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Meat Birds in 2024?

We have toyed around with growing chickens and ducks for meat and I think 2024 is going to be the year to do it. Chickens: The breed we will attempt to secure for the chickens will be ‘Freedom Rangers’ which are a larger, dual use bird. They won’t get as big as the ones you …

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Meat Birds and Custom Processing Rates

Meat birds that Dynamite Harvest raises will be professionally processed by Greenwood Meadows, located in Greenwood, WI.  We will charge a per pound rate for a bird and then the processing fee is added to that. Before we take your bird in for processing, you will have the opportunity to specify how you want it …

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Conclusion of the 2023 Pro-Life Produce Program

In 2023, Dynamite Harvest donated 82 bags of produce to about 26 women. People donated about $3,000 to the program this year, and as of this delivery, the value of all the bags delivered is $3,056. My wife and I had the opportunity to attend the annual banquet hosted by First Choice Pregnancy Resource Center …

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Pro-life Produce Update September 2023

Our program is winding down for the year but we are already looking ahead to next year! One change we will make is that we will start weighing the produce, just to give us a better idea how much produce is being donated. We estimate that most of the donations to this point have come …

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Pro-life Produce Update – August 2023

Donated to date: 57 bags of produce, averaging a value of $25, to 26 women (multiple times). Dynamite Harvest made a commitment to donate produce to one crisis pregnancy center in 2022 and, thanks to generous donors, was able to expand that commitment to two additional ones in 2023. The growing season is very much …

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Pro-life Produce Update, July 2023

We had hoped to have a lot more produce earlier in the season, and our initiative to provide fresh produce to crisis pregnancy centers was one of the reasons why.  What happened? Too much rain in May… could not get into the fields. Big long dry spell in June… the baby plants struggled to get …

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News from the Farm – June 26

I, personally, thank the good Lord for the rain we received over the weekend. It was sorely needed. While I don’t feel that anything in the fields was in danger of being lost due to lack of moisture, I could tell things were thirsty. Garlic Scape Pesto 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 3 Tbsp. fresh …

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News From the Farm – June 17

Good evening everyone. What goes creak, groan, sigh, and Zzzzz? Answer: Jake   Jake’s kids: Daddy? Jake: Yes… Jake’s kids: Could you please tell us a story? Jake: Once there was on old man who lived in a woods… Jake’s kids: Daddy! Wake up! Jake: Zzzzz…Oh! What? What were we doing?   Enough silliness. I …

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News from the Farm – June 10

Happy Spring…or Summer? Good day to you all. I sit here writing, and listening intently for the sound of raindrops on the roof. Any moment now it should start…right? This spring has been full of challenges. And while I will touch on some of them, I would also like to share some of the positives …

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News from the Farm – May 25

  Good afternoon all, It seems like an awful long time since I last updated you as to what has been going on and what we are looking forward to. Here is the short version… Rain, rain, rain. Then a little dry spell. More rain. Seeding carrots, beets, spinach, corn, beans, cantaloupe, watermelon, winter squash, …

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