Farms, small and large, are currently making plans for their 2021 endeavors. Here at Jonah’s Run Farm, we are beginning seedlings for produce as well as ordering our meat birds. We would like to do things differently this year. Instead of ordering an unknown quantity of chicks and then working to find families for them, …
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It’s that time of the year again!
Spring, for those of us with laying hens, means we get to enjoy lots of eggs again after the winter laying lull. We are getting 2 dozen each day! That really makes up for the 1 per day over the winter months. How does that affect our life? Well, it means we eat eggs for …
A Quiet Year With Our Hogs
It’s been a pleasant year raising these three Berkshire/ Old Spot cross hogs. They’ve been some of the most content pigs! You may recall in past years we’ve had to chase pigs around the pasture after they’d broken out of their paddock. Not so this year. These guys happily played in their paddock until it …
Healthy Mom on Overdrive
Want to know what happens when you try everything to grow organically? Well, you’re always searching for ways to get rid of the bad bugs which are trying to consume your garden produce before you. Last year, while waiting in a doctor’s office, I read about how catnip plants can keep squash bugs away. Of …
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!
We are blessed with an abundance of farm fresh eggs this spring. This is such good news to the kiddos who were tired of eating cereal and oatmeal all winter. Yea, Chickens! Way to start laying again! When did this glorious event occur? Exactly when it got beautiful outside, and the bugs appeared. Chickens love …
A Beautiful Move & A Sad Mom
Well friends, with sadness in my heart I have to report that I witnessed a beautiful scene today, but I can’t share it with you. My gloved hands failed to press the record button on the video camera. I didn’t realize this until I was ready to pause and transition to film the final loading …
Preparing for the big day
Tomorrow is the big day…the day this year’s piggies go to the market…a day mixed with many emotions, yet mostly relief that a year’s worth of labor is at its rightful conclusion. Alexander is preparing an alley down the side of our pasture to guide the pigs to the trailer. In years past, our butcher …
Wooly Wattles liked in Netherlands
Alexander had some dialog with Mangalitza breeders in the Netherlands today. Pretty exciting that they liked our humble pigs! It is fun to find others out there who share your passion for cross breeding heritage pigs. Alexander and Tom moved the pigs to a new paddock this morning. Tom came in chuckling at how they …
Comment box malfunction
Friends, for some unknown reason, all of the comment boxes on our website malfunctioned last week. We have reset them all so that they appear to be working properly now. If you have tried to contact us or place an order, we apologize for the inconvenience, but we will need you to submit that again …
The Big Weekend
Despite the attempt at intimidation by the above rooster, yes, we did brave the weather yesterday (30 degree temps) and process our last batch of broilers. What a healthy batch they were, too. Not a single loss in this batch. They didn’t dress out quite as pretty as a white chicken, but quite frankly a healthy, …
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