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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Last 48 Hours of Kickstarter… Upgrades and Adjustments
Ben & Hope’s latest cartoon info-graphic tracking our progress (zoom) The pastures are starting to green up and look wonderfully lush. The animals are loving it. Yesterday Hope and I planted about an acre of pumpkins as well as beets … Continue reading
iKickstarted Sugar Mountain Farm Commemorative T-shirt & Patch
We’ve made our goal, thank you to everyone! We made our second goal too! Several people have suggested a special commemorative T-shirt, patch or pin that would be available just to backers by adding a few more dollars to cover … Continue reading
Of Sausage and Law
There are a number of old sayings that sum up roughly to “you don’t want to see how sausage or laws are made.” Perhaps this is true if poor ingredients are used but it need not be that way. You … Continue reading
Admin Ceiling Form Ready
Admin Ceiling Forms Will and Ben have been working hard on finishing up the form work that will let us do our first concrete pour of the year. This is a combination reinforced concrete and ferro-cement method I developed doing … Continue reading
First Bonfire 2012
Hope Building Bonfire by Upper Pond We have bonfires, cookouts, in the winter sometimes but it is more a warm season activity. Hope built our first bonfire of the year and we had hot dogs from our first batch of … Continue reading
Finals Week of Kickstarting the Butcher Shop
We are now in our last week of our Kickstarting the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm. We made our initial goal of $25,000 for the butcher shop equipment thanks to all of you! We made our second goal of … Continue reading
Abattoir Towering – $30K T-shirt – Onward & Upward
Ben & Hope’s Cartoon Info-Graphic of Abattoir Tower Funded (zoom) Wow! Thank you everyone! Not only is the butcher shop funded but we now have enough to pour the concrete for the next section of that abattoir tower. This brings … Continue reading



