Monthly Archives: May 2012

A Baker’s Dozen

Posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 20:54 by Walter Jeffries
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A Baker’s Dozen is thirteen items. I’ve read that this originated in the 13th century when bakers were threatened with the loss of a hand if they short changed a customer. So they threw in an extra to be safe.

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Butcher Shop Progress 20120530

Posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 @ 05:45 by Walter Jeffries
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Admin Forms Wired, Intubated and Almost Ready We’re getting ready to do our next pour of concrete which will seal over the administration section of our on-farm butcher shop. This space will house the inspector’s office, bathroom, laundry, hall and … Continue reading →

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Pigs in a Storm – Emergency Creep

Posted on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 @ 14:10 by Walter Jeffries
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Four Sows and Piglets at Underhill I got a call from Holly who was on the road that she had heard on the radio that there were tornado, hail and flood warnings. We are up above potential flooding but there … Continue reading →

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Kickstarting at the Bank

Posted on Sunday, May 27th, 2012 @ 23:53 by Walter Jeffries
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Sugar Mountain Farm Display at Merchant’s Bank During our Kickstarter project for raising funds for the butcher shop construction we had setup displays around Vermont to let people know about what we were doing. This one is in the lobby … Continue reading →

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41 New Underhill Piglets

Posted on Saturday, May 26th, 2012 @ 23:45 by Walter Jeffries
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New Piglets and Sows in Underhill People ask how many pigs we have. I have taken to just saying 300†. The reason is the number waxes and wanes. In three days this week it jumped by 41 as four sows … Continue reading →

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Fisher Dog

Posted on Friday, May 25th, 2012 @ 14:11 by Walter Jeffries
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Sirus Reflecting on Fish When the dog’s aren’t guarding the livestock, herding the pigs or keeping the predators at bay they like to relax by fishing in the upper pond. The fish are in no danger despite the vigorous leaps … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day Hot Dogs 2012

Posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 @ 14:30 by Walter Jeffries
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Sugar Mountain Farm Hot Dogs – Simply Good Ingredients Hot Dogs are back in stores! We’ve made our second delivery to local stores and restaurants for the spring in time for Memorial day. We use all natural Vermont Maple Syrup … Continue reading →

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Watch Dog

Posted on Monday, May 21st, 2012 @ 17:51 by Walter Jeffries
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Kavi Jaws Wide Open Kavi is one of our livestock guardian and herding dogs. In other words, a watch dog. I’m not sure what he was doing with the watch but apparently the “Funny Times” newspaper wasn’t holding his interest, … Continue reading →

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Captcha Off and On Again

Posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 @ 12:12 by Walter Jeffries
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Weaners Growing Up Every once in a while someone complains about not being able to deal with the anti-spam measures on my blog. I apologize, but they are necessary. As an experiment I just turned of the Captcha for one … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Warm Spring

Posted on Friday, May 18th, 2012 @ 18:18 by Walter Jeffries
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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 … Continue reading →

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