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As of today, we’re fully stocked on most of our beef and pork again! Hooray! I’ve been making 7 pounds of ground beef stretch like you wouldn’t believe for a couple of months 😉 You can see the updated list … Continue reading →

Oh, hello there… Whatcha doing with that there camera? Here, get my good side. Uh-oh, gotta go! My mom’s calling! 1 year ago: How to Cook : Chicken Pot Pie

Matt was busy picking up our newly-made cornstalk bales on Sunday, so he asked if I’d do pig chores. It was a beautiful fall day with the sound of combines humming in the fields around us. Naturally, the camera came … Continue reading →

Surprise! It’s always interesting when I download the pictures off my camera’s memory card to find pictures that I didn’t actually take. That was the case tonight. I thought I was downloading pictures of football games and volleyball matches and … Continue reading →

So all of you longtime blog readers… remember this firstborn of ours? (from this post) That scrawny, sunny little girl that liked to show her dog… (from this post) …and all manner of other livestock at the fair? (from this … Continue reading →

Tonight we loaded out chickens from our garage brooder to the pasture. Something we’ve done for years and years now, but with Madeline’s graduation imminent I guess I’m even more nostalgic than usual. I started thinking about how this chore … Continue reading →

We’ll be butchering half/whole hogs in the next 2 to 3 weeks. Let us know by Monday if you want one! Chops, bratwurst, ham, bacon, sausage… yum! Raised the old-fashioned way, and not fed any yucky stuff or treated with … Continue reading →