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Aug 25
1 min

Sooo many pigs!

Greetings from the farm! We've had quite a summer here at the Porch Swing. After Aaron, my co-farmer and darling husband, took a tumble t...

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Holly

Jun 17
2 min

Spring is springing!

Greetings! We are full on farming, friends! I RESEEDED the pasture this week! Crazy! The pigs are plowing things up and we're replacing w...

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Holly

May 20
2 min

Piggles and Wyandottes

Greetings from our soggy farm. "Rainy" has become the default. When we speak of the weather, we only note sunny days. Looks like it'll j...

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Sooo much time on the farm...so more chicks...

Holly

Apr 23
1 min

Sooo much time on the farm...so more chicks...

Greetings fellow Covid avoiders! We're hunkered down here on the farm, spending this quality time building new chicken cottages (pics com...

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Holly

Mar 13
3 min

A Beautiful Easter

We are proud of the egg colors that we're getting here at Porch Swing. But - Easter is a comin'. When I was a kid, we'd buy special groce...

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Holly

Feb 18
1 min

Newbies

As some of you may have seen on Instagram, we have new chicks! Our current hen population came to us from a couple of different hatcheri...

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Holly

Feb 7
2 min

Our Favorite

As you may have assumed, we eat lots of eggs here at the farm. Mostly the ones with a little crack or the little ones. So we have figure...

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Holly

Feb 5
1 min

The Pig Trail

Hello folks. If you know Aaron, you know he is passionate about food and the Razorbacks, both of which seem like great blog material. He...

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Holly

Jan 26
1 min

New Kids on the Block

We decided, several months ago, to add some different colored egg layers to the flock. Different breeds lay different colored eggs. Mos...

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Holly

Nov 6, 2019
1 min

French Marans meet French Macarons

We kid around that the chickens are bougie - the chicken hipsters of the neighborhood. They do enjoy brunch quite a bit and love nothing...

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Holly

Jul 12, 2019
1 min

Guinea Buyer's Remorse

I have read the articles but I did it anyway. I bought some guineas. So some of you know what I'm getting at here and some of you are w...

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Holly

Jun 21, 2019
1 min

From Littles to Bigs

16 weeks ago we picked up 18 tiny chicks (cheepcheeps in the farm vernacular). We'd ordered 15 little girls but the hatchery included 3 ...

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