Hey all you fabulous, well-building peoples:

We're waiting for funds to clear through Amazon. We have calls out for competitive RFPs (requests for proposals) to three well-drilling firms in our area. We have 42 piglet naming privileges going out total--and six piglets on-farm at present.  

Buckland Farm will soon be contacting all y'all (or you 'uns, depending on where all you're from) to collect sufficient information to be able to send out your rewards and receive your naming proposals. Please understand that it may take awhile for enough piglets to be born for your naming choice to go into effect. 

However, we have a number of fertile pigs on the property, and more becoming mature on a month-by-month basis. A pig's gestational period is three months, three weeks and three days. Please be patient, as everyone will get a turn and everyone's naming choice will be honored. 

We're also running the dehydrator day and night to get the tomatoes and apples dried--and thereafter packaged. It's been a weird, late growing season--most of our tomatoes are still out in the field. It's a race to see how many can ripen before the first frost at the end of this week. Keep your fingers crossed for us and for your richly deserved produce bounty!

Thanks again (if you like, read more effusive and lengthy thanks over here, on my blog).

And we definitely couldn't have done it without you. What a marvelous experience to go through. How tremendous to see people from near and far pulling together to help us expand our dream of making a place where meat is not a source of shame; where parents can bring their children and explain 'this is where our meat comes from' without losing face or a sense of their own integrity; where the animals themselves live in natural surroundings and tranquility. 

What a gift you all have given the farm: your time, your resources and your generosity all made this effort into a winning proposition!

Thanks,

Hey all you wonderful, marvelous, fabulous, stupendous people! We're watching the numbers, calling our peeps, sending out reminder e-mails and generally working the project as we head into our last 12 hours. 

We have NOT given up. We will NOT be defeated! We will do what it takes (short of taking hostages or raffling off the BMW Motorcycle in the barn) to get to our total. If you know of someone else you could turn on to this golden opportunity to fight the corporate monopoly on meat, to fight the inhuman/e treatment of livestock animals, to fight the loss of species diversity, to fight the *fact* that meat is unhealthy--now's the time to get out your phone and drop that dime!

We're thinking of you all as we go on to pester others! Be of good cheer.

Thanks and thanks and thanks again.

If you're reading this, you're already on board with our project. And we thank you. We really, really thank you. You all have been generous, and have promoted our project through your own networks, and just uplifted morale here on Buckland Farm more than I have space or time to share. 

If you can think of anyone else who would be interested in furthering the cause of humane, healthful, ecologically sustainable, pastured meat please do feel free to share information about our initiative. We still have a ways to go, and only a couple more days in which to get there. But we haven't given up; since at least one of the pigs in the woods is already pregnant, and there's a good chance the other two adult females are in the family way, we can't give up. They'll be giving birth in our barn before the winter is out. 

Give yourselves a pat on the back. Give yourselves a warm hug from me. And if you can think of anyone else who'd like to be on the ground floor of the best pork born and raised right here on Buckland Farm, send them a link!     XOXOXOXO Carrie and Dan