Sausage machines and solar dreams Boxes of cheeping cheepers Here at BOTL Farm, it’s baby chick time! Our chick brooder (farmer jargon for ‘a place to keep baby birds at their ideal temperature’) is one of our sweet 1970s repurposed R... Chickens Comercial kitchen Online Store Solar sausage
Leaky tractors and swashbuckling swales More chops on the way Here at BOTL Farm, we love pork chops more than most people. By that we don’t mean that most people don’t like pork chops as much as us -- we literally mean that if we had to cho... Ask A Farmer Anything Climate Change Pigs Silvopasture Swales Tractor
What even is a pig umwelt? The mind of a pig Here at BOTL Farm, we don’t typically allow visitors on our farm. Not because we’re trying to hide unsavory practices or don’t want people to see where their meat comes from, but bec... NCO Pigs sausage
BYOC, BYOB, and LYOB Hot hot goats Here at BOTL Farm, it's HOT! Each species on our farm deals with heat in different ways, but the extreme heat this year has given ample opportunity to see how heat-tolerant our goats are... Chickens Eggs Goats NCO
Lies by omission and other stories about potatoes Sheep potatoes? Here at BOTL Farm, we don’t mind a good thought experiment now and again. So, let’s all imagine that we’re potato farmers, perhaps in Ireland in 1845. It’s been a lean winter, you’re h... Farm Store Goats Sheep bacon hay piglets
Animal dumps and cute piglets PSA: don’t dump animals you find on the road at a farm Here at BOTL Farm, we run a pretty tight ship around biosecurity. Some might say we’re a little fussy, others say “what is biosecurity?” Cheers. ... Chickens Pigs livestock feed piglets
Pig math & wool pellets Wool pellets: our latest nose-to-tail idea Here at BOTL Farm, we have a delightfully strong commitment to using all the bits of the animals we raise, even the weird bits (who remembers testicle jerky?... Farm Hack Pigs Sheep chicken feed farming mentor grazing slaughterhouse
New market, new sausages, and a special grub deal Return to our New Haven roots Here at BOTL Farm, we have a strong affinity for New Haven. Although we grew up in Michigan and New Jersey (guess who grew up where!), Danielle ended up in New Haven for ... chicken feed new haven sausage
BOTL Farm re-learns F The Great Escaper Pig is here to stay Here at BOTL Farm, we breed and birth the pigs we sell. I mean, we don’t personally birth them, but we maintain breeding sows (farmer jargon for pig-moms). As our... Pigs chicken feed grants
New goatlets, piglets, and puppylets Babieeees Here at BOTL Farm, we raise goats for the cute pics. Oops, we mean for meat. Mostly for meat. Anyways, our enterprising herd of goats has started kidding (farmer jargon, not for telling joke... Dogs Eggs Farm dog Goats Pigs babies piglets slaughterhouse
Not the typical New Year’s junk mail Solo farming Here at BOTL Farm, we have one full-time farmer and one part-time farmer. We are good at vastly different things (e.g. obscure mathematical theories vs actually building/repairing things)... Chickens Dogs Farm dog babies goat skin hemp bedding home delivery sheep skin
Daydreams of burgers What’s a mutton Here at BOTL Farm, we eat all sorts of meat. We also raise animals for meat that may be less familiar to some of our customers, such as goat (which is super-tasty) and mutton (but no o... Ground Beef Ground Mutton Sheep home delivery mutton