Monday October 24th 9 am – 2pm 191 Sheaffes Rd Goonengerry Featuring Thomas the Meat Engine with Special Guests 5 hours of Meat Madness Try Beefore you Buy—Free Samples Cook your Own and Take it Home Start Your Engines at 9 am–That’s when we light up Thomas and start the low and slow cooking of various bits […]
Double Pastured Pig Delivery
Two of our Gilts, who were a little further on then we thought, brought us some more heritage breed piglets yesterday. Not ideal settings for either of our first time girls; however, some fast work by Brad ‘Vortex’ and we got a new farrowing pen setup for New Pig 1 Mum and her 4 piglets. […]
Gypsy delivers again
Another just in time production at Cromwell Farms. About 3 hours after I blogged about Alison and I making room in the farrowing pen for our next Large Black Lady in waiting–the waiting was over. Just goes to show how clever and dedicated our heritage breeds are to their own genetics. No way was Gypsy […]
Large Black Boar Road Trip
It has been way too long since I have been on a road trip with Morley. That’s going to change on Wednesday as we hit the road to pick up 3 Large Black Boar piglets from Black Beauty Pigs. The Large Black piglets we bought from Judy 3 years ago have bean real beauties. Our […]
More Piglets for the Pasture
An exciting morning on the Cromwell Farm today. We were greeted by 12 lovely little Large Black x Berkshire/Hampshire piglets from our Gilt Diesel. And what little black beauties they are – Diesel, girl, you are a star! It must be true that heritage breeds happiness. So happy. A special thanks to mid-wife Linda for […]
Babe Large Black Pig Update
Our gilt is really putting the Large in Large Black. We are anticipating doubling our pig count in the next few days as we wait for Babe to drop. She is looking good, eating well and enjoying the warmth and seclusion of the big pig stye. Here she is last night after I gave her […]
Preparing for Piglets
Just found a great resource and read for folks interested in breeding pigs. Specifically free range rare breed pigs. Thanks Tillari Trotters, looking forward to visiting your farm one day when we are up your way. http://www.tamworthpigs.com.au/Farrowing_to_Sale.html
Pigs in the garden: before and after
We have had some great results using our large black pigs in our vegetable gardens. Below are a couple of before and after pictures that show the swine assisted transformation. Big thanks to our cheer leader Dan Swan for pimping how Hugh from River Cottage uses his pigs. Here is the same garden bed 6 […]