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2010
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longest acres 2010-12-11 14:30:00
i like my farm color-matching. yesterday it was blue. today grey. it looks as though its about to snow again. maybe it will? its odd. living and breathing the outdoors every minute of my life as it is now on this farm, i find that i rarely ever check t…
...read moreMini Burgers
This is what glasshalfull does with our ground beef. They are adorable and delicious. Kudos to the executive chef, Adam Cobb, who comes by every market to pick his meat up personally.
...read morelongest acres 2010-12-10 13:48:00
thank you to all you friends, family, and strangers of oscar for your kind kind words. it makes me so happy for oscar to read all of them. yesterday i dug a grave for my little pig. i kept putting it off this week. the ground was too frozen. we needed …
...read morelongest acres 2010-12-07 19:37:00
today i am thankful for the brief but beautiful life of a little pig named oscar. oscar was born this past july to a 600 pound mama that stepped on him the day he was born. her weight shattered his right scapula rendering his right front leg immobile a…
...read morelongest acres 2010-12-04 21:41:00
i thought we moved to the south. to north carolina. where snow on december 4th is the stuff of legends. the stories of nostalgic yankees that forget their current coordinates. i thought i’d be wearing my denim cutoffs right through til next spring.i wa…
...read morelongest acres 2010-12-02 17:07:00
pardon my online absence dear readers. it seems to me the hardest task of a farmer is tending to her neglected, but loved, macbook.i had a wonderful thanksgiving week with my parents. but. my camera died an inglorious death in a mud puddle. nick’s came…
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Cane Creek Turkeys Enjoy Their 2 Minutes of Fame on UNC TV’s NC Now
Cane Creek Farm’s heritage breed Bourbon Red turkeys enjoyed a moment in the spotlight when NC Now stopped by the farm to film a segment on NC grown Thanksgiving turkeys. Eliza MacLean discusses some of the many reasons that people buy our turkeys, including their amazing taste and the wholesome and humane way they are raised.
...read morelongest acres 2010-11-22 00:36:00
a totally tiring week. it is finally sunday night. sunday night is my friday night these farm days. i have tomorrow and the next off. ostensibly. though…thanksgiving week is upon us and the farm will be alight with family and turkeys-to-be-sold. so t…
...read morelongest acres 2010-11-17 17:26:00
today is wednesday. i bought a full jug of milk and of oj on monday….monday afternoon. this is how quickly the two of us go through them. nick has started drinking a glass of whole milk at dinner with me. and then we usually have another at dessert. …
...read morelongest acres 2010-11-17 17:12:00
i have some muddy boots. i did a little boot shopping this week. the cowboy boots were 6 dollars at the goodwill. the blundstones were a treat. its getting awfully slippery muddy dirty in the pig and bird pens.we have a very strict ‘no shoes’ rule in t…
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