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The Season for Filling the Freezer

The Season for Filling the Freezer

Unlike most folks who call late fall “Indian Summer”, at Fasching Farm we call the time between the killing frosts of fall and mid-November as the “season of filling the freezer.”   Garden vegetables are typically finished growing by September and have already been harvested, processed, canned, frozen or stored in the root cellar.  Soon the temperatures will dive and the snow will stay – only a short window of opportunity to lay in the stores of food required for the…

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Piggie Pool

Piggie Pool

Who doesn’t like a cool dip in the pool when temperatures climb?  Last week I installed the piggie pool and added some water.  Instant piggie play time!  Pigs love water, espcially when it gets warm outside.  And there are reasons why. You may have heard the term“sweat like a pig”? well, pigs they are actually unable to sweat. They like to bathe in water or mud to keep cool, and they actually prefer water to mud. To thermoregulate, they rely on wallowing in water or mud…

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