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Sound Seeing — Cream Separator

Filed under: Sound-seeing — andrew at 9:39 am on Monday, May 15, 2006

I recorded this in our kitchen May 10th when we decided to make some butter for the first time this year. The first step is to separate the cream from the milk. Since the cream doesn’t float to the top of the milk like cows milk we use a cream separator. You get to hear me assembling the machine, separating some cream, etc.

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Comment by Walter Jeffries

May 15, 2006 @ 11:41 am

Misty, over on my blog Sugar Mtn Farm you had mentioned the issue of overwintering pigs.

It doesn’t take much. We have simple pallet sheds and three sided pole sheds with walls made of hay and dens dug into the hill (also see here) that are effectively three sided sheds too. This year for winter farrowing we made this ultra simple greenhouse structure out of wire and plastic sheeting. In the winter we feed hay to the pigs - that replaces the pasture. They are very hardy and deal well with the cold even here in the mountains of northern Vermont.

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Comment by misty

May 15, 2006 @ 12:01 pm

Thanks for the comment! We’ll give this some more thought — maybe for next year. The two pigs we just got are destined for the freezer. I also don’t want to become a pig farm — I find that there is hardly any odor from just two pigs, but 10+ is a different story! Of course that may be different when you can pasture them.

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