Day two of this adventure is in the books, and we did so much more than yesterday! For starters, we had to get up at 6:30 AM s we could make breakfast and do our chores. We made scones from scratch and while they cooked, we unloaded a ton of bails of Alfalfa for the goats and rabbits. We used giant “hay hooks” to pull it off the truck bed. The we went hunting for eggs in the chicken pen. We found 38! Then we went back to eat the scones and make some eggs. After breakfast we cleaned up the kitchen and headed out to the greenhouse, where we watered the numerous plants. We were given some prickly pear but it proved to be too sour for my taste! After watering we went to the giant school garden to pick some herbs for the community of nuns that live on campus. We also delivered some of the eggs that we had found earlier in the morning. In return, the sisters let us use the kitchen’s knife sharpener, which we would use for the main activity of the day; slaughtering a rooster! We didn’t do the actual killing of the chicken; that was up to Mr. Slafter, but we did witness it. We first said a prayer of thanks for gifting us with food. After that, Mr. Slafter put the chicken in a cone so that when killed, it would not run around like, well, a chicken with its head cut off. Then with one quick stroke, it was killed. We de-feathered it and cut all of the good meat away, to be saved for tomorrow. We then went into depth on how chicken is made and sold commercially. It was very eye opening to see how terrible and in-animalistic like they were treated. They spend their entire lives in a warehouse and then they’re killed and produced. It was good to see a small portion of American chicken farmers actually outside letting the chickens live their lives before being slaughtered. We then made pizza from scratch using homemade pesto sauce, sourdough, and mozzarella cheese. After dinner we milked the goats and let most of them roam free for a while. Afterwards we gave the goats some oak branches, the chickens some leftover mozzarella, and the chickens some more alfalfa. We took showers and I started blogging. Tomorrow we’re going to a farmers market and I can’t wait!
Mitchell
9th grade
Mitchell
9th grade