Cristo Rey Farm

Several customers have asked us why we keep the necks on our harvest pastured chicken. 

The simple answer is we keep the necks on our birds so that customers can receive the added benefit of the neck bones when using the carcass to make nutritious and delicious broth or chicken stock.

The old wives tale about chicken soup is true. One of the very best things you can add to your family’s diet is homemade broth:

"Stock contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily—not just calcium but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur and trace minerals. It contains the broken down material from cartilage and tendons--stuff like chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine, now sold as expensive supplements for arthritis and joint pain." Sally Fallon of Weston Price Foundation

It is so simple to make broth. An easy recipe is posted below.

All our CSA shares include at no extra cost the organs, feet and heads. The feet and heads make bone broth extra rich and the organs are extremely valuable added to ground meats and as liverwurst or fried with onions (how to use the organs will be another blog post!).

The broth can be used in soup, rice, gravy or any other recipe calling for stock.

I warm some up on the stove and serve it in cups like we would coffee or tea. The whole family asks for 2nds!

The value of Cristo Rey Farm chicken goes beyond the taste and texture, animal and environmental benefits. Find out more in our article “Taste and More Than Taste”.

KC and ED

Cristo Rey Farm

Easy Recipe for Bone Broth

1-2 chicken carcasses

1 onion- quartered

4 carrots halved

3 celery stalks- halved

2 cloves garlic

2 bay leaves

Fresh ground pepper ½ tsp

Sea salt 1 tsp

Fresh parsley or dried 1 tsp

Opt. chicken feet (2) and 1 chicken head

Add water enough to cover all ingredients

Place all ingredients in Crock Pot on low and cook for 12-24 hours.

Or

Put ingredients in large pot on stove and bring to boil, then lower temp to lowest stove setting. Cook 12-24 hours.

Remove from heat and cool.

Strain broth and pour into glass containers and store in the refrigerator.

To keep it really simple use whatever ingredients of the above that you have on hand. The most important ingredients are the chicken bones, water, salt and pepper.

For more information on how and why to make broth, check out The Healthy Home Economist.

Video: "Life on the farm 2015":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4g44N5noqA

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