Out to Pasture We finally got our pigs out of their winter area today!  There's Big Mama with her adopted children out at the back of the west pasture.  This is how we keep our animals happy and content - loads of fresh plants and grass for them to root around them.  Pigs are basically four-legged non-stop rototillers, and if you go see the ground after just a couple of days, you'll know exactly what I mean! On the farm, we move our animals to fresh pasture every few days, depending on how big the area is [...]

Look who just got here! For those of you who have been following our saga of trying to get some baby pigs on the farm, Big Mama was unfortunately not pregnant.  It was our first time to try and raise our own babies, so we were disappointed but not surprised (I'm sure Bailey tried his best).  We'll give it another shot next year. Fortunately, we had a backup plan - pigs from Niegocki Farms, which arrived on Saturday!  Six beautiful babies, about eight weeks old.  We kept them separate from Big Mama for a few days, [...]

Snow... Snow...more snow...endless snow... Another five wet, fluffy, inches. Oh, to be a duck!  Ducks don't care about no stinking snow.