It’s been another week of enjoying our blessed life here on the homestead. The winter season is a time where the pace slows a bit, we can actually complete everything on the “to do” list, and have a few minutes to savor it all. Here are some things we enjoyed this week.
Delicious Pork
We picked up pork from the processor last week, and we have been enjoying it ever since. The mild sausage is great to fry up and put in anything. We’ve used it in soup, omelettes, and nachos. The pork chops are also a flavorful treat for lunch or dinner! Here’s the recipe I used to make the pork chop pictures below.
Piglets Growing
Every day it’s a joy to see the piglets out running around. Their antics are pretty cute. They’re so small they can fit under the fence and out of the pen, but we don’t worry about it as they never stray too far from mama pig. The other day I was able to catch a piglet as it was outside the pen. This would be impossible to do inside the pen because mama Hillary wouldn’t allow it! Here’s a picture of me with the piglet.
Raising livestock is hard work, but we enjoy so many aspects of it such as watching the piglets. We also believe it’s the right thing to do if we want to eat meat. Our pigs have wonderful lives in the environment where pigs are meant to live. We could never buy pork from factory farmed pigs packed together on cement pads. It’s unhealthy for them and us, and it’s not the right way to treat God’s creatures. We are thankful that we can be part of an alternative.
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