Grazing Pigs Video

We upgraded to faster internet service so now I can post movie clips. This film was taken a week or two ago after we moved our smallest pigs to pasture.

June 14-20th

The wheat is starting to head out.

I cultivated the field corn for the second time on Friday, rain and warm temperatures have make good corn growing weather.

Saturday was the third farmers market, sales were good for this early in the season.

Some of our smaller pigs enjoying their new pasture.

June 7-13

We've gotten quite a bit of rain over the last week. Rainy days are good for getting caught up in the greenhouse.

Tommy and my dad getting the the hydroponics system set up.

There's a robins nest in the greenhouse, the babies have just hatched.

The First Week of June

Saturday June 5th was the first farmers market of the season.

We sold quite a bit of pork.

Overall market sales were better than expected.

The oyster mushrooms are ready to be moved outside. It looks like the inoculation worked and we should get a good crop of mushrooms.

Adam driving the Allis Chalmers B.

We're doing a little bit of logging, we need some lumber for buildings.

The green beans have germinated, rain and warm weather have really helped.

The Last Week of May

Oats and field peas, the idea is to combine them both at the same time so they'll already be mixed for feed.

The field corn has germinated, warm days and plenty of soil moisture make good corn growing weather.

The wheat is also growing really well. We got an inch of rain earlier this week and that helped things along.

Rain and warm weather have given our pastures a boost.

Some of our larger pigs enjoying pasture.

May 17-23

Getting ready to check the bees, smoke helps to calm them down.

Planting field corn, this corn will be be pig food.

We had a visitor earlier this week, a yearling black bear wandered through. He didn't do an damage and went back into the woods.

May 10-16

Our batch of 30 meat birds arrived this week. They'll be cute for a few more days.

On Friday I planted sweet potato slips in the green house. Last year they did pretty well despite the fact we had crummy transplants.

I've been setting the onions outside during the day, hopefully they'll be ready to transplant this week.

I'm working on building another pig feeder. I can build them for a lot cheaper than what they cost to buy.