Baby goats are the cutest We have kids! Here at BOTL Farm, we let our goats breed naturally, when they come into heat, regardless of when that happens. It’s good for them and terrifying for us. We now have confirmed that in Se... Goats busines plan new country oranics plans
Buckets are a farmer’s best friend The sheep that keep on giving Here at BOTL Farm, you may recall that we used to raise sheep (if you're new here, we had a flock of Icelandic sheep for years). However, at the end of 2024 we decided to... Buckets Farm Store Sheep sheep skin soap
Creaky knees, anniversaries, and storm damage Getting old and creaky knees! Here at BOTL Farm, we value powerful matriarchs. Our goat matriarch has been benevolently ruling our goat herd since we got her eight years ago. Okay, it probably helped ... Farm Store Fence Goats Recipe Storm
Our shortest newsletter yet Babies! Here at BOTL Farm, we don’t have kids (we’re not talking in farmer jargon for baby goats, we mean actual human children). Over the years people have assured us that we would regret not having ... Farm Store Pigs Soppressata
Sausage machines and solar dreams Boxes of cheeping cheepers Here at BOTL Farm, it’s baby chick time! Our chick brooder (farmer jargon for ‘a place to keep baby birds at their ideal temperature’) is one of our sweet 1970s repurposed R... Chickens Comercial kitchen Online Store Solar sausage
Leaky tractors and swashbuckling swales More chops on the way Here at BOTL Farm, we love pork chops more than most people. By that we don’t mean that most people don’t like pork chops as much as us -- we literally mean that if we had to cho... Ask A Farmer Anything Climate Change Pigs Silvopasture Swales Tractor
What even is a pig umwelt? The mind of a pig Here at BOTL Farm, we don’t typically allow visitors on our farm. Not because we’re trying to hide unsavory practices or don’t want people to see where their meat comes from, but bec... NCO Pigs sausage
BYOC, BYOB, and LYOB Hot hot goats Here at BOTL Farm, it's HOT! Each species on our farm deals with heat in different ways, but the extreme heat this year has given ample opportunity to see how heat-tolerant our goats are... Chickens Eggs Goats NCO
Lies by omission and other stories about potatoes Sheep potatoes? Here at BOTL Farm, we don’t mind a good thought experiment now and again. So, let’s all imagine that we’re potato farmers, perhaps in Ireland in 1845. It’s been a lean winter, you’re h... Farm Store Goats Sheep bacon hay piglets
Animal dumps and cute piglets PSA: don’t dump animals you find on the road at a farm Here at BOTL Farm, we run a pretty tight ship around biosecurity. Some might say we’re a little fussy, others say “what is biosecurity?” Cheers. ... Chickens Pigs livestock feed piglets
Pig math & wool pellets Wool pellets: our latest nose-to-tail idea Here at BOTL Farm, we have a delightfully strong commitment to using all the bits of the animals we raise, even the weird bits (who remembers testicle jerky?... Farm Hack Pigs Sheep chicken feed farming mentor grazing slaughterhouse
New market, new sausages, and a special grub deal Return to our New Haven roots Here at BOTL Farm, we have a strong affinity for New Haven. Although we grew up in Michigan and New Jersey (guess who grew up where!), Danielle ended up in New Haven for ... chicken feed new haven sausage