Well, here she is. The first sow of our Large Black breeding program. Ain’t she pirdy? She and her “little posse” of piglets arrived safe and sound late yesterday afternoon and are settling in nicely. They are LOVING the green pasture, doing hot laps around the edges. I think they are inspecting ...
We are now taking pork deposits for 2013! This year we have secured a heritage breed pig that should produce some of the best organic pork in Colorado! For more information about our pork Click Here.
Well, here we are, January 2013! Where did the time go? I had all good intentions of posting this the first week of January, but the days just got away from me. With all this recent mild/warm weather, I had to take advantage of it and get something in the ground. So that is what I have ...
Nothing says Christmas dinner like a freshly smoked ham! I have been brining this 18 pound beauty for 2 weeks and it is going great. We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!
To celebrate the fact that our pigs go to the butcher on Monday and next week we will literally be, ”Living high on the hog”, I thought I would post a story about the ingredients of the McDonald’s McRib. Every time I read anything about McDonald’s it makes me hang my head in shame for being a Mc!
This video is shocking! You hear stories and occasionally see photos of how animals are treated in large confinement feeding operations but when you see video, it truly breaks your heart. I must warn you, this video is VERY graphic. That said, I would encourage you to watch it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBR4FlrWVk4&feature=player_embedded&has_verified=1&has_verified=1[/youtube] Joel Salatin said it best: “Honoring ...
Just when we start to feel like we have this farming thing under control we got a vivid reminder that we still have a long way to go. When we got home from the farmers market yesterday, Kellie went out to check the animals and found one of our pigs had gotten tangled up in ...
Our new piglets are here!!! They have actually been her for 2 weeks but we have been so busy bringing the farm online that we have neglected to announce their arrival. Molly and Sean are still trying to think of some fitting names. We’ll let ...
We finished brining our bacon and smoked it for 3 hours. When it we finished we had a bacon feast and made BLA’s (That’s Bacon Lettuce and Avocado). We are all out of tomatoes from the garden and Kellie can’t bring herself to buying the emaciated ones in the store. The Dry rub was a bit saltier then we like but ...
Or make that the freezer. Our little piggy weighed in at 350lbs live and his hanging weight was 292lbs! Just for the record, Rosie’s hanging weight was 252lbs and BlackJack was 283lbs. So as you can imagine we have been busy prepping our pork. We really wanted to try curing our own cuts as we had heard the butcher ...