Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

As I noted in my previous post , the overweight hog we sent to the butcher recently produced---in addition to a freezer full of pork---more ...

Last month, I was contacted by a woman who was selling all her Guinea hogs.  She wanted to know if I would like to buy two adult breeding so...

Every year, around my birthday, Ken makes my favorite treat:  Eccles cakes, a pastry so irresistibly delicious, they were once illegal. ...

Today Ken built a ramp for loading and unloading livestock into our car. One of the advantages of raising small breeds of livestock:  When...

We've had three litters of American Guinea hog piglets born in the last two weeks, but I've been waiting (and waiting, and waiting!)...