Here at BOTL Farm, we’re not short on ideas. It’s like my mentor used to tell me: it’s important to have ideas, whether they’re good ideas or not, because eventually even a blind squirrel finds a nut.
Let’s talk about one of our latest ideas.
Reducing Waste Streams: A Tale of a Heavy-Duty Paper Shredder Read More »
Congratulations, you have just been e-introduced to the finest farm dog east of the Mississippi. Her name, quite creatively, is pup. Pup is a rescue dog, who began her life somewhere in Texas. She doesn’t talk a lot about her past, but from what we can infer it involved something that makes buckets extremely scary. Pup
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Mangalitsa/Berkshire/Large Black piglet, aka a tiny elephant. Dearest BOTLiebers, The cool mornings, the pup under a blanket, and the dinner time sunsets all tell us the same thing: another summer is drawing to a close here at BOTL Farm. As we put the following touches on our third year here in The House, it occurs
Ninety Nine BOTLs of Farm on the Wall Read More »
Lady Breeder on bottom and one of our purebred Berkshire on top. Both gilts sleeping in a pile. To all who stand at the back of the line, hear us now as we relay a story from BOTL. For no reason at all, we will start this blog post with a poem: There once was
A Primer on Pasture-Raised Pork (Re)production Read More »
Editor’s note… this was published a few weeks after it was written… Sorry about the timing, oops. Greetings! It’s been a long winter since our last update, but spring is beginning to sprung and with spring comes BABIES. Tess, one of our seasoned ewes, gave birth yesterday evening to twins. As Experienced Farmers who have
Our First Sheeplets! Read More »
BOTL Farm now has expanded meat options! If you find yourself braising a rabbit for dinner on Monday, broasting a chicken for lunch on Tuesday, frying a dozen eggs for breakfast on Wednesday, sous viding [Editor notes that ‘viding’, being a conflagration of the French word for ‘vacuum’ and the English ‘-ing’ for a present-tense
Hello there good person. Let’s have a general update on the goings-on here at the Back Of The Line Farm. Come with me, dive right in: 1) The chickens. The chickens may be our greatest success. Birds are gross. Have you ever met a creature that has such disregard for where it poops, and that
Hello there BOTL Farm fan club. Today we explore a tale of success and failure, a story of victory and defeat. A tale of lovely stock and tail. Let’s talk about sheep. When the farm was first established in the summer of 1965, we wrote a business plan using a primitive text editor, similar to
Baaaah to the Bone Read More »
Dearest believer in the BOTL, Have you ever awoken at the break of dawn, stepped out of bed, stretched your legs, and thought to yourself “I really wish I could hear some screaming right now”? Oh man, you should get goats. Goats serve an uncountable number of uses on the farm. Really just two. They
Hi there, poultry connoisseur. We should have told you long ago, but BOTL Farm has chickens. A lot of chickens. We’ve had them for so long that they wander both the pasture and the freezer. You may ask yourself, why have we been keeping this information from you? We have no excuse. All we can
Cluckin and pluckin Read More »
