W Conspiracy Farm

05/09/2026

Sorry we won’t be there today we have a family emergency but are looking forward to Victoria Day weekend!

03/16/2026

We are getting excited!

01/26/2026

I think while clearing snow I’ll cling to this emotional support fact!

01/08/2026

The food deliveries continue and the puppies make an appearance being their cutest selves

12/28/2025

The weather outside has started to become frightful, but we are as prepared as we can get and the fire is indeed delightful.

All the animals have extra food, water and bedding and we are hoping to ride this out without relying on all of the systems we put into place but we are as prepared as we can be.

Please stay off the roads if you can and stay safe and warm.

Love from the farm!

12/26/2025

I would love to have a well focused, well lit holiday picture of the girls but this is what we got after wrestling, treats, drool and quite honestly begging so this is what we get🤪
A very Merry Christmas from our chaos to yours and our wishes for joy and at least a little warmth in the new year!

It is worthy to note that Mica at just 4.5 months old has reached her big sisters size. It’s going to be entertaining watching her grow for sure!

12/26/2025

I will say that our pigs are occasionally demons but mostly to the chickens who they absolutely adore surprising with a snoot to the butt.

Interesting view on historical prohibitions about pork.

I have long been perplexed why nutritionally rich pork, along with shellfish, are forbidden by multiple religions.

I figured it had something to do with middle eastern weather not killing off parasites like Northern Europe and Asia. But I was wrong! It’s about power over the population.

Just got this essay today. Thank you Lori!
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Ancient Middle East, roughly 1000 BCE. Multiple religions suddenly develop prohibitions against pork. Judaism, Islam, later various Christian sects. The explanation given is hygiene. Pork carries trichinosis. It's "unclean."

https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/letters-from/on-the-origin-of-the-pork-taboo/

But here's the interesting part: Cattle and sheep carry diseases too. Anthrax, brucellosis, various parasites. Yet beef and lamb are deemed clean and acceptable.

The real reason for pork prohibition is economic and political. Pigs are democratic animals. They're easy to raise. Any peasant family can keep a pig, feed it scraps, and have meat for winter. Pigs don't require large grazing lands. They convert waste into protein efficiently.

Cattle and sheep, however, require pasture. Land. Lots of it. Land that must be controlled, owned, managed. Land that concentrates in the hands of those wealthy enough to hold it.

In ancient societies, if everyone can raise pigs, everyone has access to meat. Power disperses. But if meat requires cattle grazing on large estates, meat access becomes controllable.

The priests and rulers who established dietary laws weren't idiots. They understood that pork democratized protein access. A peasant with a pig was independent. A peasant dependent on beef from landlord's cattle was controlled.

The "unclean" designation wasn't about parasites. It was about power.

This pattern repeats through history. Medieval European nobility consumed pork freely while peasants were restricted. Victorian England saw pork associated with lower classes while beef signified wealth and status.

Modern industrial agriculture has inverted some of this. Factory-farmed pork became cheap commodity meat. But the cultural associations remain. Beef is prestigious. Pork is common.

The interesting thing is pork is nutritionally excellent. High in fat, rich in B vitamins, contains all essential amino acids. It's particularly high in thiamine, crucial for metabolism.

But it was shamed, restricted, and prohibited not because it was inferior, but because it was too accessible.

When everyone can access protein, hierarchies flatten. The elites have always understood this. That's why pork was made "unclean" while beef and lamb were sanctified.

Control the meat supply, control the population. If that meat supply is too easy to produce independently, demonize it.

12/24/2025

So a few weeks ago I saw an ad for a company called Food Mesh. They’re quite established in BC and just getting started here in Ontario.

I wrote to them and heard back almost immediately that they were just kicking off and it would be a while but only a couple weeks after that they connected me with a the receiving manager at a Scarborough Costco.

It’s quite a drive, but we’ve had our first pickup and I’m extremely happy with the results (as are the pigs).

One bag of garbage, enough plastic recycling that I’m likely to have to add a visit to the dump to my weekly to do list and about an hours work to sort and empty but get a load of the pictures! The pigs have a huge variety of high quality food scraps to supplement their diet.

Thanks so much to costco_canada and food_mesh and I’m looking forward to our future endeavours!

12/10/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Bonus shots of our growing girl.

11/04/2025

Doing pumpkin pickups this week

Tuesday- Coboconk, Norland and Woodville
Wednesday- Lindsay
Thursday - more Lindsay and Kirkfield.

Msg me your address for a guaranteed pickup or just put your pumpkins on the curb.

Any pumpkin growers who want a bulk sale please message me!