Pinterest is a wealth of resources for recipes, craft ideas and home decorating projects. Also, evidently, pigs. Check out these porktastic pins I’ve found recently: A good friend of ours just had a baby – I think maybe she needs this plush little porker. How…
I’m over at Housewives of Rural America today, sharing some tips for life on the road. Click over there for thoughts on laundry, snacks and more.
There are many benefits to eating food that’s grown locally – minimizing the impact to the environment, supporting your local economy, etc. I love a morning spent downtown at the Farmer’s Market, especially when accompanied by brunch with a Bloody Mary at a nearby restaurant….
I generally focus on the business end of this family business, but today, I’m sharing a personal family moment. “When [Almanzo] began to eat pie, he wished he had eaten nothing else. He ate a piece of pumpkin pie and a piece of custard pie, and…
We spent several days in a barn earlier this spring trying to help a farmer optimize his feeders. His pigs were sick, and they were running the feeders poorly – namely, wasting feed and making a general mess of things. (Have you ever tried to…
Iowa State released an Animal Industry report earlier this year that focused on the microenviornment of transport trailers used for market hogs. It was previously a pretty unexplored area of research so it’s great to see new data on trailer bedding and washouts. The study…