Family farm in Vevay, Indiana. Pasture-raised meat shipped frozen nationwide, plus garlic, herbs and home goods. Regenerative and integrated. Agritourism
Vevay, Indiana
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He’s done. Out here again. The count is consistent.
For a piglet to disappear only means really one outcome and it’s just the beast element of nature present.
This is the life - if they are under our care and stewardship then we feel it, not for loss of profit or revenue, but out of responsibility and care.
He was weak, we here noticed it. Uniquely two nights ago I saw him away from the rest and I took him some food. I looked back and he left and buried himself in the hay. So I went and got more hay and covered him more fully to keep him warm and that was the last I saw of him.
More will come and more will go. This is the life of a farm and homestead.
We all meet our end, may we be well prepared
This is a misunderstand about farming. I am missing one piglet and I know which one it is. I know it’s a runt and won’t make it. I still want to help and let it grow to what it can be.
Where is it? I don’t know. I just turned over all their hay. I’ve counted the litter two or three times.
Maybe it’s gone. Maybe I have t found it. I still care.
Absolutely rarely do I engage in these and I am wholeheartedly involved.
Send me an address and I’m sending this man and his family meat for dinner.
I’m so sorry to see him have to reach this point of emotional breakage. Last month a friend, a very close friend of the farm offered me a gift that helped me avoid difficult decisions about our farm mortgage.
I will never forget it - I hope you know who you are. I love you and I am thankful.
I know and understand this man’s pain - I’ll send meat just to take away at least one night worth of food.
The world is healing - who cares about nuclear annihilation, we can only focus on tomorrow and Heaven.
I just witnessed something incredible.
My daughter runs inside, runs over to a giant block of beeswax (hint), and proceeds to attempt to take a bite.
I look over at my wife who assures me it’s normal and the children are chewing beeswax as gum.
…I am proud and alarmed
The audacity and confidence of a chicken is nearly unchallenged amongst animals.
This is my porch where I don’t want you to deliver your chicken presents for me to step on.
Go back to the coop and lay an egg please!
My neighbor trims up the trees a bit differently than most folks.
Does the hardware store carry the helicopter chain saw or no?
This is a misunderstand about farming. I am missing one piglet and I know which one it is. I know it’s a runt and won’t make it. I still want to help and let it grow to what it can be.
Where is it? I don’t know. I just turned over all their hay. I’ve counted the litter two or three times.
Maybe it’s gone. Maybe I have t found it. I still care.
And here is some more of the behind the scenes - my wife might need to be besides us more out here because these are incredible images of what’s happening.
This is one of my favorite videos - I’m going to share a few more but I like this because it shows how I believe you can work with children and livestock.
I just got the weights back - these are big pigs. One is a record for this farm in terms of weight. They are not a joke and you must be careful around them.
I am explaining to my eldest daughter how to manage the farm gate against the trailer gate to prevent a pig from escaping between them and onto the road.
My son I am instructing to walk in a wide radius around the pigs towards that back post to encourage them to be calm and turn their heads towards me.
I control the bucket so their attention follows me. He provides an offensive stature that they shy away from and I provide a reward which they move towards.
The trailer is unfamiliar to them so it must be trumped by their trust in me and desire for food, and the connection between me and food (reward).
My children are not allowed in with pigs without me - ever. So to the pigs they are unfamiliar and undesirable. All attention and trust is on me.
No yelling. No hollering. No quick movements. No physical interventions.
Quiet, slow, predictable.
This is one of my favorite videos - I’m going to share a few more but I like this because it shows how I believe you can work with children and livestock.
I just got the weights back - these are big pigs. One is a record for this farm in terms of weight. They are not a joke and you must be careful around them.
I am explaining to my eldest daughter how to manage the farm gate against the trailer gate to prevent a pig from escaping between them and onto the road.
My son I am instructing to walk in a wide radius around the pigs towards that back post to encourage them to be calm and turn their heads towards me.
I control the bucket so their attention follows me. He provides an offensive stature that they shy away from and I provide a reward which they move towards.
The trailer is unfamiliar to them so it must be trumped by their trust in me and desire for food, and the connection between me and food (reward).
My children are not allowed in with pigs without me - ever. So to the pigs they are unfamiliar and undesirable. All attention and trust is on me.
No yelling. No hollering. No quick movements. No physical interventions.
Quiet, slow, predictable.
I am committed to providing the highest quality of transparency and customer experience I can.
That’s the corporate speak - the better and more clear explanation - I want to treat everyone who interacts with me, Cottage Pastures, etc like close friends and family.
If you have a question, want to know more, want to visit, have a concern with your order, have a question, want to start your own farm or homestead business, want me to help or consult for you, just need encouragement - call or text. 513-543-0749.
That’s my number. I’m posting this from that phone right now.
I am building Cottage Pastures to be the champion farm of regenerative agriculture, most integrated with specialty crops, livestock, value added, pantry goods and more, tourism, short term rental, on farm visits, consulting and more.
I’m so bullish and so hopeful.
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Apparently my wife has an entirely different set of photos and videos of the farm that I do.
And a different perspective as well - I’ve never seen the first picture until just before posting here.
Anyways - I like this life!
A long walk, a final meal and a final night on the farm (here is the full video). I really do love working with these animals.
Some of the most nutritious and delicious - tastiest pork around will be all back in stock in about one week!
And if you're planning to pick up a holiday ham, it's going to be first come first served so act quick (i'll send out an email). And... And... and... Looks like we're going to have not just pork belly, but bacon in stock!
Over the next week we will have a full inventory update beginning with chicken, then pork.
As always - organic certified feed mill, soy and corn free, raised outdoors, on pasture, the forest or elsewhere as seasonally appropriate here in Indiana in the greater United States of America!
We’ve shipped to nearly every state, families all over the Cincinnati tri state region and across the country are sitting down to meals with some of the most nutrient dense and delicious meat we can raise.
I love this. I want to take this all the way and the plans for 2027 are building rapidly!
If you’re not on my email list - make that happen! We’re about to make an announcement for our first non meat products and I am asking for your support!
Step 2 and we’ve got about a quarter of a mile to walk. No fencing. No pathways. Just a relationship and months of attention (and food - I bring food)!
A solid pile of wood and stored hay have become one of the great annual achievements to me.
It’s rewarding and one of the things that is easily understandable by children.
We need to be warm during the winter, so we chop and stack wood
The animals need bedding and feed through the snowy months, so we keep hay available.
I don’t care for winter much but I do appreciate the seasons and their aesthetics.
