I was not always on board with processing my own animals. Not that I ever felt that somewhere other than home or someone else other than us would be better for the job. Not that at all. But I didn’t always have the heart. You see, growing up, my most favorite pets on the planet […]
Many animals have come and gone on this farm, but none leave behind their abundance quite like the pig. Hands down, pigs give us more diversity than any other animal. Sure, some of it takes work on our part. The belly, for example, needs some help to become bacon. But that is precisely the beauty […]
It’s pig butchering season here on the farm, and with it comes so much excitement, emotion, and inevitably, exhaustion. Those of you who have raised and butchered your own animal, you know that reverent feeling that comes over you during this time. When you hold in your hands a part of that animal, you don’t […]
