Pepper and Veruca say cuddle up kids, we can do this week! Hard to believe it’s already the end of March. #barncats

Sound on!!! We still have a way to go before it’s truly spring at our elevation, but we are all just SO sick of the mud that we extended the roach (Dec babies) hot wire further east yesterday giving them access to some new grasses and woods. Listen to the munch munching!!! The grass these Idaho Pasture Pigs eat is part of our secret sauce. When the pasture is too poor and through winter, they eat alfalfa. This means you get all the amazing benefits of grass fed meat when you eat our pork: more omegas, unsaturated fat, and vitamins D and E. Add to that the Kune Kune genes for a little bit of extra fat and *chef’s kiss! Next USDA butcher date is May 6th so be sure you are on the list if you would like cuts. Full menu available at www.londonacresfarm.com and happy to take preorders. #idahopasturepigs #eatlocal #pastureraisedpork #regenerativeagriculture

GREENS! It's so fun watching the egg yolks get darker and darker with all the new baby grass that's popping up. AND now that they have more netting they can get to even more. Nick was able to expand their area and they are thrilled. Plus we are thrilled because the netting is now electrified. Escaped chickens are not only a pain (it's always at the WORST time and they are the worst to corral) but it's dangerous for them as both Anatolians are chicken safe, depending on the day and their mood. Enjoy girls and let's boost that production!

Taste tester supreme! If only I had a nickel for every time I have to yell at a dog to stop licking the pig feed buckets. There is clearly something irresistible about that fermented goodness. Must be a good sign! You ever drop a piece of human food and the dogs won’t eat it? 😳

Went to hand out evening snack yesterday (thanks Blue Bus Cultured Foods!!) and found the roaches running amuck! It had been several hours since feeding (their pen gate wasn’t closed) so no telling what all they had gotten into elsewhere, but this was the sight when I opened the barn door. Hilariously they seemed to have worn themselves out, as by the time I got things cleaned up they were all passed out napping. They proclaimed innocence but the evidence was overwhelmingly against them! Naughty piglets.

Christmas in July! Okay, it’s not really July but sure feels like it with this weird warm snap. Got a great deal on several rolls of electro netting yesterday and am looking forward to getting the chickens on to some new grass. And allowing some of their current territory to rest! Stay tuned for getting it all set out.

Arbor Day extravaganza! We lucked out that our first shipment of trees from Contour Lines arrived just in time for Arbor Day. So we celebrated big time! Nick and I planted all weekend, through all the wild weather, and managed to get 600 in the ground. Still have another hundred on hand a the final batch will deliver soon. Just little twigs today, but the hope is that most of these will survive to provide fodder and shade as well as become additional organic matter in the future. Apple, Black Locust, Hazel Nut, Mulberry, Wild Plum, Pear, Tulip Poplar and Persimmon were all planted. #farmforthefuture #regenerativeagriculture

Arbor Day extravaganza! We lucked out that our first shipment of trees from @contourlinesagroforestry arrived just in time for Arbor Day. So we celebrated big time! Nick and I planted all weekend through all the wild weather and managed to get 600 in the ground. Still have another indeed on hand a the final batch will deliver soon. Just little twigs today, but the hope is that most of these will survive to provide fodder and shade as well as become additional organic matter in the future. Apple, Black Locust, Hazel Nut, Mulberry, Wild Plum, Pear, Tulip Poplar and Persimmon were all planted.

Tip toe! We continue to get dustings of snow, which came in handy last weekend as we were checking the game cameras. That morning both dogs had been very excited and focusing on our interior fence on the west side. Relentlessly. We decided to go check the game cameras hoping we could figure out what had the girls so riled up. At the top of our knoll we came across coyote tracks and were able to follow them from the far western side of the property, around the eastern face of the hill, down to the high tensile fence, then along the fence exiting on the east side of the pasture. Super cool to be able to retrace their steps! It did appear to just be one coyote and it clearly interested with the electrified fence as it did an about face scramble away from the fence to then head east. It did follow the fence but at a safe distance all the way until its exit. Keep on truckin’ Mr/Ms coyote! Side note, sadly the cameras did not catch anything of interest. It was great to see the girls’ spider senses in action and that awesome fence doing its job. Let’s truck on into this weekend!!!

Recently Lucy had escorted me to the end of the drive to grab the mail (usual) when she suddenly turned tail and ran back up the drive (unusual, she’s pretty peopley). As I walked back, I observed she had ran back to join LeeLoo in apparently a very important excavation expedition. I will be honest, Lucy digs. Like A LOT. But, in her defense she also catches quite a few voles/moles/vermin. Enough to justify all the holes? Probably not. More like the old 80-20 rule. I’m betting for every 80 holes she digs she gets 20 vermin. Okay, maybe even less. And Lucy’s digging is infuriating Nick as it’s his job to make sure people can come visit the farm and not break a leg. In typical longtime spouse fashion, when I approached the dogs and saw not only was LeeLeeo (“Nick’s dog”) the instigator but also the one with her head roughly two feet down in a hole, I had to whip out my phone and video it! Then send to him as evidence that his dog too, is terrible. In their defense, they had clearly excavated into a tunnel system. May your day be filled with as much joy as these two dogs digging!