Last fall Jason and I went leaf peeping and made our way about as far north as Montpelier VT. When I posted about this on the blog there was a comment from Walter that we probably drove right by his farm. At that time I began reading his blog and was fascinated by stories of how he trains his dogs, how he constructs housing for his farm animals, what he feeds them and how things change season by season.

After about six months I realized that you can buy one of those pigs should you so desire. I did. I made arrangements and began sending checks the culmination of which was a trip yesterday to pick up said pig, now butchered and waiting in the cooler for us. Jason took the day off, we borrowed some coolers and off we went through the beautiful late fall landscape.
It was rainy most of the way so we didn’t stop for pictures but I caught the clouds kissing the White Mountains
with a dusting of snow as we passed through Franconia Notch State Park on the way home. We arrived at the butcher to learn we were picking up 173 pounds of pork and bones. I see lots of yummy stock and inners in our future!