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Time to get to work. Excited to have powwow back i

Time to get to work. Excited to have powwow back in Sierra Vista. A lot of our zucchini and squash will go to the animals. Everything else will get processed in the next day. #Watermelon #Lemon #Tomatoes #Apples #Produce

Having the new thermal printer is a game changer f

Having the new thermal printer is a game changer for labeling all of our canning jars! And the labels are dissolvable for easy cleaning. No more handwriting labels here! #dymolabels #dymolabelwriter #dynolabelwriter450

Queen Topanga likes to stand up to greet me each m

Queen Topanga likes to stand up to greet me each morning to let me know she’s ready to eat. #pigs #tamworth #funnypig

Started peeling and drying some of the loofah toni

Started peeling and drying some of the loofah tonight for this year’s sponges. More to go, but not a bad start. And we started to save seeds for next year. #Loofah #NatureScrubbers #seedSaving

While we didn’t get as big of a loofah harvest a

While we didn’t get as big of a loofah harvest as we wanted this year, these had to come in before the weather got too cold. The brown loofah is a completely dry loofah that dried on the vine. Everything else will have to be oven dried or sun-dried. There should be enough lace scrubbers for our kitchen this year :-) #Loofah #Fall #ColdSnap #NaturesScrubbers

One of our favorite ways to use up all the tomato

One of our favorite ways to use up all the tomato skins from processing tomatoes into sauce, ketchup, and bbq sauce is to make tomato powder. We simply dehydrate all the skins until they’re crispy and dry and then grind them into a fine powder in the vitamix. #Tomatoes #TomatoSauce #TomatoPowder #Vitamix #UseItAll

In our continual quest for real food… I present

In our continual quest for real food… I present to you hickory smoked turkey breast sandwich meat. #Turkey #Lunchmeat #Hickory #Smoked #SmokedMeat

Turkey breast going into the smoker for lunch meat

Turkey breast going into the smoker for lunch meat! #TurkeyBreast #Lunchmeat #GrowYourOwn

Did you know that squashes and pumpkins are natura

Did you know that squashes and pumpkins are natural dewormer for pigs? “Pumpkin seeds contain an amino acid called Cucurbitacin. It paralyzes the worms, and they detach from the intestines and pass through the waste. Cucurbitacin eliminates all kinds of parasites.” Grateful for our friends at @meekerfarms growing an amazing pumpkin crop this year. Source: hiddenheightfarms.com #Pumpkin #Fall #Dewormer #Pigs #RaisingPigsNaturally

Such an easier process for grinding our own #flour

Such an easier process for grinding our own #flour! No more #vitamix #grinding ! #nutrimill #freshlygroundflour

Testing out a jujube tea with ginger and cinnamon

Testing out a jujube tea with ginger and cinnamon this morning. Fingers crossed it tastes good. We’ve got lots of dried jujubes that we want to turn into tea packets. #Jujube #Tea #Ginger #Cinnamon #jujubetea

When we talk about “standing heat” in swine re

When we talk about “standing heat” in swine reproduction. It is a quite literal term. It is the sows/gilts ability to stand up to a boars weight for breeding. This morning while I was rushing to chase coyote off that was near the chickens, I left the pigs I was feeding unattended. Of course, Maxine took the opportunity to walk right out of her open gate. Did she run off? No. Did she tear anything up? Again. No. Did she go to the boar pen and stare him longingly. Yes. The selfy picture is of me sitting on her back where she is holding my weight. Although I don’t weigh as much (Thank God!) as our boar, Wesley, it was a good sign she is in standing heat. This will help me track her cycle for breeding next month. Which is important because she along with our new Tamworth (Queen Topanga) will be bred using AI; a first for us. 🤞🐷🐖🥵 #piglets #pigs #tamworth #showpigs #f3showpigs #ai #artificialinsemination #farm

Jam order going out today! #buymorejam #jam

Jam order going out today! #buymorejam #jam

While we’re clearing out the garden beds for fal

While we’re clearing out the garden beds for fall, it was so much fun to see my magician’s roses completed the arch this year! I know I’ll have to thin a lot of it this winter. But then I know how beautiful it’s going to look next year. A lot of work left to do get this space to where I want it, but I’m excited to get it there. #heirloomroses #roses #magiciansrose #rose

I wanted to buy a whole new plucker, but a friend

I wanted to buy a whole new plucker, but a friend talked me into just replacing the fingers and doing some maintenance. So in preparation for tomorrow’s butchering, all the fingers in the plucker have been replaced and it has been cleaned. A lot more work than I thought it was going to be, however well worth it. #ChickenButcher #Butcher #Plucker #Yardbird

With the year quickly winding up, it was time to c

With the year quickly winding up, it was time to clean the whiteboard calendar and get set for next year. We are usually planning out 4 to 6 months in advance. So it’s time to get to work! #Calendar #Schedule #SoMuch #Organization

The whole house is coughing and sneezing as a bott

The whole house is coughing and sneezing as a bottle of these two bottles of habanero prickly pear hot sauce! It has a subtle heat at the beginning that hits you at the end. And boy does it hit you at the end! #HotSauce #Ferment #FermentedHotSauce #Habanero #PricklyPear

Well, I’m sure we’ll post more photos later bu

These guys will be ready to go to new homes in a c

These guys will be ready to go to new homes in a couple weeks and those that don’t sell will be opened up for shares. #Pork #porkshares #tamworth #pigs

Harvest nearly 40lbs of jujubes today! The ones th

Harvest nearly 40lbs of jujubes today! The ones that aren’t being eaten fresh will be turned into juju butter and dehydrated for tea. #Jujube #harvest

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