Blog
Why were we ever so embarrassed to write about this?
Sometime last year, we shared that we aren't planning on having kids. People have told us that they were super surprised to learn this and we totally get it. It just isn't what two happily married, crazy in love, 33-year-olds usually say. But between you and me, this...
Wait, did I just get rabies?
We were in our barn last weekend tidying things up and all of a sudden a dark aerial thing starting swooping down around my head. I ducked and let out a little shriek or maybe it was a swear word or two? So me, being me.... I naturally came to the immediate...
That time Greg got to be a pig midwife.
When we were sorting out the plans for our farm, we decided very early on that we wanted to run whats called a "farrow to finish" operation. This means that the pigs we bring to market or sell as half pigs shares, are almost all born or "farrowed" right here on the...
The thing that never felt quite right.
If there was ever a thing that never quite felt right to us about living here in Henrietta, it was being so far away from Greg's family. It sounds silly when I hear myself say "so far away" since Albany is just 3-4 hours from here. But when you're a farmer, 4 hours...
We thought we were toast.
I remember our first day at the Brighton Market like it was yesterday. It was almost 3 years ago to the day and we had just purchased our farm a few months prior. We were thrilled to have been accepted as vendors at the market and we had high hopes that it would...
What happens when farmers go to a bar.
We go to a local bar and play trivia with friends every now and then. I like the craft beer and crispy fried cauliflower. And Greg is remarkably good at recalling random facts (especially if they're STEM related) and occasionally helps bring our team to victory. A few...
Oopsy Daisy.
Our farm is 56 acres and about 1/2 of it's pasture and 1/2 of it's forest. Through a series of funny experiences this month, we've realized that we've been so focused on recovering our pastures that we've sort of neglected the other half of the farm, the woods. Let me...
Where the heck is this train taking us?
In our newsletter last week, there were a few sentences in there that hit us hard. We were talking about how, as farmers, we can't just spend our time thinking about how to grow the best pastures and raise the most exceptional food. Because even though this stuff is...
Something awesome just fell into our lap
You probably don't know this about us...but we want to sell our land. Well, that's not entirely true. We want to sell part of our land. Sort of. Let us tell you more about this before you start thinking that we've lost our minds. We first learned about this...
We move mountains to make it to this class every week
You know what people tell us all the time? "Wow.....you guys work so hard!" There's a huge part of us that takes these words in as a compliment, of sorts. Turning a plot of overgrown fields full of brambles into an organic livestock farm without any employees has...
The thing Greg did 200 times last Tuesday
The first day of spring was this week and we are feeling it, BIG TIME. We had our first batch of baby chicks arrive this week and we've been spending lots of time tidying (Marie Kondo style) so that we're ready to take on the busy season ahead. One of our biggest...
That one time we bought a house that we actually didn’t like
I always thought the process of buying a house with Greg, the love of my life, would be so exciting. We'd think about all the qualities we wanted in a house and then we'd go house-hunting with our list of must-haves. We'd look at a few houses, find "the one" and put...
The WORST hobby for a farmer
The first farm that Greg ever worked on did a little of everything. They grew veggies, raised chickens, turkeys, pigs, and beef and they had a dairy cow too. After that, he spent years working on farms that grew only veggies. When we were figuring out which direction...
The Piglet Explosion
We spend a lot of time thinking about pig pregnancies.... We time the meeting of our sows and boar very carefully so the due dates don't fall on a holiday or during one of our rare vacations. We track heat schedules (which means the sow's ovulation cycles) for every...
Tales From the (Minorly) Injured Farmer
There are a lot of things to fear on a livestock farm. Will predators attack any of our animals? Will another crazy wind storm destroy one of our buildings? Could our animals ever get out and wander away into the woods? Something that we try not to think too...