A Beautiful Warm Spring


View of South Field from Far South End (zoom)

This is a view looking back towards the central home fields of our farm from the stone wall dividing the south field from the far south field. I’m collecting pictures from this vantage point this year. It will be interesting watching the progression over the seasons. Each week I gather another shot to show how the fields are doing.
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Ferret Out House


Remus Checking Out Luna’s New Digs

Ben has built a new space for the pair of ferrets who live with us. Now, in addition to their high house in the loft and warren of tunnels that pass through our walls they have two 65 gallon barrels outdoors plus the old ferret cage where Ben has planted a tree, grasses and dirt.
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Thank You For Kickstarting the Butcher Shop!


Ben and Hope’s Latest Cartoon Info-Graphic at End of Kickstarter (zoom)

Thank you from all of us to all of you for making our Kickstarter project a success and helping to fund our dream of having our own on-farm nano-scale USDA inspected butcher shop here at Sugar Mountain Farm!
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Walter in M.E.N.

I’ve been a long term reader of Mother Earth News magazine and have most of the issues back to #1. Well, now I’m a writer in M.E.N. too. They republished my What Good Is A Pig article that discussed the cuts of pork and beyond. There’s a FaceBook page where people are making comments. Feel free to go join in.

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Last Hours, Cartoon & One More Shirt Winner!


Final Funding Hours Cartoon by Ben & Hope with cameo by Lio (zoom)

We are in the final hours. Our Kickstarter project closes at 10:01 PM this evening. Thank you to everyone for this wonderful ride into the clouds with the Kickstarter leprechauns!

Be sure to make any adjustments to pledges or rewards selections now. If you’re pledging extra to add-on extra goodies, my upcoming book, the butchering or farm tour videos, the commemorative T-shirt, patch and stickers, small tusk and such I’ll be asking which you would like when it comes time to do the shipping survey. Details in Update #44 and Update #39.

If you would like to save big by buying in bulk now’s the time to upgrade to a whole pig which we can ship to you one quarter at a time to save your freezer space. Share your reward with a friend as several people are doing to further save space and get in on the bulk pork savings of half and whole pigs as described in Update #47.
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