The Hog Farmer's Wife

Hello friends! It has been an eventful few days, with our first hog going to market sooner than expected, and the rest of them going yesterday.  Last Sunday, a week before the scheduled "to market" date for the hogs, it became quickly apparent that Spot, one of our two male hogs, had injured his leg. First he was limping, and then he wasn't moving much, and then not at all; temperatures were lower last week but still sunny, and we had real worries about him getting to water and food. We were so close to "surviving" our first season of raising hogs without any major events (save two escapes) and now this. I was stressed out and spent many a sleepless night praying Psalm 127 to walk myself down from the ledge.  Dave got in touch with a mobile processor who agreed to come out to our farm later in the week. In the meantime we would take Spot a chafing pan full of water and a plastic sled that we would put his feed into. (He did try to sit in the chafing pan, which w...

  You've made it this far! You probably didn't hear about this blog from the internet, which means you've found us through our website, www.sabbath.farm. I'll be using this space to give farm updates, musings, and other things I think you might want to know about. For my first "share", I'd like to point you to this great read  on the history of food by Ruth Reichl, who has been writing about food in America for the last 50 years! The realities of food that she writes about, specifically that food has become more industrialized, tasteless, and unhealthy for us and the planet, are realities that have made us want to start a farm that will be different than the status quo.