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Should We Do This?

Should We Do This?

Want to know our worst nightmare as your organic livestock farmers? The pigs roaming around the neighborhood like a pack of wolves. Now that I’m thinking about it though, maybe wolves aren’t destructive enough for this analogy. Let’s replace the wolves with a family...

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You Were Here With Us!

You Were Here With Us!

I lived on a Native American reservation once. The tiny little town where I lived is called Fort Defiance and it's located near the border of Arizona and New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation. ​ I was only there for a few months, but it was a fascinating experience. It’s...

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I’m Totally Serious Here

I’m Totally Serious Here

I’m basically a squirrel at heart. I already have a few bags of fresh strawberries tucked away in the freezer - they make the perfect addition to smoothies, oatmeal, and pancakes!​And if I play my cards right, I’ll get over to my favorite blueberry farm this week and...

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A Nest For The Ages

A Nest For The Ages

One of our wild avian friends decided to build a nest behind an electrical box on the backside of the Farm Store. ​ When I peered in the other day and saw the perfect dome-shaped nest and imagined how long it must’ve taken her to collect each one of those sticks, I...

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Our Biggest Dream 🤔

Our Biggest Dream 🤔

There’s a parcel behind our farm that we have our eyes on. It’s vacant land that the current owner uses to hunt and play on. ​ For as long as we’ve lived here, we’ve imagined ourselves owning it. Not for vanity reasons - I know all too well now that having more acres...

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That 1% Is The Hardest

That 1% Is The Hardest

We have to castrate all the male pigs on the farm and if you're wondering why, it's because if the testicles stayed in place, you might come to find out that our meat tastes like actual urine. I’m not speaking in hyperbole - if you happened to be among the 75% of the...

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Surprise encounters

Surprise encounters

When your house is old - ours was built in 1846 - you expect to have some surprise encounters with the natural world from time to time. We were still shocked, though, when we renovated the bathroom years ago and discovered that we had unknowingly been cohabitating...

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