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Sugar Mountain Farm

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Sugar Mtn Farm brings you tales from the farm in the mountains of Vermont. We raise pastured pigs, sheep, chickens, dogs and children of the highest quality.

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  • Butchering Capacity

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 03:44 in butcher shop

    Rebar Rising on Misty MorningWill is working on putting up pink foam in the inspector's office area for our on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop. Along the east wall you can see rebar rising as I tie it to the steel that sticks out of the slab and...

  • Butcher Shop CSA Pre-Buys

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 06:05 in butcher shop

    Big Pig with Fall FoliageOur secret Big Project is revealed - we are building a USDA/State inspected on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop here on Sugar Mountain. The other day I discussed how we're funding the butcher shop out of pocket through bo...

  • Pink Piggy Palace

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 05:54 in butcher shop

    Foam Insulation Inside FormsOur old farm house, to the right in the photo above, is pink. It was cheap siding as Lloyd, the previous owner, as explained. Our tiny cottage was pink too for a while from the outer insulation around its thermal mass. Now...

  • Funding the Butcher Shop

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 23:31 in butcher shop

    South Field Pigs and Sheep GrazingAs I mentioned in my Sunday post we are building a USDA/State inspected on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop - our Big Project. We need approximately $150,000 to build and outfit the butcher shop. That is about 10...

  • Planting Garlic

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 17:18 in garden

    Hope Planting GarlicNow is the season to plant garlic. At the store they had a lot of garlic which had sprouted so I bought it up. Hope broke it apart for me and poked it in the planters out front of the cottage where we had sunflowers this summer. L...

  • Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 06:09 in butcher shop

    Pigs who will live their entire lives at our farm."...Oh, and just one more thing... We're building a butcher shop."Yes, that is what I said a few days ago. Our top secret big project for the past year and a half is a butcher shop. Well, about as top...

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mommymommyland

5 stars Robin

great pictures of farm life

Posted: January 18th, 2009 | More Reviews From mommymommyland | Report This Comment

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