Editor's note: This is the second part in a series on Nettle Valley Farm. Click here to read the first part. SPRING GROVE, Minnesota ― Dayna Burtness said pig season at Nettle Valley farm is the ...
"Come on pig, pig, pig, pig, pigs," Amanda Hand called on a recent Wednesday morning. From across the grassy pasture, snorts and squeals from 21 Kunekune pigs erupted. They ran through the tall grass ...
Editor's note: This is the first in a continuing series on Nettle Valley Farm. SPRING GROVE, Minn. ― Dayna Burtness and Nick Nguyen make up the minds and hands behind Nettle Valley Farm, where from ...
TUSCARAWAS TWP. − The honeymoon phase for Jen and Joe Lautzenheiser included starting a pasture-based farm. The couple married in 2018 and quickly got to work building and growing Glenview Acres. The ...
Pole Cat Hollow Farm raises beef, lamb, pork and several kinds of poultry, including broiler chickens, ducks and turkeys for ...
AN INTERNET-based pastured pig business was the site of the latest farm walk, part of the Mary Valley Country Harvest project. Tamworth Flyers, at Mothar Mountain outside Gympie, is operated by Julian ...
When Rachel Herrick bought a 47-acre farm in Cameron, NC, she had her work cut out for her. The soil was stripped of nutrients, dry after decades of tobacco farming. But Herrick was undeterred.
That means the pigs wake up at first light, and wander out to graze and eat breakfast out on the pasture for a few hours. Then they all wander back as a herd, Burtness said, to spend the rest of the ...