June 2012
She was tall and black, with legs that went on forever. In the summer her coat shimmered and her flanks faded to the richest chocolate brown I’d ever seen on a horse and have ever seen since. She was grade, had travelled halfway across the country before we’d met, and her history was unknown. The [...]
On a dust-covered bottom shelf, at a local farm market, almost a decade ago, I found a box of expired seed packets. “10 cents” was scrawled across the front of the box in permanent marker and inside was a haphazard mess of flower and vegetable seeds from two, three even four years prior. I must [...]
I find there are two ways in which things will normally go for new gardeners. Either you have tremendous beginners luck, or you don’t. In the latter, you suffer for all your mistakes right from the get-go and are forced, very early on, to become the best damned gardener you can be. In the former, [...]
Whenever a new undercover video of hog farming surfaces, usually at the hands of an animal rights organization, there is a good bit of the video included that centers on the castration of young pigs. It’s a convenient part of hog farming to show, since it involves cutting otherwise adorable baby animals and — because [...]
The Pig Dog is starting to show some instinct. It’s terribly exciting. I mean terribly, terribly exciting. The kind of exciting in which a split second can make your whole day. Last night he held a wayward laying hen to the fence like a boss. Like a BOSS. I cannot wait to see what he’s [...]
This girl brings bacon into the world. 
