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Spring Hill Farms -
Wednesday January 18, 2012 - By David
I recently read an article in the Columbus Dispatch about the manure problem in Ohio. The article starts out " Under the best conditions, raising livestock is a dirty, smelly business." The truth is under the right conditions , raising...
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Spring Hill Farms -
Saturday February 26, 2011 - By David
Tamworth Gilt Pigs are easily to keep in with electric fence. But training them to respect it is critical. When we start new piglets out here on the farm. We always take them through a training process. Without
training them you will end up...
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Rainbow Ranch Farms -
Thursday January 27, 2011 - By Poly
Happy Brthday Fattie Pattie, One of our sows is 2 years old today, she is so beautiful. Today She celebrates her 2nd birthday, and this birthday is special, because it will be her first celebrated here with us.
It's going to be a big CELEBRATION!
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Spring Hill Farms -
Thursday October 14, 2010 - By David
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Everything but the squeal - Margie Wuebker Copyright October 2010 Country Living Magazine
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday July 12, 2010 - By Chris
This past Saturday we took part in the Coventry Regional Farmer's Market "Graze Fest" which involved tours of some of the farms involved in the market. Erica did a great job showing a nice group of eager folks around our farm and many...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday May 17, 2010 - By Chris
We brought some of our livestock to the annual Farm Day here in Scotland, CT this past weekend. The photos below are from the Norwich Bulletin.
Here's two week old Moe sleeping after a morning's full of attention.
The piglets were...
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Antaya Acres Heritage Farm -
Saturday March 06, 2010 - By Brett & Stephanie
Yesterday started out a lot like most days here on the farm: up at dawn to throw hay for the sheep and the pigs. Its a good opportunity to peruse your animals and make sure everyone is happy and healthy. Its the only birds eye view I get of...
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Merry Heart Farm -
Sunday February 14, 2010 - By Jennifer
Wow, it has been a year full of blessings and lessons. I thought I would have more time to write, Here's why I did not:
Our CSA has had three complete growing seasons and we are learning to provide more food to more folks. We have made several...
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Spring Hill Farms -
Wednesday January 27, 2010 - By David
Here I am in this dang bed and who's gonna feed them hogs? So goes the old Tom T Hall song...After surgery on Monday I'm glad I'm not wondering that! I would say "minor" surgery but the only time it's minor is when someone else has it! ...
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Antaya Acres Heritage Farm -
Sunday January 10, 2010 - By Brett & Stephanie
What a beautiful morning here in Michigan. Big fluffy flakes were floating down slowly and the glare off of the new fallen snow was almost blinding. I love days like this. Being from Northern Wisconsin originally, I cherish bright mid-winter...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday December 13, 2009 - By Chris
A couple of weeks back we had about what seemed to be non-stop rain for days on end. The farm had become a mud pit. Almost like Spring, but without the flowers, grass, and other plants popping up and sucking up the excess water. So...we had...
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Antaya Acres Heritage Farm -
Thursday November 19, 2009 - By Brett & Stephanie
With winter just around the corner, you would think things on the farm would be slowing down as the days continue to shorten. Not so here at Antaya Acres. Our last fall litter of piglets arrived the other day, and are doing grand: 11 beautiful...
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Hurricane Farm -
Wednesday October 14, 2009 - By Chris
The frost has hit and the squash is done. Sadness creeps into the picture as one looks around at the dying plants. The sqash was commanding the garden mere days ago, but its leaves are now turning a sickly dark color. The frost sneaks in...
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Hurricane Farm -
Wednesday September 16, 2009 - By Chris
A local Connecticut restaurant, Zest, has some wonderful dishes on the way prepared with local ingredients including ribs grass-fed, dry aged beef. If you are in Northeastern CT, stop by their 1750's farmhouse restaurant and try the taste and flavor...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday September 14, 2009 - By Chris
One of our customers recently tried some of our Heritage pork and offers this recipe: "Slap Ya Mama Heritage Pork Chops."
Please follow the link to their Food Blog and, perhaps, try it out yourself!
http://acoupleinthekitchen.blogspo...
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Twin Creeks Farms- Wesley Stephens and Bethany Stephens -
Monday August 24, 2009 - By Wesley and Bethany
We are finishing up this year's corn crop. We had a good growing season and our corn turned out very well. We cut most of it for silage and saved some to pick as ear corn. The heirloom variety we planted- Boone County White- produced some very tall stalks and...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday August 24, 2009 - By Chris
One of the projects that was on the slate this summer was to install gutters along the front edge of the barn. Mainly I wanted to keep some of the water out of the pig pen, but also I wanted to try to keep the rain splashing on the barn sills to a...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday July 27, 2009 - By Chris
Last week, or sometime thereabouts, we had to load three of our hogs onto the trailer in order to take them to be processed. As readers will recall, our first experience loading pigs, while perhaps comical, took WAY TOO LONG! This time we had it...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday June 29, 2009 - By Chris
There is so much to do that sometimes we don't take time to notice how large some of our animals are getting, especially as they transtition from little babies. Remember those hogs that we used to till up our gardens, orchard, and bramble patch? We...
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