Thoughts

Bill Moyers, Pottery, and Pigs

Its been a little while since I’ve update the site and I apologize.  I’m still working 1 full time and 2 part time off-farm jobs, but I’m quitting both the part time jobs by the end of the year.  I should be able to devote much more time to the farm, my family and hobbies, and hopefully the website....

Photos

Here are some cool photos that Kitty and Michael, our current wwoofers, have taken while they’ve been staying with us:...

Chickens

We’re going to Frankfort on 7/1 to use their mobile processing facility to process our 125 freedom rangers which are getting, really, really big- I suspect we’ll have some 6 pound birds in there.  We’ll have them at the Danville and Springfield farmer’s markets this weekend in addition to all or our pork. Our current wwoofers, Kitty and Michael,...

Lambs and Baby pigs

Well here goes with my first attempt at downloading photos:  The baby pigs are 4 weeks old and the lambs were born this...

Late Spring Farm News

It has been a little while since I’ve posted anything on the blog, but we are updating the Farm’s Facebook page fairly frequently, so please check there for new photos/news. We have lots and lots and lots of pork in the freezers.  We had Marksbury Farm butcher 5 feeder hogs about a month ago- they averaged 330 pounds, so...

February News

I’ve been delinquent in updating the website over the winter so here goes, in no particular order. Our Tamworth sow farrowed a litter of 6 baby pigs 2 weeks ago ( luckily enough I had her in the barn already, although I suspect she would have done fine in the field), and all of the baby pigs are doing...