{"id":4343,"date":"2018-09-03T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2018-09-03T18:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:33:32","slug":"bent-pine-farm-year-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=4343","title":{"rendered":"Bent Pine Farm &#8211; Year 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iaqcSV-qkIk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Year 4 got going slowly.  Around December, we started on a brand new adventure\u2026the Lost Arts House at Blue Hen Farm.  <\/p>\n<p>Blue Hen needed renovations.  We tore the carpet out of the den, dining room and living room and painted all the walls with our signature color scheme.  <\/p>\n<p>While we perfected chicken curry, Seth worked on his frittata and learned to put furniture kits together, and learned to drive the tractor.<\/p>\n<p>We started the Pork project, preparing hogs for roasting in the new \u201cOink Oven\u201d.  With two pig roasts under our belt, we decided that it\u2019s more economical to cut up the pig rather than roast it whole.<\/p>\n<p>Next we learned to make sausage\u2026our first experience taking place in the new kitchen at the Blue Hen Lost Arts House.<\/p>\n<p>Early in 2018 the cousins came from Ohio to visit and for Lily\u2019s 9th birthday.  We spent a day tooling up and down the Rainbow River.  Hunter left for Basic Training at Ft Benning GA the following week. <\/p>\n<p>We began raising Call Ducks\u2026for which it turns out you need a license\u2026to sell and a permit to buy! <\/p>\n<p>We expanded our pig breeding operation, without realizing it!  Pigs apparently only need to be a couple of months old to breed!  Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Our Dwarf Nigerian goat, Baby, produced the last of Half&#038;Half\u2019s line.  We named him Spike.<\/p>\n<p>Headed into Year 5, the adventures continue at Bent Pine Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Homesteading,<br \/>\nT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 4 got going slowly. Around December, we started on a brand new adventure\u2026the Lost Arts House at Blue Hen Farm. Blue Hen needed renovations. We tore the carpet out of the den, dining room and living room and painted all the walls with our signature color scheme. 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