Staff Blogs
lovin, and these summer nights.
Hello everybody :). *photo credit to the lovely Hannah Sherk, one of my new housemates!It's Tuesday night, and I'm in Greensboro, in my new house! For the next year, I'll be living here with some delightful ladyfriends: Hannah, Molly, Melissa, &am...
spending this blustery sunday morning with rudy & oscar
spending this blustery sunday morning with rudy & oscar
geez louise it’s late.
It's 3AM and I should waaaaaaay already be asleep.However, this night was incredible! My best friend/life-mate Haley (yes... we do indeed have the same name) is here visiting me for the week, which is a delight in & of itself, but tonight we went t...
last farmers market in carrboro then racing home to finish…
last farmers market in carrboro then racing home to finish packing.
piglet update squirt or “mr. pig” was the size that…
piglet update
squirt or “mr. pig” was the size that oscar is now when we arrived on the farm back in june. he is now over 65 pounds and is living amongst other pigs his age in the spring pen. it was difficult saying goodbye to him BUT having a “p...
Milking Goats
Every night we milk Rosie who lost her kids and now produces milk for our hurt piglets. Goats have a lot of personality, enjoy scratches on the head and hugs around the belly and seem to genuinely like people. In addition their meat is supposedly better nutritionally than beef and tastes great. In the photo [...]
good morning, thursday.
It is a beautiful Thursday morning, and so I thought I'd help myself get moving by writing a little bit about my plans in the garden today.Today I hope to....harvest all of the okra, peppers, and melons that need harvesting in the upper garden. (our ok...
Market Day
Today is also market day. On Wednesdays and Saturdays kate and I head to our local farmers market in carrboro about 40 minutes away. We have the coolest market vehicle, for sure.
…part II as we were coming off our we live in france high…
…part II
as we were coming off our we live in france high we were having a crisis of conscience about what to do next.
we both had our immediate futures planned out. and i mean immediate….just the next month future. nick was going to tanzania a...
Moving Pigs
Today we had to move some young pigs who escaped previous attempts to our spring/summer stock pen. These are couple month old pigs who will become market pigs later in the year. After weaning, these pigs live together in a big pen as they approach 250-275 pounds. At that point we start catching them a [...]