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Blog Authors are employed or involved with Polyface. However, posts will cover a large genre of topics. Statements, ideas and opinions may differ somewhat from practices, beliefs and vision of Polyface.
Monday’s Chick
Jill enjoys traveling, road trips, camping, photography, cooking, and spending time with her friends and family.
Tuesday’s Chick
Brie enjoys farming, gardening, photography, and cooking.
Wednesday’s Chick
Heather enjoys gardening, farming, cooking, crocheting, embroidery, and being with family and friends.
Thursday’s Chick
Leanna enjoys farming, gardening, knitting, spinning, baking, and anything that has to do with the homesteading lifestyle.
Friday’s Chick
Sheri enjoys family, reading, writing, baking, sewing, scrapbooking, knitting, gardening, canning, and is very active in her church.
Saturday’s Chick
Wendy enjoys farming, cooking, making pies & homemade preserves, gardening, knitting and having fun with her daughter Madelyn.
Sunday’s Chick
Erin enjoys cooking, gardening, knitting, sewing, housework, spinning, being outdoors and spending time with family and friends.
Tag Archives: news article
Joel’s trip to NY with Chris Valerio
Yesterday I flew to New York City to be Chris Valerio’s guest on herBloomberg Television show, airing this weekendat the following times: Friday night at 6:00pm, 8:00pm, 11:30pm ET. The show re-airs Saturday at 1:30am, 2:30am, 4:30am,7:30am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 10:30pm and Sunday at 12:30am, 3:00am, 4:00am, 6:30am, 8:30am, 9:30am, 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm. … Read the Rest
The Washington Post
More on ABC Nightline from Joel…
The license a story teller uses to include or exclude material can have a huge bearing on the story’s impact. ABC Nightline was out yesterday and did an 18 minute interview but used less than 1 minute of it. And while I’m not asking to hog the time here (no pun intended) I think what … Read the Rest
Fighting for local food at Virginia Tech
Context: Virginia Tech created a new position called a sustainability director in dining services Oct. 1, 2008, and hired Andy Sarjahani to fill it. He has been aggressive and made remarkable changes in a few short months.Last month he exchanged battery eggs from Pennsylvania with Virginia cage-free (a far cry from pastured, but we take … Read the Rest
Food, Inc.
FOOD INC. is a 90-minute documentary you’ll be hearing a lot aboutand it features Polyface Farm. I was invitedby the producers and distributors to participate with them in one ofthe first USA screenings Friday night at a huge filmfestival in Durham, NC. Eric Schlosser, author of FAST FOOD NATION (the number 1 sellingAmerican book of … Read the Rest
Polyface Eggs really are the best!
For those of you who have recently joined the buying clubs, you might not have seen this study done on Polyface eggs. The Study was conducted by The Mother Earth News Magazine at a lab in Seattle and was publicized Oct/Nov 2007 in the magazine. The below compares Polyface Eggs with the USDA standard egg: … Read the Rest
Faith of our Farmers
Zynodoah’s Restaurant
Zynodoah’s Restaurant started serving Polyface chicken and chicken livers this summer. They are a fairly new restaurant located right here in Staunton. If you are ever in the area, we would encourage you to try them out. They are the only restaurant in the Staunton area that serves Polyface meats for dinner. (Cranberries serves breakfast … Read the Rest
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