Filed under: January 2017 | Tags: Book signings, maple syrup season, play time, Raising pigs, recess, RFD TV, Rural Heritage, Rural Heritage magazine, Small Farming
January 31, 2017
My piggies were playing outside. As I snapped this picture, one of them fell on his side and slid about ten feet. They love playing in the snow. This part of their daily recess. They get to play twice a day. They drink all they want, then bark, run and play. They race and chase like children playing tag. It is a “hoot” to watch. Things like this brighten my day, make me laugh and drive stress out of my body.
It has been a crazy, busy month. We have been going almost non-stop getting work done and things ready for the upcoming maple season. My off farm job has been demanding extra time too. We have repaired an electrical problem, added a needed light and outlet on a necessary project. I have been training the new filly, getting her ready to hitch with the boys. Her maiden voyage will occur this week.
Hoss, Knight and I are on the cover of the current issue of Rural Heritage magazine. I have a couple of articles inside as well. We were also featured in last week’s Farm and Dairy newspaper. I have a book signing this coming Thursday night from 5 to 7 pm at the Kingsville Library. We have another book signing on February 18th, at the White House Fruit Farm in Salem, Ohio from noon until closing.
We have corporate approval to do book signings at our local Tractor Supply Stores, more info coming soon. Rural Heritage will be coming this spring to film more farming episodes for RFD-TV, so as I said, It’s been crazy busy! I guess I need some recess time like the pigs!
Really, I am about to do just that. The maple season will be upon us very soon. It is my most favorite time of year. I managed to get almost the whole month of March off for vacation. I will be making maple syrup, plowing for next years crops and working in the woods too. These things are some of my favorite things. It simply doesn’t get much better than that!
Hey, Check us out at WWW.RuralHeritage.com Take a look!
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RicelandMeadows 
I’m so glad you & your farm are getting the media attention you deserve! Your pigs live the way all pigs should live until freezer camp day arrives. I think if the general public saw a comparison of how factory farmed animals are raised vs. The way you raise your animals. It would be educational & hopefully lead to the demand of higher quality living conditions until their rendering day. I read that Chipotle is raising the standards to their suppliers of how the chicken they buy is raised. Since they purchase just large volume, hopefully they will be successful. Do you have a link to the Farm & Dairy article online?
Comment by Jacklyn Krysa February 1, 2017 @ 4:49 amYou are right Jacklyn. More folks would like the difference so the best part is, more young people could be farmers. It will some day open up a whole “new” way of doing things….just like American agriculture at the beginning of the last century 🙂
Comment by ricelandmeadows February 1, 2017 @ 10:15 pm