Sunday, November 20, 2011

Michael's visit to the farm!

Taking a walk through the farm before the rain.


What a wonderful day!
Michael,Kris,Henry,Maya

Monday, November 7, 2011

Pig 101

This weekend the engineering/robotics teams from Fort Worth came out to the farm for a tour and research project on food Safety, one team is researching bacon.



Off to the Red Wattle (Bacon)Barn!



The teams learned about what our red wattle pigs favorite and most healthy foods are. Just to name a few items our pasture raised pigs are eating for the month of November... Chicken, Duck & Goose Eggs, Alfalfa,Texas native persimmons,Wheat,Rye grass, Acorns and fall leaves. Yum!

Fun with the Ducks.

Thank you Jodi and Friends!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Horse Power

Hello everyone...due to the extreme drought Steve and I have had to take on some other part time jobs. I started driving a carriage for Star Buck Carriage Company. Betina Hawkins my good friend owns the company and gives carriage rides for all types of events... including Weddings,Birthday parties and Family reunions. For more info: www.starbuckcarriage.com


The Percheron horses are Caspar and Pepper


I Love You!


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Extreme Drought!




Hello everyone. As you all know we are in an extreme drought...the ground is so hard here from no rain we are unable to till to put in our fall garden. One of our ponds is completely dry.


Some of our Chickasaw wild plum trees are beginning to die off also...they are usually very drought tolerant.


At this time we are postponing the pigapolloza until November...hopefully we will have wetter/cooler weather by then. The fire hazard here at the farm is to high to chance at this time.


Also due to drought we have cancelled our 2012 fruit and veggie CSA program.


We will keep everyone updated. Thanks so much for every ones support! :)







Thursday, June 23, 2011

Pigapalooza!!!!!!!

Hay everyone we are going to have our first annual outdoor festival here at the farm!!!!!

PIGAPALOOOZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OCTOBER 1ST,2011

Celebrating Pork,Pork and more Pork!!!!!

We will have LIVE BANDS!

TOP CHEFS with lots of GREAT FOOD!!!!!!!!! PIG ROAST!

A PETTING ZOO for the kido's.

NATURE TRAILS!


BUY YOUR TICKET TODAY! CONTACT US AT SALES@EDENCREEKFARM.COM

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Bugs!

We have been infested with the Harlequin Bug...They have badly damaged our collards,kohlrabi,radish and turnips.

We are sorry to announce that our CSA has been postponed until further notice.
Our drought situation is critical. Our well is drying up.



Because of the drought we have a very bad bug problem.




















Billions of Squash bugs! We have planted squash and pumpkins 3 times and lost them all to this squash bug.



The dino Kale after a morning lunch meeting with a few worms.







We are way behind on rainfall. This crack is only getting bigger.












WISH US LUCK!

Monday, June 13, 2011

Peter & Piggies!

I have been so busy with the farm... I am way behind on blogging...so I am going to backtrack a little. On May 29,2011 Family came up from Houston to visit and Steve snapped this great shot of Peter in the cone flowers.

They just missed Willma one of our Red Wattle pigs giving birth the next day. This was her first litter and she did it all by herself. 9 were born 8 have made it so far!!!! 4 boys and 4 girls!















She is a very good mother.










Her brother helped carry sticks to build the nest.














She is a first time mom but handles it like an old pro! She loves her babies!