Fresh Sopa: Earthschooling

Mother Earth is our Macro-placenta, that who sustains us throughout our life upon her.  She both supports our Mother's placenta which nurtures us in our Mother's womb and then once we are born she nurtures us through the breast milk and then through the foods we eat.  It is significant that so many of the plants and animals upon Mother Earth are not only harmless (non-toxic) but also beneficial, even medicinal, for us.  It is a violation of natural law that human beings have reduced many of Mother Earth's Plants and Animals to lives of utter filth and poison.  The result of this violation is food that is no longer healthy, but becomes toxic.  

"Earthschooling" is a term we use for the process of nurturing children's natural intelligence, wisdom and love for Mother Earth.  This has many layers and directions; in this post we share the process of our daughter gutting a rooster that we make into chicken soup.  Our daughter not only understands that chicken comes from a real live animal that sacrifices its life so that we can eat, but also has no problem taking part in the process.  She includes her prayer and affirmation and gratitude for the animal in this process.

There are any number of fancy equipment that can be used to kill and process a rooster, however we keep it very simple.  All we require is a knife and a pot of boiling water...  The rooster bleeds out, then is put for about 30 seconds in a pot of boiling water, this makes it very easy to pluck the rooster (the slowest part for us).

This part must be done quickly before the bird cools down and the feathers become difficult to take out.

The gutting process is very educational as our daughter is able to identify the various organs within the bird and understand what order she finds them in.

Our daughter checks the organs to make sure the bird is healthy.  

Here she holds up the rooster who is ready to be cleaned up, cut up and made into soup.

Our daughter is very aware of the diet fed to factory farmed poultry. She has read articles in magazines, which she is often speaking about, which has detailed the diets that chickens are fed and the conditions they are kept in.  She knows that the chicken here in her hands has had a very different life, a life that is natural for a chicken.  

The soup is a wonderful, nurturing meal for us, and contains not only the rooster but many other vegetables that we have grown such as winter squash.  It is a warming meal for the winter months.  Fresh, home-raised chicken has a stronger more flavorful taste and aroma, there really is a big difference in the final result!