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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks! And yup! We don't have any goats in milk right now but when we do we make a bunch. This is from a couple years ago:

Half-rounds of feta sprinkled with salt drying on a cheesecloth-lined wire rack

Half rounds of feta pulled from brine stacked on a white plate

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Leftover rice and beans turn into delicious patties. Topped with sliced jalapeño from the garden and feta from the goats, with a side of potatoes from the garden as well. 🌱🍽️ #SmallFarmLife

16 burger buns cooling on 2 wire racks on top of a chest freezer in the corner of a room

8 bean burger patties cooking in oil in a large cast iron skillet onna gas stovetop

A plate of black bean burger patties arranged in a circle on a wooden cutting board

Bean burger patty on a homemade bun, cut in half, with mayo, feta, and jalapeño slices. Roasted herby potatoes on the side.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know I'm not supposed to pick favorites but the youngest chose the first film 2 weeks ago and decided to continue for this week's movie night...

TV screen with the title screen of Lord of the Rings The Two Towers showing. A desk with LEGO sculptures is below the television.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rabbit Rabbit, happy October everyone! 🐇 #SmallFarmLife

A grey bunny on a wooden platform in front of a wooden wall. Its ears are perky and it looks like it just sniffed some delicious kale it's about to devour.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Weather is a bit cooler but we're still getting sweet and hot peppers from the garden for pizza night 🌱🍽️🍕

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm so sorry to hear that Saavik. Hopefully she can be as comfortable as possible.

A grey and black striped kitten with perky ears fights off sleep in the arm of a young child

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Instead of waiting around for ChipDrop I flagged down the crew that was doing some work around the power lines across the street and they happily offloaded their chips. Traded them some sausage as a thank you. 🌱🐖🌲 #SmallFarmLife

A pile of mulch, maybe 4' tall, 10' long, 8' wide, in some grass surrounded by trees and bushes

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am happy to live in a state that allows me to grow my own medicine, but wish we could end the prohibition nationally 🌱

White dude in his early 40s, salt & pepper beard, wearing black shorts and a gray/tan/brown Vandoliers t-shirt stands next to a cannabis plant that has almost completely engulfed him.

White dude in his early 40s, salt & pepper beard, wearing black shorts and a gray/tan/brown Vandoliers t-shirt carries a cannabis plant over his right shoulder similar to how one might carry a Christmas tree.

White dude in his early 40s, salt & pepper beard, wearing black shorts and a gray/tan/brown Vandoliers t-shirt gives double thumbs up and stands next to a cannabis plant hanging from barn rafters to dry

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Onions have stored well, peppers are still going strong, and sausage stays fresh in the freezer. Pizza night with a bunch of backyard ingredients 🌱🐖🍽️🍕

Sausage pizza on an aluminum pan cooling on an oven grate

Plain cheese pizza on an aluminum pan cooling on a wooden cutting board and the back of an oven. White tile wall in the background.

Veggie pizza with red onions, red & green peppers, and mushrooms on an aluminum pan on a wooden cutting board

Veggie pizza with red onion, red & green peppers, mushrooms, and chili peppers on an aluminum pan cooling on a wire rack

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ugh I didn't want an indoor animal but the small humans are relentless

A small grey and black tabby kitten eats out of a small plastic lid on a bamboo floor. A Marshall DSL 40 and a black leather couch are in the background.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lila outdid herself tonight. Backyard mangalitsa loin roast butterflied, stuffed, and rolled with apples & cranberries with a side of mashed taters and applesauce from the garden. And spice cake for dessert. #SmallFarmLife 🍽️🌱🐖🎂

Rolled and tied pork loin on a grill grate

Blueish green plate with a couple slices of stuffed pork loin, mashed potatoes, and apple sauce on a placemat on a bamboo table

Spice cake with "41" candles flanked by marigolds

Cross section of a 4-layer spice cake on a milk glass cake platter, bearded white dude with salt & pepper hair and beard blurry in the background.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm usually not a fan of fake meat but the beyond steak tips were on sale and I haven't eaten beef in 4 years so decided to give it a go. Not bad, but doing it again I'd cut the "meat" and double the shrooms. 🍽️

Cast iron skillet full of fake beef stroganoff with egg noodles and mushrooms

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chopped up some of the dried figs from the backyard to mix into granola bars. 10yo decided to sample one before I could snap a pic 🍽️🌱

A pile of homemade granola bars made with rolled oats, chopped almonds, dried figs, dried dates, chocolate chips, and honey on a wooden cutting board, the bar at the top has a giant bite taken out of it

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

8yo helping with kale planting 🌱

A young child with medium-length dirty blonde hair wearing a blue shirt, blue shorts, and no shoes uses the flat side of stiff-tined garden rake to level a freshly tilled garden bed in front of a compost area made with pallets

Translucent plastic quart container about 3/4 full of kale seeds with some dried pods in there as well, held by a left hand with a bandaid on the thumb. In the background is a freshly planted bed, maybe 8' by 20', bordered with wood.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yup! Still have a bunch of jam from last year hence the dehydrating this year.

Pint jars, half pint jars, and quarter pint jars of spiced fig jam in boxes on a black wire shelf next to a brown wall

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was born in SC to parents from eastern TN with roots in GA and NC. Nailed it 😅

Your dialect map

Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.

You talk most like someone from South Carolina - about 51% of your answers match a typical resident.

Then there's an image of the United States, pretty red in the southeaste, with blue up in the northeast and northern midwest.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Weekend in the woods with the kiddos was nice, but I really need a few weeks, or months, to truly feel refreshed

Downstream view of a creek with lush green banks and trees overhead

Upstream view of the same creek, water level is low, 4 young kids building castles with the creek mud

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Backyard mangalitsa bratwurst cooked over a campfire 120 miles away from home while camping in the foothills of the Blue Ridge 🍽️🐖 #SmallFarmLife

4 bratwurst cooking on a grill grate over a campfire

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pretty cool that the night-blooming cereus bloomed during the lunar eclipse last night 🌱🌵

A white spiky looking night blooming cereus flower on a concrete stoop.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We need more heritage rainbow-farting hogs

A wooly blonde mangalitsa pig snurfles in the dirt with a scrubby grassy field in the background. There's a rainbow behind the pig looking like it's coming out of his butt.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looks like we got ourselves another farm cat. We heard this little mewing sound coming from the minivan, and found this little one stuck in the engine bay.

A gray and black striped kitten, just its little tiny head exposed, in between the radiator fan and engine of a minivan.

A scared black and grey kitten being held in a woman's left hand while a child pets it

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not quite enough to do my typical big batch of hot sauce but I'll get these dehydrated and turned into chili powder. 🌱🌶️

A grill basket with chili peppers. Clockwise from the top left: red and green poblanos, green jalapeños, some with a bit of purple, red fish peppers, yellow and orange banana peppers, red/orange/yellow biquinhos.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Our peppers aren't as prolific as previous years but still just as delicious 🌱🍽️🫑🌶️🧅🧄

6 bell peppers, 4 green, 1 red, 1 purple (I think?) on the right side of a bamboo cutting board. To the left, there is an onion bulb, garlic bulb, spring of Thai basil, a green jalapeño, red fish pepper, yellow biquinho, and red buquinho pepper.

Bell peppers stuffed with lentils and rice and topped with melty browned cheese in a ceramic dish cooling on a wire rack

A greenish plate with 2 lentils & rice stuffed peppers next to a naan.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here's a couple of bees enjoying flowers in the garden 🌱🐝

Black and yellow fuzzy bumblebee colleting pollen from the center of an orange tithonia

Black and yellow eastern carpenter bee with a fuzzy yellow thorax and shiny black abdomen collecting pollen from some white flowers of a basil plant. Plenty of green basil leaves in the background.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy Friday y'all. Pizza night with toppings from the backyard 🍽️🌱🌶️🫑🍅🧅🐖🍕

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Taco Tuesday's rice & beans become Thursday's bean burgers 🍽️🫘🍔

7 bean burgers on a black plate on a grey countertop with a yellow spatula off to the upper right

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sooooon! Check out this apocalypse scorpion ALMOST ready to pick. It'll add some heat to a fig & chili jam. 🌶️

A crinkly demonic-looking chili pepper, mostly firey orange with the tip still green, hanging off of a plant next to a wooden stake.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not quite a gazillion yet but we're up to a couple dozen a day 🌱

A shallow blue bowl with a few dozen figs in it on a gray countertop

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some dads pass down guns or cars to their sons. I, on the other hand, am passing down this family heirloom to my teenager 🤓

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Goats are so funny. This dude has been standing like this and seriously has not moved for 2 hours. He did finally hop off when I shook the treat bag. #SmallFarmLife #GoatSky

A mostly black goat, 1/2 Kiko, 1/2 Nubian, with brown on his legs and white on his belly (you can't really see the belly but trust me on this) standing upright on a fallen tree in the middle of an overgrown field.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Summer dinners from the backyard are the best. Corn from our neighbor. slSquash, onions, tomatoes, garlic, & lemon basil from our garden. Pasta from the store. 🌱🍽️

A dozen and a half corn cobs in their husks getting charred on a gas grill

Corn cobs off the grill with the husks removed on a (gray? pink?) plate on a wooden table. The corn kernels are white and yellow with some of them charred from the grill.

A blue bowl with pasta tossed with sauteed onions, garlic, cucuzza squash, tomatoes, and lemon basil with a grill-charred corn cob on top.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Found this little freeloader while weeding the hot peppers just a bit ago

A green and white striped horn worm that hasn't missed a meal nomming on some jalapeños foliage

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We don't eat a lot of meat, but when we do we grow & process it ourselves. Rabbit tacos with fresh veggies from the garden. #SmallFarmLife 🌱🍽️🐇

Raw rabbit meat marinated with soy sauce, lime juice, cumin, and onion powder in a crock pot with fresh cayenne peppers and dehydrated serrano peppers.

Wooden cutting board with 2 red tomatoes, 2 golden tomatoes, a green jalapeño pepper, green and white striped fish pepper, orange hot banana pepper, dark green poblano pepper, white onion, garlic bulb, green sweet pepper, and a knife on a grey countertop.

Brown ceramic plate with 2 toasted corn tortillas filed with rabbit, tomatoes, avocado, diced chilis, and hot sauce, with brown rice cooked with onions, garlic, and tomatoes and a scoop of black beans on the side.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Summer Sunday Roast from the garden. Vegetable gratin with cucuzza & yellow squash, caramelized onions, Roma tomatoes, and basil. Grilled eggplant topped with bruschetta and balsamic vinegar. Summer will be over before we know it but we're taking full advantage while it's still here 🌱🍽️

A young boy wearing a blue Thomas the Tank Engine shirt stands under a trellis holding 2 cucuzza squashes longer than he is tall, in front of 4 more leaning up against the trellis.

A vegetable gratin in a glass baking dish cools on top of a stove. The veggies underneath are hidden by a breadcrumb, parmesan, and red onion topping sprinkled with chopped basil, while a few tomatoes peel through.

Grilled rounds of eggplant on a 1/4 sheet pan

Vegetable gratin (yellow summer squash, cucuzza squash, caramelized onions, roma tomatoes, breadcrumb topping) on a plate next to 3 slices of grilled eggplant topped with bruschetta and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar with a side of couscous, all on a green plate on a wooden table.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I kinda wanted to use the excuse of the lower oven not working to go ahead and get a fancy dual fuel Wolf I've been eyeing for years. But replacing the igniter glow bar and heat deflector only set me back $125 and 15 minutes, so maybe this GE will last another 13 years... #DIY

A man wearing a cream colored shirt and black shorts lays on his side on a gray tile floor with his hands inside of an oven illuminated with a head lamp.

A heat deflector from an oven that has a hole burned through it in the rear, rests in a gray tile floor next to a multi-bit screwdriver case and other oven parts

Freshly intsalled new oven heat deflector in the bottom of an oven.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hell yeah it's Friday! Fresh garden veggies (no diarrhea jalapeños here) with some basil tucked under the cheese, backyard mangalitsa sausage on the meat one 🌱🍽️🍕🐖

Pizza with sliced onion, red and green peppers, roma tomatoes, and jalapeños on an aluminum pan cooling on top of a stove

Pizza with sliced onion and red and green peppers on an aluminum pan cooling on top of a stove

Plain cheese pizza on an aluminum pan cooling on top of a stove

Sausage pizza on an aluminum pan cooling on a rack on a gray countertop

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

12yo continuing his watermelon harvest. Banana for scale. 🌱🍉🍌

A young child with shaggy dirty blonde hair wearing a white shirt and some greenish yellow shorts kneels in front of a greenhouse holding a stripey light and dark green watermelon in his left hand while supporting another stripey light and dark green watermelon on the ground with his right hand.

2 dark and light green striped watermelons on a towel alongside a banana and a knife on a towel on a gray countertop.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I love both the flavor and the looks of these fish peppers. But now I'm impatiently waiting for them to ripen 🌱

Stripey green fish peppers hanging off a plant with green and white leaves

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Our wonderful neighbor gave us a few dozen ears of corn this morning, so he's getting a few jars of corn soup tomorrow 🌱🍽️🌽

A faded red plastic shopping basket with about 3 dozen ears of fresh corn on a gray tile floor next to a rainbow rug with a white tile wall in the background.

A gloved hand stirs corn kernels and onions in a large cast iron skillet on a gas stove. The burner to left holds a large stainless steel pot simmering the cobs the kernels were cut from.

White bowl with corn soup topped with a fresh salsa made with jalapeños, onions, hot banana peppers, and scallions, on a placemat on a bamboo table.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Summertime breakfast from the backyard 🌱🍽️🌶️🥚

Onion and pepper omelette topped with sliced jalapeño next to quartered black cherry tomatoes on a brown plate on a bamboo table

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Neighbor told us to come over and pick as many pears from his tree as we could and all he asked for in return is some jam. We got 153 lbs of pears and there's probably another 150 still on the tree 😅 He also gave us 3 more cantaloupe (and 4 more overripe ones we fed to the chickens). 🌱

4 milk crates overflowing with pears in the bed of a gray pickup truck with the tailgate down. In front of the milk crates are 3 ripe cantaloupe. On the right, propped up by the front right milk crate, is a long handled tool with a basket on the end for picking fruit. To the left is a folded ladder. In the front of the bed is another milk crate about 1/3 full with mushy/yucky fruit.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Another 90 lbs before the rain (hopefully) comes tomorrow 🌱🍅

2 red plastic shopping baskets, 2 metal colanders, and 2 metal grilling baskets overflowing with yellow, red, and pink tomatoes. Sauce types, slicing types, cherry types. Some more ripe than others. The containers are on the ground in the shade in front of overgrown tomato plants in the background.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hearty bagel sandwich for brunch, everything but the bagel and shredded cheese from the backyard 🌱🍽️🍅🫑🌶️🧅🥓 #SmallFarmLife

An open bagel sandwich with shredded cheese, egg, bacon, tomato slice, sauteed onions, peppers, and garlic, topped with fresh jalapeño slices on a black plate on a bamboo table

Everything bagel sandwich cut in half with shredded cheese, egg, bacon, tomato slice, sauteed onions, peppers, and garlic, topped with fresh jalapeño slices on a black plate on a bamboo table

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We had to do a taste test of some of the varieties we harvested this morning. Black Cherry, as always, won 🌱🍽️ Clockwise from top left: Amish Paste, Beefsteak Yellow, Roma, Carolina Gold, Black Cherry, Aunt Ruby's Green Striped, Weisnicht’s Ukranian, Mystery Cherry, San Marzano, Better Boy

A plastic (sorry) cutting board with a whole bunch of varieties of sliced tomatoes - red, yellow, pink, green, roma-types, cherry types, on a gray countertop. A yellow-handled serrated knife sits on the top right of the cutting board next to a few uncut red tomatoes.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Either this or quesadillas. The kids are always happy when I don't have the energy to cook 😅

A bag of impossible "chicken" nuggets on a gas stove

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

12yo has been (im)patiently waiting for the first watermelon to ripen 🌱

A preteen with shaggy dirty blond hair, wearing a blue shirt, holds a dark and light green striped watermelon in front of an overgrown garden under a grey sky

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First figs of the season, looking forward to about a gazillion more 🌱🍽️

4 figs, each sliced in half, on a bamboo cutting board

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

100 lbs of maters from the garden this morning. Some are ready now, some need a few more days to ripen. We'll be saucing and canning soon 🍅🌱

Baskets and bowls of pink, yellow, and red tomatoes. Some paste types, some slicer types, some cherry types. They are precariously perched on a table in front of a livestock panel trellis with a single cucuzza squash ripening in front of a hedge of tomato plants.

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