I strive to be a good help meet to Steve and good mother to my 18 children. We have been blessed with children both by birth and adoption. Our adopted children have all come with some challenges and as such our life is not easy but God never promised it would be. We hope to be sanctified daily. We are passionate about education that gives people of all ages a love of learning. We are also passionate about good food, food the way God intended it to be eaten and as such are working at establishing our sustainable farm to provide for ourselves and our community.
Awwww! The menu never looked so cute! ;P Are those the heritage pigs? Are y'all breeding them?
ReplyDeleteI like the different colors. Are y'all going to butcher them yourselves?
God bless,
Anna
So funny!
ReplyDeleteI love having farmer friends! They make my day ;)
Bacon on the hoof huh? I'm not sure I could do that. But I suppose if you go into it steeled with the foreknowledge that they are meals not pets you can develop the proper mindset. But I remember when, as a child, our Easter bunnies and chicks grew up and became supper we (kids) cried for a week!
ReplyDeleteLOL Knew it!
ReplyDeleteHi Anna- No these are not heritage pigs - one is a Duroc, one is a Hampshire and one is a York. We bought them from a farmer locally to raise for meat while we wait for ours to farrow. We will plan to butcher them sometime around mid December.
ReplyDeleteBecky - thanks. You have to have a sense of humor doing this..:-)
Doug - we always name the animals we plan to eat food names- that way the kids know right from the start that these cute little ones have a distinct purpose. However, even though they will eventually become food, they are loved and well cared for so they live a happy life. Our past pigs have been "Ham", "Pineapple", "Ben" and Jerry"... The cows we butchered were "Big Mac" and "T-Bone"...:-)