514-The Perfect Hearty Fall Recipe Featuring Apples, Hard Cider and Pork

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Harvest Eating Spice Blends To Return

We’re excited to share the news that the Harvest Eating spice line is coming back! The supply chain issues have eased, and the ideal packaging is readily available in the quantities we need to make this happen.

Initially, we will have the following varieties available:

Grilled Chicken-
Steakhouse Blend
Carolina BBQ
Northern Italian

Montana Steak and a breakfast sausage blend will also come later this year. Our prices have increased substantially but we will do our best to make these as affordable as possible. We will announce a pre-order soon and expect to be shipping by the end of October.

WHAT IS ON THE MENU:

Hashbrown Casserole
Buffalo Sliders
Locally-raised beef is excellent!

FOOD INDUSTRY AND HARVEST NEWS:

Flu-Resistant Chickens

UK scientists have successfully used gene-editing technology to create chickens that have some resistance to avian flu, offering a potential solution to prevent future outbreaks.

A lethal version, H5N1, has been damaging poultry farms globally in recent years. Since February 2022, the avian flu has directly or indirectly killed over 58 million chickens and turkeys in the US, including recent outbreaks in Utah and South Dakota. As of July, 685 outbreaks have been reported globally.

The researchers used CRISPR technology to alter two amino acids in a chicken protein called ANP32A, which is critical for bird flu virus replication. They then edited chicken embryos to produce 10 chickens with the altered protein before exposing the chickens (and 10 nonedited chickens) to a virus strain—only one gene-edited chicken became infected, compared to all nonedited chickens. When subjected to a viral dose 1,000 times higher, half of the gene-edited chickens were infected but had lower virus levels in their airways.

Regulatory testing and approvals are necessary before gene-edited chickens can be considered for consumption, with an estimated timeline of about 20 years.

TODAY’S MAIN TOPIC:

One of my favorite recipes is Heirloom Berkshire Pork w Apples, Hard Cider & Sage it’s such a perfect fall or even early winter dish. I wanted to shout out again to you all. I do want to ask a favor, PLEASE find local pork to make this. Here are a few sources:

https://sevensons.net/store/product/pork-shoulder-boston-butt
https://whiteoakpastures.com/collections/pastured-pork/products/pastured-boston-butt-bone-in

These farms offer truly regeneratively raised pork, it’s not cheap, but you‘re getting the best-tasting pork that was raised in a manner that helps the land and where the pigs had a great life with only one bad day. Purchasing from either of these places also supports a farm family, their employees, and their local community.

It’s easy to make this dish and the page listed contains a video showing the exact method.

HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI:

I wanted to recommend a few podcasts I have started listening to; The Modern Homesteading Podcast and the Homesteaders of America Podcast, they can be found in just about all podcast destinations.

ECONOMIC NEWS:

Inflation continues to drag on the economy as wholesale prices rose 2.2 % in September, this is bad!

The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — climbed 2.2% from a year earlier. That was up from a 2% uptick in August.

On a month-to-month basis, producer prices rose 0.5% from August to September, down from 0.7% from July to August.

This sort of inflation brings more pain to families buying food each week which results in fewer purchases in other areas such as discretionary spending including entertainment, and dining out, and usual product purchases such as clothing, electronics, appliances, etc.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50749208/wholesale-inflation-rises-22-in-september-biggest-year-over-year-gain-since-april

PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION:

Excalibur Food Dehydrator- I have owned one since 2014 and it runs perfectly each time and does an amazing job drying all types of foods such as fruits, jerky, camping meals, etc.