Black wattles? Relaunching pastured heritage pork

As the sun rises at the farm we find yourself on eureka California. Why? Over the weekend we decided it is time to relaunch our pasture pig operation. With so many on the waiting list for pastured soy free heritage pork... we realized we had to do something drastic. Our breeders have not produced a litter in quite a while.  Unfortunately our reasearch had revealed that there may be a problem with the blood line of our red wattle pigs at the root. Apparently there is a specified line originating in the state where we bought our breeders that only produce litters every couple years. Seems we won the lottery on this!

All of our sows are related, either sisters or offspring, so any genetic issue could easily be present in all. This appears to be the case. So we are going to start over. 

We have decided to relaunch the hog operation with an even better approach. Heritage hybrids. All research points to this being the best way to overcome genetic problems while strenghtening a herd. We have chosen to mix red wattles with large black hogs to produce black wattles.

The large black is known as the bacon hog. It produces the worlds best bacon with more meat per slice than wattles. Mixing the red wattle with the large black produces a pork that us an amazing blend of the best qualities of both breeds. The pork should exceed the quality of either alone too.

So... here we go. Found a breeder, loaded up last night, and off we go to eureka. By tonight we will be back at the farm with our large black sows to mate with our existing red wattle boar.

The other good news is that we will be processing all 4 red wattle breeders soon providing about 2000 pounds of excellent red wattle pork for sale. If you have been waiting... now is the time!

Monsantos key man... president obama?

I generally steer clear of political debate and support in this blog, focuding on more important matters of health and mutrition. However this nees story came up thay crosses thd lines of politics and our nutritional and agriculture future. The whole issue of GMO crops, labeling foods made with them, stopping their parade to permanently corrupt human food across the planet, these are things near and dear to my heart.

This story points out that president Obama apparently just flat out lied about his support for GMO labeling. In fact, after stating his understanding and care for the antiGMO concerns during campaigning, he orchestrated the largest government sanctioned  adoption and proliferation of GMO anything ever in history. Obama is apparently the most actively proGMO president possible.

It is one thing to openly be proGMO and by extension PROBIG BUSINESS, but the problem here is that he publically says he supports labeling, organic gardening, nutrition... while privately working against it. That is just about the worst manner of leading... open lies.

Here is the article I refer to.... read it yourself and judge.


 Meet Monsanto's number one lobbyist: Barack Obama 

Ghosts? Enemy attack? Natural disaster?

Today was weird... bizarre actually. Is this place haunted or perhaps a new form of crop circles? You tell me!

We left the farm today to head over to Klamath Falls. We found an older commercial freezer and cooler that would fit perfectly in the farm store. We left the farm about 2 pm. When we returned around 5 we found a bizarre not easily explained sight. See the picture!

The turkey roost in the orchard was no longer.... in the orchard! It was about 10 feet away upside down in the garden. The fence post between the two was bent almost to the ground. Apparently the roost had fallen over backwards... bent over the post , and ended up on its roof in the garden.

There were no signs of anything anywhere that showed any movement. No tire or foot tracks, no scrape marked on the ground. Nothing... as if the roost was picked up in the front and pushed over onto its back and rolled on its top.

Imbalance maybe! Unlikely.... any extra weight would be in the front pulling it over forward, not backwards.

Gust of wind? No record of it on our weather monitor, which recorded a top gust of only 15 MPH today. Plus the wind today was from the west, not the direction the roost was facing. And... nothing else was out of place. Strong wind gusts would have moved quite a few things

Other portable structures in the pasture jlon the north and south sides of the garden were untouched. Some were much lighter and less aerodynamic than the roost and yet they were sitting properly.

The only explanation I can think of is perhaps a mini tornado that came down just at the roost and left,  causing no other visible damage. Sounds far fetched but.... what other explanation is there? Hauntings from michevious ghosts?

Ideas anyone?

The stanford organic food study

Here is an article stating another aide of the story of organic produce in light of the now famous Stanford study.


 What the study forgot to mention: Organic food can save the world from devastating climate change 

Organic foods a biosecurity risk?

This article from Dr. Mercola explains a lot! The recent us government push to support and approve as many genetically modified crops as possible as quickly as possible, while simultaneously suppressing right to know campaigns and discrediting organic methods all follows logically if Dr. Mercola is right.

Bottom line is this... the government has decided that organic food is a biosecurity risk. Only genetically altered foods are controllable and therefore safe. So to keep America safe from biological attacks to our food supply, organic methods must be contained.  That is an eyeopener!

Problem is they are wrong. Only using the same tactics as the tobacco industry to disprove connections between smoking and cancer can disprove organic food more healthy. In fact truly scientific studies done right who nonorganic food to be a huge health risk, and gmo food to be devastatingly dangerous and toxic.

We (the American public)  need to wake up now and think through what we are being told. Our lives and our children's future depend on it. We are custodians of our children's future, and thereby responsible to hand them a better world than we received. Look at the evidence and think through the facts and it is obvious, the reasoning of the conventional agriculture, factory farm, and gmo crowd is faulty and puts our grandchildren at great risk.

This is a great article to read through and discuss.

Organic Foods are Safer and Healthier than Conventional... True or False?