Tag: Pigs

  • Of Hogs and Hugels: Creating a Perennial Food Forest

    Of Hogs and Hugels: Creating a Perennial Food Forest

    As regenerative farmers, our top priority is to sequester carbon into the soil. There are many methods to do this—and the most effective method for a piece of land depends upon the makeup of the land being regenerated. Since our farm is mostly pasture, we use sheep and poultry to holistically manage the land’s water,…

  • Room to Romp, Room to Roam with Studio Hill’s Pasture-Raised Pigs

    Room to Romp, Room to Roam with Studio Hill’s Pasture-Raised Pigs

    Last week was a big one for our pigs—they graduated! Assured that they had reached a good size to fend for themselves and were sufficiently trained on the electric fence, we let them out of the training paddock of their piglet youth and into the 5 acre parcel of pasture and woods prepared for them…

  • How We Raised Pastured Pork in 2014

    How We Raised Pastured Pork in 2014

    Last year, as one of our early pastured meat experiments, we raised four Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs from Hidden Nest Farm in Argyle, New York. As we strive to provide any animal we bring onto this farm with a full, safe, and interesting life, we circled a 1.5 acre hillside—complete with an old horse stall, trees,…