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HUGE news about the Farm ➡️
HUGE news about the Farm ➡️ A poem that’s always spoken to me is this one by Rupi Kaur: Our souls Will not be soothed By what we achieve How we look Or all the hard work we do Even if we managed to Make all the money in the world We’d be left feeling empty for...
Life here on the farm
There are so many positive aspects to our life here on the farm. There's the view of the animals living their best life on pasture, the joy of being so in touch with nature and seeing beautiful things, like the first fireflies of the season lighting up the fields....
Encounters with the natural world
When your house is as old as ours, you expect to have some encounters with the natural world. We were still pretty surprised, though, when we renovated the bathroom several years ago and realized that we were unknowingly cohabitating with a family of chipmunks. ...
The Real Winner
They come about when we notice something that isn’t quite optimized, maybe in terms of time efficiency or wasted resources. And then we do something about it, usually in a way that’s unique, inexpensive, and often totally out of the box. In truth, we’ve built some...
My Dad’s Favorite Story About Us
One of my Dad’s favorite stories to tell, especially when we’re all sitting around the dinner table together, is about the moment he met Greg for the first time. It all happened during my senior year at Hamilton College when my Dad and older brother, Dana, came to...
We did it!
We’ve been itching to get into these woods for a couple of years now and guess what - last summer, we did it! We installed a culvert pipe so that we can cross the stream, and easily access the woods with the tractor and the pigs. It's been holding up like a champ,...
Couldn’t Have Gone Better
This Couldn't Have Gone Better. The spiders and their cobwebs moved in some time ago. And I can’t blame ‘em. My old muck boots are cozy, dry and insulated. And they’ve been sitting down there at the bottom of the basement steps, dormant, for a long time....
Fun adventure
If you haven’t experienced it for yourself, making deals with the Amish is a fun adventure. It certainly requires a little more patience on our end, and it frankly wouldn’t work if we were in any sort of rush or rigid timetable. Typically, we correspond by snail mail,...
Stormy had a massive litter
After getting a good look at her, Greg told me that Stormy looked like she had a massive litter in her belly. And boy, was he right. She just gave birth to 19 - yes, 19 - piglets which are about 10 more than average. And is, unfortunately, some number well above...
Spring
We look forward to this moment every spring…. When we get to move the big herd of pigs out of their winter paddock located near the top of the farm and onto the grazing pastures toward the back of the farm. It’s truly one of the most glorious sights to behold! But...
Have you heard about this?
We don’t do sales very often. And that’s not because we don’t want to! It’s just that we don’t usually have enough inventory for sales because we generally sell out so quickly! But, every rule has an exception… Every now and then, we have a little more going on in...
It Boils Down To Just 3 Things
I still get together annually with my two best friends that I first met when I was 4 years old. Last week, one of them visited us with his family for the afternoon, and after we ate lunch, we walked around the farm together. They loved seeing the pigs wandering...
Summertime pasture rotations
With spring arriving in full force last week, the fields are starting to dry up nicely, which means it’s officially time to get the animals relocated to the back fields to start their summertime pasture rotations. The laying hens are the first to make the big move,...
Our Unexpected Visitor
I heard a little commotion in the kitchen this week. I ignored it, figuring the sound wasn’t loud enough to be coming from an injured farmer, and anything else at that moment didn’t much concern me. A few hours later, though, I heard another round of thudding and...
Gardening
We were already spending what felt like every waking moment outside working with the animals and building up the infrastructure for the farm. So the idea of gardening and spending more time sweating through my clothes with my knees scraping through the dirt, felt like...