Spring Creek Blog
2024 Preorders are here!
Instead of repeating last year's "Preorder are here message", I'll be lazy and link it. 2023 Preorders are here! Let's talk about changes instead, they are few but important. I am still not raising beef, but I think I have found a grower as fanatical as I am. I'm...
2023 Preorders are here!
I raise my own protein. I don’t trust anyone else to do it at my fanatic level. Fanatic to me means, happy animals, fed the best locally sourced food in a way that is good for them and the land they are raised on, without drugs or hormones and processed without...
How to Cure Bacon
How to cure bacon When you buy a pig from a small producer, you pay a fee to make bacon. The bacon you get is delicious, but you can do better at home with these simple instructions. It is fun and you can play with the flavor. 1 Boneless Pork Belly (skinless)1 Ziploc...
Incubating Chicken Eggs: Step 2, Setting the Eggs
We followed the process of settling our shipped or purchased eggs. We collected the eggs from your girls. Now you are ready to set the eggs. Of course, you set up the incubator at least a day ahead and you know the temperature near the top of the eggs is going to be...
Incubating Chicken Eggs: Step 1, Collect and Store
We are growing our second batch of "in-house" incubated eggs. As we have had rooster issues, aggressive Barred Rocks (tasty), to old Welsummer (tasty), and Leeroy (yes his name has two e's) who is young, scared, but currently mating. We decided to load the incubator...
Sourdough Bread (No-Knead Loaves)
I was pretty busy before I became a homesteader and tried to make sourdough from time to time. When my wife and I decided to take over our food situation, I committed myself to never eating the store bread again. So even though I now have less spare time (my boss is a...
Sourdough Starter, Step 1 of Sourdough Bread
Sourdough starter is a mystical thing. Most people think you have to go to your neighbor, friend or the internet to get a sourdough starter before you can make your own sourdough bread. This isn't true. As a matter of fact, if you went to a sourdough company and...
Spring at Spring Creek Acres
It's been at least a week since our last snowfall, so of course our thoughts and actions turn to spring. Shawn built an incubator and we hatched our first eggs. There was a bit of a learning curve as we played with temperature and humidity settings and figured out how...
Cooking a Whole Chicken
When we first started raising our own chickens, I was a bit perplexed about what to do with a whole chicken. I was used to going to the grocery store and picking up a package of boneless, skinless breasts or thighs. Now, hubby expects me to turn a 5 pound frozen...