This past weekend we moved our remaining tamworth pigs to Derby Ridge orchard in Stow. We’ve been hoping to partner with a local orchard for years and we are so happy that Linda has invited us to use her orchard for a testing ground! Our hope is that the pigs will help clear the apple [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Orchard pigs!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bye bye pigs…see you soon!
Posted in pork on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week we brought in for harvest a wonderful group of pigs. We will miss them so! In one of the photos you can see a pile of apples. Every few days for the past several weeks we’ve collected apple drops from Derby Ridge Farm in Stow and brought them to the pigs. Each load [...]
Frosty capons and naked necks
Posted in meat chickens, Uncategorized on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The naked necks are here! For the first time in four years we have several dozen naked neck (aka Poulet Nu!) meat birds on the farm. These are funny looking birds which are so darn tasty! We first trialed them a few years back and we just loved them. But they are very hard to [...]
