This past week, the farmers and some of the farm food got out and about. Vermont Fresh Network held their annual forum and tasting dinner at Shelburne Farms. We were there with Ariel’s Restaurant and Fat Toad Farm showing off what Lee Duberman can do with goat meat and cheese. We were serving Trinidadian Curried […]
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Out and About
August 10, 2011 – 2:14 pm
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Changes Afoot
April 14, 2011 – 12:49 pm
The snow pack has receded in a blink! Pasture is reappearing. Ice is floating in a thin layer in only the center of the pond. A (the?) killdeer pair circled the farm vocalizing early Sunday morning, perhaps debating if this was the right spot! They were loud as we headed over to milk. The whole […]
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Getting Closer as We Grow the Farm
April 6, 2011 – 8:03 pm
Some of our favorite farmers and mentors advise you can’t afford to take a struggling piglet away from a sow for intensive care. We know it is futile to try to care for a piglet if it was not able to get some of the sow’s first milk, the colostrum, with its special antibodies. Our […]
What They Leave Behind
February 18, 2011 – 5:54 pm
It has been a quiet week here at Green Mountain Girls Farm. Statistics from Royal Butcher help us understand why…not only are the 13 “piglets” no longer with us, but they had a bigger presence than we knew. Our “piglets” had grown even bigger than we predicted producing over a ton of pork! Chores are […]
Animal Love
February 15, 2010 – 12:54 pm
The week leading up to Valentine’s day was an eventful one. On Wednesday we orchestrated the great pig move: Doodle said goodbye to her piglets and took a ride in the trailer up to the barn, where she traded spaces with Tic and Toe. The juggling act of moving Tic and Toe into their holding […]
Doodle’s Piglets
December 29, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Yes, it may seem as if we are only pig farmers if you read this blog lately. We promise to share other farm stories, but it is true that with 3 sows farrowing in November and December, the pigs are quite prominent. Santa came early and Doodle delivered her piglets on Monday, Dec 21st, right […]
Piglet Update
December 9, 2009 – 8:17 pm
We have 11 happy piglets from 2 litters (Fife Nov 9 & Madison Nov 22). Most notable characteristics — their rapid growth and fast speed. They all are getting to be quite substantial. No more worries about them being too cold as they are growing well, have moved into the hoop house, and now sleep […]
Here’s to Risks
November 20, 2009 – 10:22 pm
This evening Laura and I had a somber and somewhat soggy toast with dinner. “Here’s to Risks”. We were honoring little Risk-the-Runt who didn’t beat the 50/50 odds the books gave him. We were also celebrating risk-taking. Not the kind of risk that invites danger. We don’t think we caused the little guy acute suffering […]
Risk, the Runt
November 15, 2009 – 9:28 pm
Risk seemed like an appropriate name for our littlest, runty piglet as we took him away from his six rambunctious siblings and Fife this morning. Risk is 1/3 the size of the others, if that, and now that Fife’s other 6 piglets are scampering about, wrestling and chewing on each other, the runt was getting […]
Fife and Her Piglets Bring Joy
November 14, 2009 – 1:03 pm
It is amazing how quickly the piglets grow. Don’t get me wrong, they are still very small, but it is amazing that in less than 5 days we can really see a difference. They seem less fragile now, which lets us farmers sleep a little easier on a 20 degree night and they are very […]