Market season has begun and other stories about grass Dude, is that your grass? Here at BOTL Farm, we post pictures on social media of our farm that are relatively real-time and not AI-generated. Earlier this month we were at Tree House Brewery/Orchard in Woodstock, CT (who now sells our Soppressata!!!) and the farmer there […]
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Tiny eggs and tiny piglets Pastured pigs do what they want Here at BOTL Farm, we don’t have a boar (breeding male pig) because we don’t want a boar. Boars are big, stinky, and potentially aggressive to humans, especially during breeding time. It’s relatively simple and reliable to artificially inseminate sows (breeding female pigs), so
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Reduce, reuse, and recycle: tales from the farm and New Haven Trip Sheep don’t climb Here at BOTL Farm, it’s still baby season. We had all our goat kids in February and March is for lambs. The first ewe (sheep-mom) to give birth went early in March and then we didn’t have any more lambs
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Goatlets and a trip to Vermont Babiessss Here at BOTL Farm, we love babies. To be clear, human babies terrify and mystify us, but we love working with animals and their babies. All of our goat moms gave birth this month, making it the earliest kidding season we’ve ever had. The moms are all doing
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Getting bodily fluids from a 700 lb pig and other cool farm stuff Getting bodily fluids from a 700 lb pig Here at BOTL Farm, we’ve done lots of weird medical stuff to our animals over the years (when necessary, not recreationally). Right now, we’re working closely with our vets to try and diagnose a breeding issue we’re having in some
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A surprise visit and ‘soupy’ back in stock Surprise visit from Lady Farmer Here at BOTL Farm, our farming mentor is also referred to as ‘Lady Farmer,’ for reasons we don’t totally remember. We volunteered on her livestock farm in New Jersey before we knew we ever wanted to farm. She patiently put up with our questions, opinions, requests,
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Out with the old, in with the new Out with the old, in with the new Here at BOTL Farm, we sometimes get jealous when we see our farmer friends celebrating the end of their growing season. They tell us about their upcoming winter vacay plans, how much sleep they’re going to catch up on,
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Tiny dinosaurs, dragon dip, and other farm updates! Winter is the new spring: chicks are ordered Here at BOTL Farm, we propose that winter is the new spring. Most people think spring is the time to get chicks, probably because that’s when farm stores have the little peepers peeping away in metal troughs. As serious farmers,
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A matriarch retires and other farm updates A matriarch retires Here at BOTL Farm, back when we were young and naive, we never intended to raise sheep. When we were in the beginning stages of putting together our thoughts and money to buy a farm, we wrote a 35-page business plan and it had zero mentions of sheep. Luckily,
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Our new sausage and farming in Crocs? Farmers need software, too Here at BOTL Farm, we imagine our days as farmers will be filled with caring for happy animals; fixing fences; and watching goats attempting ridiculous things, like teaching their kids to climb at three days old, while the sheep watch in disgust. As our farm has gotten better established
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