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Origin of “Don’t Eat Like a Pig”

April 20, 2020 – 11:09 am

Perhaps with folks spending more time at home, eating even more meals together, the phrase, “Don’t Eat Like a Pig” has been repeated more often. There are many disparaging sayings that reference pigs, some I believe are unwarranted. And for years of raising pigs, I even thought this one was a bit overstated. Then came […]

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Always Busy…

November 14, 2018 – 1:19 pm

Or you could call it Mid-November chaos. First, breeding season for the pigs arrived. After a long summer vacation of grazing, fence edge clearing and lounging, the boys, Balto & Rin Tin Tin, were put back to work.  Fortunately, all the moving of pigs around the property happened before the snow came, though they don’t […]

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#RootedinVermont

October 18, 2018 – 9:15 am

It is fall and while I love root vegetables all year round, the colder temps make them both more appealing to cook, and of course they are seasonally appropriate as they will last.  Just a little appreciation here for the roots — by us and the pigs too.   The pigs do love their roots […]

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Stark Choices

September 17, 2018 – 4:16 pm

  I heard the news story noting concerns about the North Carolina pig farms a few days before Florence was scheduled to hit North Carolina.  Despite being well informed about water pollution from hog farms (my former housemate worked on Clean Water issues decades ago and shared loads of stories), my first thought was concerns […]

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Introducing the Piglets

March 29, 2018 – 2:05 pm

We are a bit behind on naming and introducing the first batch of piglets that were born at the farm on March 1st.  Fortunately, a young visiting writer & photographer prepared some profiles of each of Grizabella’s six piglets, her first litter. The naming scheme this year is Ski Areas, for this first litter the […]

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Who’s Living in our Barn?

January 18, 2018 – 2:27 pm

Our dry lumber resides in a corner edge of our South barn, resources for future projects. Plenty of open space is left for this winter’s mixed group of gilts (future sows) and “market” pigs.   But this particular sounder of swine or passel of hogs appears to have neighbors who have channeled some good-sized tunnels […]

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Clean Food

December 6, 2017 – 8:32 pm

We returned home from the BioNutrient Food Association’s Soil and Nutrition Conference spinning with ideas and very optimistic. As if to egg us on, Laura clicked on a NYT op ed by Jacques Leslie entitled Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Clean Planet. Quoting Dr. Rattan Lal, it read “Putting carbon back in the […]

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Paw Patrol winning Hearts

November 8, 2017 – 8:08 pm

Yes, famous dogs and cats is our naming scheme this year and Paw Patrol was suggested by our niece while at Auntie Camp this summer.  (Of course we thought she was saying “Papa Troll” and kept asking if there was a dog involved). Anyway,  the group of 10 piglets we bought from Hogwash Farm this […]

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Summer Grazing

July 28, 2016 – 11:40 am

There are few things more delightful as a livestock farmer than the sweet sounds (which are often very quiet) of animals enjoying new pasture.  Even though it happens every few days on our farm, it still warms my heart every time.   We captured in pictures and video of some of those moments from Sunday morning’s […]

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Hot and Fueled by Greens

June 1, 2016 – 8:51 pm

This week was hot, so hot that we’d find the sows starting their day in their mud baths.  I must say, there were moments I was a bit jealous and it was clear they were thinking, “Didn’t we just have snow in the past 2 weeks?”.                   […]

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