Posts By: Alex Haney

There is Chicken Blood on my Pants (and No, I’m not a Witch).

It is quite humbling to catch a chicken, hold her, pet her, attempt to calm her, pass her off to Steve, and look her in the eye as the hatchet comes down. Then after plucking feathers, and knifing away the vitals, I carry it on ice to my freezer. I did that today.  I caught a bird that has lived at Ferncliff much longer than I have, and helped end her life.

 

This article is about killing chicken.  I thought you should know that here before you decide to keep reading or not.

 

There was a bright vivacious red color blood.  There were feathers–lots of them. There was a small child calling at his father, “please don’t kill it Dad.”  There was slimy smelly guts. There was skin. There were feathers we missed. There was yellow fat.  It smelled like a dead animal, it did a lot of twitching.  It bled on me. It’s smell lingers in my arm hairs hours later.

 

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Compost as Resurrection

June 9 was a special day for me and compost.  T’was the day I installed a compost bin at my church in Burlington, MA and it happened to be the day I learned what other churches are doing with compost.  I saw an exciting webinar with the Presbyterian Hunger Program (the keepers of this blog)… Read more »

Fading leaves

 

…leaves can’t store all the sugar they make forever, it has to get used up or stored elsewhere in the plant.  Jesus does not want us storing up everything with us.  We’re going to fade away, but the work we do, our energy conversion should be given to the master gardener as we store it in our roots…

 

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Food Pantry Donations. Justice, or Junk for Jesus?

Why don’t people eat all their food before it expires?  And why are the holiday boy scout food drives or the Souper Bowl of Caring, the only times people look through all the food that’s in their house?  Food Justice starts at home folks!  America, lets cut back on the waste and eat the food we buy!


Why are so many people hungry if there is so much food wasted?

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Local Apples: Food Justice in Gift Giving

I am a YAV in Boston, working with and learning about food justice and economic discipleship.  These topics have me examining how to live out our biblical calls to love our neighbor, care for the poor, the widows, the orphans, and do justice in terms of our food and economic decisions.  It gets pretty complex because our food system and economy are so complex in recent decades.

 

Why is it that people can buy apples in the supermarket from hundreds of miles away while apple farmers within fifty miles are struggling to pay their workers? 

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