I felt compelled to write this blog about our hog killing after I randomly saw a photograph of a pickup truck piled with people going down a dirt road somewhere overseas. When I see pictures like that I have exciting memories of my first time hanging on in the back of a truck, and the [...]
It’s 11:08 at night and I just got back from a run. I haven’t run in weeks and it felt glorious. The nights are dark out here when the moon is mostly hiding. Its dark creamy orange gave just enough light for my feet to make out the loose gravel. I feel safe running alone [...]
It’s 7am on Friday morning. Doug is reading NT Wright and I’m snuggled up in bed with Annabel (8 mo), a cup of black coffee and a hand-me-down laptop. Both boys, Finn (8 yrs) and Shepherd (6 yrs), sometime in the night dragged their beanbags by our bed and are sleeping soundly still. We have [...]
Farming without the assistance of synthetic pharmaceuticals might sound sexy, idealistic, or stupid. I suppose it depends on your perspective. The reality is: it's darn hard work. One night a week for the last three weeks Katie and I have put our work clothes back on after dinner, grabbed our head lamps and headed down [...]
So, I’m Molly. And I’m out doing something I NEVER do. Yeah... the last time I did this was... well, one time I think two years ago. You know what I’m doing?!? I’m at a coffee shop, drinking a latte (made with coconut milk), with my laptop. Yep. That’s it. I’d actually take a selfie [...]
This is not a treatise against homosexuality, But I can tell you that gay pigs do not make good breeding stock. Of the twenty pigs that we raised this past year on Hand Hewn Farm, we held four back to be bred for future pig progeny. In addition to these four gilts (girl pigs that [...]
Ever wondered where bacon comes from? Or what’s actually in your sausage? Adam and Jenny Roberts of Mt. Vernon wanted to know those same things, so they decided to shoulder the responsibility of finding out where their food comes from and participating in a true nose-to-tail butchering experience on the farm where that animal lived [...]
