Pig Wing Farms

12/29/2025

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30 degree drop? 🥶 At least it shouldn’t last too long. Good thing I don’t have to go outside or anything 🥴🫣😬

What are your best cold weather tips, especially for a sudden drop?

12/29/2025

It’s a good day to be me. Some days it’s not a good day day to be me. Some days I’m unloading feed, tripping over tree trunks in the dark, out in the bad weather, and covered in muck. Not today. Today it’s a good day to be me. Today I get to watch this crew grow. Not much work today. The kids and I are going to the new property to unload some stuff then we’re going shopping 🛍️. Then I get to come home and enjoy leftovers. It’s a minimal work on the farm day and a minimal work in the house day. It’s a mild weather day. It’s a good day kind of day!
Meishan piglets living their best life bringing joy to our farm and hopefully to other farms.

12/29/2025

Huge hit! Easy meal for you busy moms out there. No guilt kinda meal. Meishan pork gyro meat…YUM!!!!!

12/29/2025

Alright, I tried the trend…I know, we don’t do trends in farming, but in food YES!

I would personally alter the seasoning I used, but this was a hit and we will definitely do it again.

Use your ground lamb, beef, or Meishan pork. Plain ground, no added spices. Then look up spices for Gyros 🥙 and add in what you like. Blend some onions and garlic and squeeze juice. Add in a couple dollops of plain yogurt. Mix all together (Meishan ground pork, garlic, onions, seasonings, yogurt). Now sandwich mixture between two pieces of parchment paper. Roll flat and thin with a rolling pin. Fold the parchment paper and ground pork mixture (as shown in photos). Bake at 350 for about 20-30 minutes. Serve with lettuce, tomatoes, & tzatziki sauce in pita bread. This was a QUICK & EASY busy mom meal! This took me 15 minutes to throw together and 25ish min to bake and 5 minutes to plate. Kids came back and asked for extra meat! Follow this trend, it’s worth it. I won’t post the recipe I used because I didn’t think the seasoning was authentic and a huge hit, but the texture and flavor of the meat was spot on! Not dry and perfect!

*I bought myself a new food processor/mixer and I couldn’t figure it out so I just chopped my onions. That worked well with no issue. The recommendation is to throw them in a food processor for a few seconds.

12/28/2025

Today has been a long one already, not a bad one, just a long one. Lots of driving, but getting things checked off the list. Driving ALL day without the kiddos (RARE) gave me some time to think and clear my head a bit. The farm is always something that goes into my thought process on how we can improve, change, grow, and even scale back in order to keep doing what we love. We don’t have to be the farm that does it all because we are fortunate to have met some of the most amazing people and farms along our journey and we can always refer what we can’t or don’t want to do so we can truly perfect what we love to do.

In a couple of weeks we will have new sausages in the farm, more of that buck bacon everyone devoured, we will have smaller packs of fat back as requested for those baked beans full of flavor.

Tomorrow we will be filling some Testimony Totes that are going out on 14 Jan. Our goal is to fill 50 totes.

We’d love your insight on what should go into them. Give us your suggestions if you get a minute. These are going to our homeless community so what do you think the ones receiving this would appreciate.

Here’s a list of what we have already:
*Reusable tote bag
*lip balm
*deodorant
*toothbrush
*socks
*snacks
*coffee cup & instant coffee

(If you or someone you know is clearing out those coffee mugs that you don’t use anymore and would like to donate it to the cause we would LOVE it!). We can pick up or meet up if there’s a good amount that you’re cleaning out of the cupboard.

12/27/2025

How is your set up? If you’ve got a pig chute that you load your pigs into I would love to see it! If it’s on wheels (like a trailer) or if it’s fixed into the ground I’m interested. I’d primarily interested in the trailer style so we can more easily move from one part of the property to the next. I’m not lazy, but my calves and thighs aren’t prepared for these rolling hills haha. So, if I can pull it from the comfort of something with an engine that would be great.

Looking for inspiration & suggestions as we build out our forever property. I’ve got some ideas on what didn’t work for us or where we needed improvements or things on my wishlist. I want to build it once or buy it once and have it be the best fit for our needs so I would love to see what is working for all of those out there doing it better or smarter.

Pig chutes on your mark, get set, GO

12/27/2025

Good morning! Mr. Pig Wing came home. We removed the fencing and backed the trailer up to Sue Letta’s shelter. We turned the light on the trailer and she walked right in. She is NOT food driven, not even a smidge, but she absolutely got good pile of her feed after she got in along with some of those leaves they loved earlier in the day because why not.

Today we’re off to a million and one errands and we’re getting it done so we can ring in the new year with a little less on our to do list.

Midnight’s litter of 12 born about a week ago is already exploring further from momma. They are making their way into the backyard. Curious little ones. This is the fun stage where they run & play and ears are flopping. I will get some video soon.

Have a great day and get up and get going on that list. Check off your “honey-dos” and let’s get ready to ring in 2026 with a clear path forward!

12/26/2025

Let’s talk about Sue Letta the beautiful Meishan gilt we have. Sue Letta is also known as Sleepy. She sleeps more than any other Meishan pig we’ve ever had. She often needs her own wake up call for breakfast. She would sleep through it if we let her. She’s a BIG lady too. She’s got this amazing personality and really great build. She’s very easy going.
On days like today I start my day thinking Sue Letta is great…and I end my day thinking WHY? WHY! Sue Letta NEVER wants to load. She’s strong and brave enough to push through most things. She’s smart and determined and never wants near that trailer. All other pigs have been in the trailer ALL day. Not Sue Letta. So here we are at dark, it’s cold and I think I should have been a chef or an artist instead of a farmer. This lady is going in this trailer tonight. We can’t leave this pretty girl behind. Hopefully when Mr. Pig Wing gets home he can help and we can test our marriage by loading pigs :)

12/26/2025

The Meishan pigs are LOVING all these new leaves. We piled up so many totes of mainly oak leaves, and threw them in for the pigs while we were loading them up. They are HUGE fans.

12/26/2025

Turkeys are the boss of this farm looking over the work I do and micromanaging every step I take. Gotta love the turkeys!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! It’s moments like these that I’m grateful for so much in our lives and also moments like these that I’m not grateful one of my son’s gifts was a survival whistle. 🤦‍♀️ Thank you Bass Pro Shops for a great multitool that includes a whistle said no mom ever.

Enjoy your day with family and friends. We hope you feel the love and the true reason for the season today. Yay for no more elves to move around! *Don’t worry, our elves played nice all month.

12/25/2025

BIG NEWS!!! I was wrong. I was so wrong. I have counted and recounted and recounted about 10 times…Midnight had 12 babies, not 11! They are so tiny and wiggle around and I guess I missed one originally. I don’t know the gender count like I thought I did. I will have to recount genders later. I was just out feeding her and making sure they were all there and one didn’t wonder off and that’s when the count kept coming back with 1 extra. Christmas is on this farm for sure!

12/21/2025 Imperial Midnight x Odd Bird Earl welcomed 12 babies. That’s Midnight’s standard litter size so no shocker there. *pic from the other day.