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I am doing a class at the Country Living Expo at Stanwood High School on January 29th.  The class is on raising pasture pork and above is the presentation that I am giving.  The keys to the pasture pork conversation is what breed to use (heritage…

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We weaned our last set up piglets this week.  We had 2 litters in November and then we bought a litter of large blacks over Thanksgiving so we had 3 litters going there for a while.  We keep the piglets with the sows for about 6-8 weeks and then I move them into a separate pen (the pit in the milk house where you use to stand to milk the cows) for a few weeks until they get use to being weaned and big enough to eat a pound or so of food in short order.  After 2-4 weeks I then move them out…

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I have not been great about blogging since May. The weather this summer was terrible and kind of took the wind out of my sails about blogging when nothing would grow. It is now the start of a new year so I thought I would update everyone on what is planned for the upcoming year. Before doing that, however, a quick review of 2010:



- Miserable weather lead to almost no vegetables

- We erected 2 permanent hoophouses

- We now have 5 sows (2 large blacks and 3 mulefoots) and 11… Continue

Here is the chicken tractor that I built. It is 4ft by 8th and right now houses our 20 Buckeye chickens.