We dropped the news that we’re scaling back the farm a few months ago. And ever since, I’ve wondered how this moment – our last fresh pork day – would feel. Would it feel sad, knowing that we’re nearing the end of something that’s been so beautifully...
Farming can certainly be taxing on the body and mind, but no one can say that there aren’t incredible benefits to this profession. One of them, which I’d argue might be the greatest of all, is the peace of mind that comes from knowing that whatever happens, we...
It’s strange to take a sharp left turn when you’re feeling content bumping along on the road you’re on. But as you know, there are a lot of left turns happening outside on the farm these days. And what we haven’t talked about yet is that it’s happening here on the...
Before last week, we could say that we’d never been to a livestock auction. We don’t judge farmers who rely on auctions to supply meat to their customers. It’s just that even if we could ignore the potential animal welfare concerns, sourcing animals this way is a risk...
It’s the stuff of my worst nightmares. The thing that periodically wakes me up in the middle of the night, hyperalert, listening out the window: animals on the loose. It’s happened to us before. Years ago, a sow found her way out of the electric fence – I’m...
You know how some of our pigs are reserved for retail cuts at the Farm Store, and others are reserved for our Half Pig customers? Well, at the start of this week, we had just four more pigs reserved for cuts at the Farm Store. Two of those pigs went to the butcher...
