Food for the body and soil

Growing our local food system

February 17, 2022

In the Wild Edge household, we regularly eat the freshest of fresh food, one of the perks of managing a farm. We spent a couple days recently butchering cockerels as part of forming our next flock of laying hens. Our younger son Jake started dreaming of chicken burritos as he…

Babes in Winter

February 2, 2022

Our barn is full of babies, from the 5 new litters of piglets, to the 38 chicks that hatched in our incubator, to the 3 litters of bunnies born unanticipated in the rabbit hutch. They all grow so fast! We were happy to share the baby love with several families…

Heritage resilience

January 25, 2022

You’ve gotta love our heritage Tamworth pigs! We have been creating new spaces this year in the barn for winter housing of our livestock. You may have seen our previous post “High and Dry,” where we moved the Tamworths up the hill in time for December’s heavy rain and snow.…

Workin’ in a Winter Wonderland

January 5, 2022

With most of our animals living comfortably in the barn these past weeks, we are enjoying a lighter work load. The garden, too, is at rest. We planted the last of the garlic just before Christmas, then covered those beds plus the remaining winter carrot beds and the fava beans…

High and dry

December 15, 2021

With all the rain these days, we have been grateful for our sturdy barn. We’re giving our pastures a break during these heavy, wet rains. We’ve generally used our high tunnels for livestock during the winter. This year we had late squash and tomatoes still growing as the rains descended…

Our winter treasures

December 2, 2021

It’s been a good year for squash! I spent some time this morning salvaging a bin full of butternut, buttercup, delicata, mini hubbard and Sweet Meat squashes that had developed soft spots due to excess moisture. When our youngest son Jake came home from school this afternoon, he noted the…

Sweet!

September 30, 2021

As we move into fall our vegetables are putting everything they’ve got into making sure they can produce good seed to keep their DNA viable. The result? Extra sweetness and lots of volume. A case in point would be this Swiss chard we sold at the Wednesday Night Street Market…

Don’t count your chickens

August 23, 2021

Do you remember the beautiful chicks that we incubated in April? Well, now they have become the young hens and roosters you see below. They are growing well, and enjoying a safe and happy, though perhaps boring, life in the barn. The hens will begin laying eggs in a couple…

Rain and radiance

August 9, 2021

What a beautiful rain we enjoyed Friday night and Saturday! After 67 straight days of dry and sun (or something like that), it was a very welcome surprise to receive so much moisture. I hadn’t believed the weather reports about any significant rainfall, so it was especially delightful to hear…

It’s piglet time!

July 21, 2021

Morning sunshine makes for tender moments. And many piglets make for playful activity! One more mama to go! How many babies to you think this sow is carrying?