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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

HOWELL FARM IN THE NEWS

Check out my article about Howell Farm that was published in The Christian Science Monitor today:

http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/24/farming-interns-sow-their-sustainable-oats/

Also, here's another article of mine related to sustainable living they published back in 2007. I discovered today it's one of the stories featured on The Monitor's Centennial Page. Good choice editors!

http://www.csmonitor.com/centennial/events/monitors-stories/2008/07/his-energy-bill-is-0/

By the way, take some time to look at the design and content of the Centennial Page. I think it's the best-looking newspaper website I've ever seen.

HOWELL FARM PHOTOS: THE ROAD GRADER

The farmers hooked four horses up to an old-fashioned road grader this morning. But they weren’t fixing roads. They were going over the field where the plowing match was held last month and trying to flatten everything out.




FOUR PIGS WENT TO THE MARKET

Howell Farm’s four pigs were delivered to the market in Hackettstown last week to be auctioned off. This is the destiny of most animals that are raised on farms, and many other pigs in New Jersey get raised in buildings with cement floors, so I didn’t feel guilty or sad or anything like that. I saw with my own eyes that the Howell Farm pigs lived a decent life, at least for the six months they were here.

With that said, my time interacting with the pigs here has convinced me that they are very social, intelligent, friendly animals, almost like dogs. For me, personally, that’s given me enough to think about that I’m now considering cutting pork out of my diet. I do love the taste of bacon though — breakfast would never be quite the same.

In comparison, I’ve spent time around the oxen and I still have no qualms about eating beef, provided the animals get to live a healthy life with lots of time spent in a pasture eating grass. And chickens, they’re good eating too.

Below are pics of the four new piglets who arrived on the farm this week: