Jeff Campbell

I saw some purple vetch had sprouted a flower yesterday. One of my large black oaks has leaves on it today. I saved the best for last, the poison oak is back! It is mean, but it is actually really pretty with it's shiny leaves...

Still here! Ups and downs! I lost my pitbull, Pj. She was 15 and I held her until her last breath when she passed at home. I got her when she was 9 weeks old in NYC. She grew up in a bar on Ave C and then we sailed the Caribbean Sea on a 60' catamaran, moved to California, moved to TX to start a farm then back to the mountains of California. She herded my chickens for me, she did not like the turkeys they did not like her. She liked baby pigs but preferred bacon. Pork bones made her throw up. She lived a full life and it sucks to lose your dog.  
 We have moved about half of our pigs to the new place. I got a livestock guardian dog. We named him, Hudi! His mother is a Maremma his father is half Anatolian a quarter Akbash and a quarter bordie collie. He lives with the goats. The goats have started having babies. We are up at 20 kids so far with another 10 does pregnant.
I apologize for not posting more, Life gets hectic. Our truck, Moby Dick, has been broken down since last Summer and we have been using Uhaul trucks to get by until we can get it back up and running. Our stock trailer has had a flat tire the last four times we have gone to take pigs to the abattoir on the way home. The axles are on their way out too. I am looking for a new trailer and a new set of axles. By this summer I will need a second trailer. We have been looking for a new van or truck but the dealerships do not have any in California for the last 6 months. I have talked to the dealer in Texas I bought my last truck and it seems I will have to order one and a wait a few more months.
I have a new girl helping out on Saturdays at the market. That makes 3 Saturday markets for us and one Sunday market during the Winter. Just an update. I will get some pictures up soon...

We are operating a small farm in Northern California. We raise pigs farrow to finish. We rotate them through the forest, finishing them on acorns and fermented corn. We have the hogs butchered and made into bacon, hams, sausages and fresh cuts that we sell at 18 farmers markets all within 2 hours of our farmstead. We butchered 180 pigs last year and crossed over $100k in sales.
 I have 16 Nigerian dwarf does that have just had babies. I am hand milking a few of them right now. I am looking for someone to come in and start milking twice or three times a day. The milk would be made into cheese and then distributed between our existing customers.  
I have 3/4 of an acre that has been a KNF pig pen for the last four years. I have had over 5000 yards of wood chips from our local area dumped and 22 tons of biochar that have been added to pens that we have farrowed in. This has composted and turned into a 4 foot thick biomass that is hard to describe. We are moving the last sows off this week to our new location. This will become our garden and orchard. I am looking for someone to come in and grow a variety of vegetables and flowers that will be sold at our weekly markets.
The hardest thing for me so far in my life has been to ask for help. I have shared a little of what we do on here in the past. It is hard to do it and document it at the same time. I feel I am doing something special and I am looking for some folks that want to add to it. I started doing this because I was trying to eat the best food I could and I could not afford it. My decision was to start start producing the best the world has to offer. I am doing that and I am trying to produce more than I can on my own now. Pay is negotiable with experience, with room and board included. We have a 125 year old house in a historic mining town. We eat very well and have some of the oldest vineyards in California a few miles from the farm.
This is the first feeler I am putting out. Send me a message if you are interested. Thank you, Jeff.

Hello and thank you, Leigh!

Hello!  I am in California in Amador County, also.  Are any of you still in the area?

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Pigs, goats, sheep, a milk cow, chickens, turkeys, ducks, guineas, quail, rabbits and a big garden!

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