Katie's Journal

I hate pigs. But I love pork. Sausage, bacon, pork chops, pork loin… It’s all good. Ernie’s grandparents raised hogs, so he knew what good sausage was. Once his family quit bothering with hogs, they kept buying sausage from a local butcher shop. This worked well for a while. But in recent years, hogs have […]

Big pig is now in jars in the pantry. He weighed in about 400 pounds live. He was just over a year old. I think he had more fat on him than the last pig. The last pig didn’t get enough protein – he just got fed corn and oats. This pig we used the […]