Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

For the past couple of years, we've been talking about finally putting a garden in.  This year, we're already off to a late start, c...

We used our home-cured bacon in a recipe for the first time tonight, and it was amazing!  We used the bacon from batch #1, which turned out...

I'm not Italian, I don't consider myself a gourmet cook, and until a few weeks ago I wouldn't have been able to pronounce "...

Mmm... bacon!  What could be better?  How about home-cured, nitrite-free bacon from a pastured, heritage breed of hog?  The extra-large G...

Tonight we tried some Guinea hog pork chops for the first time.  I dredged them with seasoned flour, pan-fried them in home-rendered lard , ...

We got 10 new Buff Orpington chickens from Gregory Poultry today.  They are lovely 5-month old pullets, almost old enough to start laying. ...

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...