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Hey folks! Greetings from our happy yet slightly waterlogged farm! Lots of rain falling here in our bottom lands lately. We'll be super happy for some drying out and sunny days. The piggos are okay with a certain level of mud but even they are ready for some firmer ground. A couple more litters of little guys have arrived. We're really appreciative of our mom pigs for taking care of so many littles. One of our moms had more little ones that she could handle at first, so we

Greetings loves! Lots of spring happening this week! After the thaw, we're a little soggy but hopefully that will provide great homes for all our little seeds we planted this week. And the frogs have gone crazy! It's a chorus of peepers all over the farm. Such tiny little creatures making such a cacophony! All the piglet are doing great. They've become one very large litter. I'll come out to feed everybody and can't find a piglet anywhere. And then I check the last shelter -

Hello from the farm! Winter is not the most favorite time here on the farm, but we're pulling through. Lots of hay and new shelters and heat lamps and wool socks. Rachel says she's seeking sponsorship by Smartwool. Several days this week were in the 40's and 50's which felt pretty luxurious. Lots of new things - piglets on the way, 11 new chicks, new farrowing shelters and tractor. Feels like progress toward our farm goals - making things more sustainable and better for the a

Hello farm friends! We've been on a bit of a blog hiatus, but we're back in the new year! Lots of piglets on the way end of January, February and March. We're all handling the cold pretty well - lots of pigs snuggled down in hay mounds. This is Mick Jagger, our new boar who's growing up nicely, and one of his girl friends. Even in the hot, the pigs lay right next to each other. This weather now, though, definitely calls for some body heat. These orderly ladies are exiting the

Whew! It has been a month! Time flies on the farm! We have piglets and goslings and the darling kittens - such a full crew! So - some updates! Ma Rainey and Bertha both had litters of piglets. Ma had 11 and Bertha had 14!! Bertha lost one early on but the other 13 are pulling through. I'm bottle feeding 3 of the little ones so they can get caught up with their fatty brothers and sisters and the little guys graduated to a food dish today from the bottle. They are awfully cute

Hey all. Hope you're making it through this nice springy week. Aaron and I both teach so this time of year means that we are wrapping things up at school. We both only have one more teaching day and then off to the finals. It's been a strange semester and has us both thinking more about the nature and intent of education, especially higher education. We both think things are bound to change but we're not sure exactly how. Anyway - you are not here for college talk! You're her

Hello folks! Happy Wednesday! While I was feeding the pigs today, I was thinking that we don't show much of the behind the scenes work. I do love a pretty picture but maybe you're interested in the mechanics of this affair. Please meet my best farm friend - the Honda 4 wheeler. Loaded down with feed, I drive this angel from pasture to pasture. When we first started with the piglets, I'd carry over a single bucket of feed everyday. Now, I fill up every bucket we have and drive

Hey gang! Sorry for the radio silence for the past few days. Aaron's surgery went well and he's home with his pill buffet. 6-8 weeks of no bending or weight on the knee in question. It's going lots better than last time already. Fingers crossed! Our big boar, He-Man, went to a new home today where his services were in need. With our young fellow Zeppelin figuring our his farm job, we were a little boar heavy. This little one is He-Man's progeny. Her ears are supposed to be ti

Hey folks. Greetings from the little farm. I was feeding the soon-to-be mother pigs tonight and enjoying spending time with them when it occurred to me that maybe other people would like a little taste of the farm days. I often collect the highlights from my day - who moved to what pasture, what field we seeded, how many eggs, etc - in a notebook but I thought, for the foreseeable future, I'd include them in the blog. So let's see what happened today! So according to my metic

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 that redesigned his knee cap somewhat, we had TWO litters of piglets. Our registered Gloucestershire Old Spot gilt, Maybelline, had a litter of 8 bouncing babies. So exciting to have the first litter. Maybelline is the BEST mom. All tucked in! We'll be adding a couple of these girls to the herd here at the farm. Eleanor, our big girl, had 10