0133 The loss of a beloved sow and honest farming on the web

Chicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

English - January 28, 2015 23:16 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 900 ratings
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** There's one bad word - so for the kids ears this is marked "EXPLICIT" **
This weeks episode was a tough one as we talked about the loss of one of our first pigs ever - our favorite sow Hermione. We talk about the stuff that led up to her passing and then how we managed things after she was gone. That includes how our one lone pig Snow White is doing this winter.
Then we have some Ruminations about the farms online that don't share the lows of farming and only seem to like to share the positives. We talk a bit about the following article -