Yesterday was our first snow day of the school year. It was a great call as once the snow started it really came down. And then of course it was followed by torrential, windswept rains. Totally yucky by the end of the day.
I had finally picked up our smoked pork last Friday and we were [...]
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Snow day
Posted in Cooking, Farm, Food, Pigs, tagged ham, Large Black pigs, locavore, pork, soup, Tamworth pigs on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Butchers and a Local Thanksgiving harvest
Posted in Cooking, Farming, Gardens, Maine, Pigs, tagged butchers, lamb, locavore, meat, pork, Thanksgiving on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Wow, it’s Sunday and it’s still sunny and warm. I am reveling in being at home for the day and am recuperating from the back to back trips to butchers: Friday night a trip to the butcher in Albion to pick up the fresh pork cuts from our pigs, and a 200+ mile round-trip yesterday [...]
Snow and pork
Posted in Farming, Pigs, Seasons, Weather, tagged Large Black pigs, pork, winter on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Snowy morning yesterday. Day for loading up the piggles. Usually we have them getting acquainted with the trailer for two or three days before the big day, but John was having some trouble with the wiring… so it was dark before the trailer gate was closed, but we could hear them happily sucking up the [...]
Piggies In, Chickens Out
Posted in Farm, Farming, Food, Pigs, chickens, tagged Cornish X chickens, Large Black pigs, Tamworth pigs on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love it when we find balance on the farm. Our daily life is very routine-oriented and when anything changes that routine, it takes me almost a week to fine-tune how my chore times look. Maybe I am slow to adapt, I don’t know!
As our farm goes, we try not to have too many different [...]
