Half Mile Down

10/31/2025

Fun fact about the pork industry… there are two different worlds. The production side and the show side. While the production side of the pork industry is very important to our world the show side is very important to our youth! Check out Adeline’s interview with her cousin for a deeper look into the show pig world!

10/11/2025

Celebrating National 4-H Week and Pork Month with the best pig mentors and cousins around — Brooklynn, Bryce, and Brock! 🐽 We’ve learned so much from these three in and out of the show ring, and we couldn’t ask for better role models to look up to! Thanks for setting the bar high! 💚
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05/18/2025

When he asks “Do you wanna check the pasture?”

05/16/2025

After suffering a very tragic and traumatic loss a year to the date…. I’m happy to announce we are back in the swan business. We were blessed to hatch these two beautiful cygnets on Monday. This has been a long year of wondering what we might have done wrong with our little guy last year and trust me when I say I hit the books on research so I was fully prepared this year. I’m so grateful for my friend Betty who was so gracious to trust us with hatching these beautiful eggs. Seriously the coolest eggs I’ve ever had my hands on. This whole experience has been an amazing opportunity not only for me but my kids as well. Looks like we are really going to need to get our pond done now. 🤭🦢🦢 Stay tuned for more updates! 🤍
“Always be yourself unless you can be a swan then always be a swan!”

05/01/2025

Bacon has a new bestie! Adeline is officially your 2025 Scott County Pork Ambassador! She’s fired up to spread her love for Iowa Pork, teach the community why pork matters, and of course… talk a lot about bacon! Proud is an understatement!

03/30/2025

Fun Fact… Food taste better when it’s pretty!

03/30/2025

03/05/2025

When all you want to do is ride in Daddy’s tractor!
#2+2 #6588

03/03/2025

If you’ve been wondering where we’ve been all winter I can assure you we haven’t been hibernating. We’ve been showing cattle, tons of cheer competitions and raising chickens! Egg production has been at an all time low but with warmer temps hopefully we will resume our normal production soon. I’m starting to turn on incubators waiting patiently for silkie eggs. And if you know me I have a plan and those plans usually get derailed very quickly. Raising 4 kids will do that. Thanks for sticking with us through this journey of whatever this is. I plan to resume some content of some sort in the future but for now we are just living and loving life.