What was I thinking about when it happened? Was I distracted? Was I over-tired? I’m still processing that fluke hip injury I had last summer. And believe it or not, almost a year later, I’m still healing, too. I wonder how that’s even possible when our cells possess...
It was a big week. For the first time in Stonecrop history, we said bon voyage to a litter of piglets, as they headed off toward their new home on another farm. With time, I’m sure the term “organic pig breeder” will roll off the tongue easily – sorta like...
While I was putting dinner together this week, Greg came over to the kitchen sink to wash up and said “’I spent the entire day outside doing physical work, and boy, am I feeling it!” Suffice it to say, he’s got spring in his step, but summer on his mind. And even...
Greg and I were in the barn castrating the last batch of males born during the piglet explosion (all the sows and new piglets are doing great by the way!), when I noticed something. There’s a time of year when the barn is so jam packed with bales of straw and hay that...
There’s a great book out there called Atomic Habits, by James Clear. Have you heard of it? I loved it. So much so, that it’s been over a year since I read it, and I still find myself thinking about it often. My big takeaway from the book was that the best way to move...
There are these auctions that happen in the farming world. They take place in a field somewhere, way off the beaten track, in early spring when all the farmers are itching to get back to working in their fields. Usually, Greg goes to the auctions solo and gives me a...
