You are awesome! You’re making it happen! Now, let’s do this for Nova Scotia! Let’s do this for Digby! For Bear River! Can You imagine a Homesteading Farmer from Nova Scotia being on the cover of Taste of Home Magazine! Let’s Make This Happen!
Not just for Me! For the positive attention it’ll bring with it for our area! For Homesteading and Farming, especially Small Farms! Traditional Country Cooking, Baking, and Home Made Goodness!
There are so many reasons to celebrate Easter, friends, family, and being thankful for our Saviour and God’s Grace. So, what better way to start the celebration of the Day by saving grace and savouring the flavour of these incredible Sourdough Waffles! Served with our traditionally smoked bacon!
The great thing is these Sourdough Waffles are made with the same great recipe we make our Sourdough Pancakes with! Get the Recipe
So sweet and juicy, and ethically raised, and rotationally pastured. Look up the health benefits of Woodland Pastured Pork! Combine that with the goodness of naturally grown Garden German Fingerling Potatoes, and top it off with Sourdough Crumpets! Wow!
We still have some traditional smoked Hams for sale as well!
They’re ready now, just in time for Easter!
So Moving Pigs is Difficult! Right? Discover why I’m a little ashamed!
While I do some things well, other things seem to get by me! Even when it is sort of embarrassing, and I wonder if I should keep it quiet or share it with you to maybe help you avoid my mistakes and embarrassment!
See, I pretty much name all our animals and birds, and treat them all the best I can. Treating them all like pets, except for that one bad moment that some meet with at their end. That makes it harder on me, as
I prefer to be the one that brings about that one bad moment. I want to insure nothing suffers any longer than necessary and so I like to honour that being by being the one to do the “Deed” so to speak!
Because I treat them all well, make pets out of them, and name them, it makes the end harder on me on their last day! However, it helps working with them much easier every other day!
While many people find moving pigs a most difficult task, have a look at this video, then read on to see why I’m actually a little embarrassed …
So, .you see that was pretty easy! Right?
The real reason we moved them is, about three days ago I got a Surprse!
It’s also the reason I’m embarrassed!
Daisy and Duke, our Swallow Belly Mangalitsa Pigs, had piglets! On the ground, in their muddy pasture! Where they’ve been for the Winter. I was told they’re purebred Mangalitsa and I believe them to be so, and I was also told that Swallow Belly’s don’t have their first litters till they’re a year and a half old. These two are just under a Year, so I wasn’t expecting them to be breeding for another month or so! It takes pigs 3 Months, 3 Weeks, and 3 Days to farrow and have their piglets. Which means Daisy got bred when she was seven months. Seven months is about right for other breeds, but the Mangalitsa are slower maturing. So, I kind of felt a little ashamed of not knowing she was pregnant! I had no reason to check, believing, based on the information I had, that she couldn’t get pregnant till she was a year old. So! Surprise!
I really debated posting about this, as it makes me look rather stupid, but I’m still learning and did the best I could with information given. So, I write about this, hoping my doing so may help others avoid my mistakes. Even if I’m embarrassed!
