Working hard is neither their purpose nor their strong suit. They’re often sleeping, eating, or roughhousing amongst themselves in the mud. Between long naps in the shade and endless veggie showers turned buffets, our fat, happy pigs are doing their best to transform any excess harvest into delicious meat. Every day, the group of ten pigs consume as many vegetables...
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Every morning, I am greeted by a bouquet of smells when I arrive at the farm. The muddy stench of the pigs mixes with the sweet scent of basil being harvested; the flowers in the fields linger all the way into the break room by lunchtime. But my favorite of all, and the smell that – to me, at least – most signifies the arrival of August, is the warm scent of a...
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It’s becoming very colorful around the farm recently. The heat and long days, coupled with our good soil, hard work and attentive irrigation means that our crops our exploding with growth, nutrition and most fun of all, color! Sometimes the shear beauty of the produce is enough to make me swoon. Amazing that after so many years, I still feel in love with the...
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Everyone’s day at the farm begins differently. Some of the crew heads out into the fields, destined for the long irrigation pipes that we rotate each morning to water our crops. Some of us jump into the farm trucks and sip piping hot coffee as the old engines begrudgingly awaken and splutter out to the fields. And I, weaving through the bustle of people and...
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Just as summer is heating up, the crew here at the farm is too. As with anything, there are high and low tides, or what’s more commonly referred to as ups and downs. What everyone needs is a high tide; the best time to go get “it”—whatever “it” is. Fortunately for us the metaphorical water level is rising and, most importantly, our heads are still above the water...
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We spend a lot of time in the field talking about our favorite things. It’s a good conversation starter when new crew members are out in the field for the first time. “What’s your favorite vegetable?” is a question that always comes up, drawing some ew’s, oooh’s and awes inevitably. I’ve heard a lot of opinions the last three years on why certain vegetables are...
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