do the egg license but I have to have an inspection and get my well tested and a whole lot of hoopla for that one and it's cost is more...that would be a lot of eggs to recoup that cost.

 

[promiseacres]

sounds like a good deal to get your liscense

 

[Vickir73]

I received my seller's license for poultry a couple of months ago, I didn't know you had to get one for meat. Is this strictly for processed meat? Or are you referring to a special license to sell a meat goat? Where do you get all this time? I swear, I don't have enough time during the weekends. The garden is really overgrown because being down about 3 weeks with my back just really killed the "time-management" idea. We are also sorely disappointed with the gardens this year. Nothing is producing the way we had hoped so we won't be canning anything - which is both a blessing and a curse.

 

[elevan]

In OHIO I can sell poultry and meats (inspected) from the farm without a license. In order to sell at the Farmer's markets I have to carry an RFD license and the meat has to be processed in an inspected facility. Eggs in OHIO require a mobile egg license, a well inspection and a farm inspection in order to sell at the markets (I can sell as many as I want from the farm). I don't know the requirements for other states.

Yesterday I canned some Rose Petal Jelly and Chamomile Jelly. Stole my mom's rose petals to make that jelly...shhhh... The roses are blooming so well that I doubt she'll even notice

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

Yummm! So, do you have any of your jelly recipies posted, or are they family secrets?

 

[elevan]

Some are family secrets but the herbals are just a basic herbal recipe.

4 cups water
1 cup herbs / flowers / spices
3 cups sugar
4 Tbsp pectin

 

[elevan]

Ranger, our ND buck, has decided to start jumping the fence to get into the front yard. I've drug him back in 4 times already today.

I hate to say it but if he keeps it up he's going to the freezer. I will not put up with continually dragging an animal back to where it belongs. Unless someone is looking for an unregistered ND buck...if you are PM me - yes, I'm quite serious, by the 4th time he'd made my mind up that he's gone. He jumped it a couple of days ago too, so I know this isn't a one time type of day.

So I guess I'm gonna be in search of a new buck as both of ours are destined to leave for one reason or another. Crossing my fingers that all of our girls are bred - they haven't come (visibly) into heat for a couple of months.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

I have some extra bucks, lol.

That stinks though. What a pistol.