Dinner Doesn't Always Come Packaged

At least, it doesn't if you're resourceful!

Say hello to Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. (Snacktime and Brunch are in the pen above them) They are young rabbits.

Looking at them, and after showing them to my friend who shows rabbits, we've decided they are Standard Rex rabbits. They sure are cute, aren't they?

Sometimes your food IS cute. But food it remains.


These five rabbits will be processed most likely this weekend. They are from a lovely older lady in the next town over who has become a little overwhelmed with rabbits and wants to make sure they go to good use. I stopped by her place today and had a lovely chat and made a new friend, and she gave me these rabbits to process and feed my little family. They will not go to waste, that's for sure!

I know it can sometimes be hard for some people to wrap their minds around this way of life. Is that bad? Not currently, but I have this vague feeling that it will become a negative thing. More people need to expose themselves to the truth of where your food comes from. Once it breathed and moved and lived and had a face. It didn't show up wrapped in plastic and foam or in a box. It WAS alive once, it DID have to die to feed you.

Not everyone has the stomach to process their own meat. For those who did not grow up in that kind of life style, the process that goes into it can be difficult to acclimate to. Someday, perhaps not in my lifetime or the next, I have a premonition that these skills will be very important.

There are many meat animals that can be raised humanely with good quality of life in small areas. Rabbits, quail, chickens. Then you move upwards to things like goats, sheep, turkeys, and more.

You don't need a ton of land to raise your own food. You just need enough. Grow a little garden. Raise a little pen of quail (Coturnix are popular) or keep a pair of rabbits. Find someone to help you process, or use the Internet and research.

You CAN do it. And who knows. Someday you might HAVE to.

Check back after this weekend to see the processed rabbits.

To update on things around here. Yumi has still not been found. I'm not really optimistic at this point, but I did put up a few more signs. We've done some repair on the run in and dewormed the horses. Secret is starting to pick up, slowly, but surely. I can't wait to see her once Spring rolls back around.

To all of those who celebrate the holidays, have a good one!

And he sent forth the pasta strainer and verily said...don't overcook the macaroni please.