I feel like a whole bunch of people I care about are hurting right now. All around, our community suffers from grief, confusion, aimlessness, emptiness, loss, and pain. Be patient, friends. Have faith. Have faith in each other, in our human community, and in the bright and beautiful future ahead. Ask for help, and trust…
Plenty of people love to eat meat, but are concerned that they shouldn’t, because of negative stories that they see about animal products. The environmental impacts of flooding manure lagoons; pictures of animals being treated poorly; the long distances food is trucked to get to our plates; and simply not knowing (or trusting) the companies…
There’s a little something extra special about Vermont in August. Maybe it’s the fact that things slow down a teeny bit (seems like everyone takes a few days off sometime in August!) or that we cling a little more tightly as the evening starts to arrive a little earlier. It could be I’m speaking a…
A customer stopped by to pick up her half pig today. She lives out of state and waits until the smoked meats are back from the smokehouse to pick up her entire order at once. She has been a loyal and wonderful customer for many years, but today she confided that she still had some…
Wow, what a whirlwind summer! I don’t know about you, but based on all the things I have scheduled in the next two months, I keep having to check the calendar to make sure it’s only July. 🙂 I’m guessing that your lists are just getting longer, too. It seems like we work harder and…
Would you like to spend a summer evening enjoying a unique culinary experience with a fine view? Let us take your dining world to new heights! Join us for an over-the-top grilled and smoked dinner hosted at beautiful Howling Wolf Farm in Randolph, VT where we’ll treat you to some of our finest barbecue specialties….
Do you want to try grilling, but find the choices of fuel, cookers, and timing overwhelming? Are you an experienced griller ready to step up your game? Are you a food lover looking for a fun Saturday spent hanging out and eating tasty treats right off the fire? Chris Sargent, pitboss of Howling Hog BBQ,…
This weekend we harvested the first of our own pigs since 2013. Gosh I missed them. These piglets were born in Washington, Vermont, just about 30 miles away. They rode in a hay-lined truck to Randolph, and spent the rest of their lives rooting and snoozing and companionably sniping at each other over the food…
OK, I’ll own it. I’m a sucker for lambs. I wait every year to see what colors they’ll be and how many each ewe will have, and how strong and amazing they’ll be (they stand in minutes and often jump around within hours…it’s awe inspiring). Lambing season isn’t all sunshine and roses, despite the pictures…
It’s been more than eighteen months at the new farm, and there is much to share. After the emotional roller coaster of finding and making the right location happen, we spent the fall of 2016 rushing around to get ourselves and the animals settled before winter. And then we mostly collapsed. Most of our friends…