1155 Wilson Farm Road, Westfield, NC | 336-351-2052
Francisco Farmfest October 1st I’ll bet your pronouncing it wrong. When my wife and I first moved to the area, we pronounced it wrong as well. It’s actually pronounced FRAN cis co, and it is named after a general store previously in the area that was owned by the Francis family and was called the…
We’ve moved the pigs to their spring pen. Here’s a picture from a distance, just showing how natural the pen is, and how much area they have in which to root around – the fences are not shown in this picture. Here’s a more close up of some pretty comfortable appearing animals: There’s even a…
We’ve had our first calf! We had been watching her mother expectantly. About 1 week ago, while feeding the other cattle, I noticed this little youngster come sniffing up to my knee. I thought she was another calf that we had purchased, but then I looked up and saw the other calf across the…
We keep our main flock of chickens in the field behind our house. If you look a little closer, you can see some of them hiding under the red chicken tractor. We keep them in the chicken tractors so that we can rotate them around our fields. Neither of the coops has a solid bottom…
Meet the Luna’s Trail Hogs! These Tamworths don’t have the typical lifestyle of captivity. These pigs enjoy the good life, with ample space to forage for grasses and nuts, as well as daily servings of organic feed, in addition to nightly scraps from the Wilson kitchen. Some diatomaceous earth is added to the feed to protect…