05/08/2026
Happy Friday everyone!!!!
Tomorrow is market day and we are thrilled to be bringing our first whole chickens of the season with us. These are whole, frozen chickens weighing between 5.5 and 7 lbs each!! Yes, we know they are big, but by golly if you are going to cook a chicken, you might as well cook a CHICKEN and then have several meals worth of tasty, tender meat. I cut up one yesterday and put a single (half) breast on my kitchen scale. It was 19 oz. That means that one "half" chicken breast could feed 2 people, or 1 person with leftovers.
Anyway, we'll have some birds with us tomorrow. As we have limited space at the markets, if you know you want one, you might holler, so we can put your name on it today and hold it for you. If we end up "sold out" tomorrow, fear not, we will bring more next week. We have about 50 total available on this round. Round #2 will be hitting the freezers in mid/late June.
On another note, but still chicken related, if anyone has empty egg cartons hanging around that they would like to get rid of, please consider dropping them by our booth at the Corvallis Farmers' Market or the Salem Saturday Market, we are always happy to take in egg cartons. We don't sell eggs at the markets, but we do donate a bunch and also sell a few from the farm. My stack of empty cartons is getting pretty short.
Also, we are happy to give a home to your reusable plastic grocery bags if you have any of those hanging about. Oh heck, we'll take the paper ones too, but I love those plastic ones for using in the freezers as they are much less prone to breaking with heavy and sharp edged frozen meat packages.
See ya all tomorrow!!