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Walter Pierce

@wpierce.bsky.social

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I raise children and farm animals, love cooking and gardening, write code to pay the bills, & play music in my limited free time. He/Him/His. VA, USA. Banner: 5 guitars on a black couch Profile: white dude, salt & pepper beard, blue shirt, faded green hat

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi to all the new folks! My spouse and I, along with our children, live in rural Virginia where we raise goats, rabbits, & chickens (& sometimes hogs) as well as most of our own produce to provide our family with clean food while minimizing our impact on the earth. #SmallFarmLife

Black and white nubian billy goat with floppy ears standing in some hay and staring at the camera with his rectangular pupils. A retaining wall made of cinder blocks is to his left, and you can sort of see the torso of a black kiko nanny goat behind him.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 6h

So good! And of course the rendered fat adds that extra flavor when sauteing veggies, or making a quiche crust, corn bread, frying eggs, whatever.

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 7h

Hogs eat a lot of food, humans waste a lot of food, figured why not try to source as much wasted food as possible to cut feed costs and fill my freezers with delicious pork!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 7h

This mangalitsa bacon came from hogs raised primarily on free food - spent grain from a local brewery, discarded fruits & veggies from local grocery stores & farm stands, dried fruits & nuts from a wholesale distributor, peanut skins from a local plant. Waste not. 🍽️🐖🥓 #SmallFarmLife

Fatty strips of raw mangalitsa bacon on a wire rack in a rimmed baking sheet on a gray countertop

Cooked mangalitsa bacon strips just out of the oven on a wire rack in a rimmed baking sheet

Pint mason jar on a gray countertop, a small fine mesh sieve sits atop it with a paper towel filter so the bacon fat can pass through and the solids get filtered out

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 8h

Adds an extra layer of fun to torching weeds...

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 9h

It works, sort of... But I always feel like I'm about to take a trip to the emergency room whenever I hook it up to the propane 🙃

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

I have one and I hate it. Piece of shit cheapo unit I bought 8 years ago at Harbor Freight. I don't even know the brand of it.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

Great combo!

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

Yes! They're great as cut flowers too, and then after a few days you can just harvest the seeds right off the kitchen table 😅

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 10h

Once again, the bees are absolutely loving the coxcombs we planted. I love them all - the pointy ones, the flat ones, and especially the brainy looking ones🌱🐝

Crinkly, brainy looking yellow coxcomb with some pink ones and pale yellow ones nearby

I don't know what color this is. Pink? Peach? Fuchsia? It's a coxcomb with some pointy bits and a flat flower, a bumblebee is getting some good pollen from the flat flower.

Pointy coxcomb in a sea of other coxcombs with a bumblebee collecting pollen

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 16h

As soon as I walked into the barn to snap a photo of him he thought it was time for pets. So of course I had to oblige. #SmallFarmLife

A gray and black tabby cat with white socks, belly, and nose rests on a hay bale in a barn

A gray and black tabby cat with white socks, belly, and nose is getting out of his resting position to come get pets

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 16h

round and round what comes around goes around is written on a poster

Alt: Ratt performing round and round

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 22h

That one I use 2 syllables

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda want the Jays to win the World Series just so our current administration can have a hissy fit about a Canadian team beating us at our own national pastime.

Also my team has been out of it since the beginning of the season 😅

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

whomever invented Dr. Pepper keep your phone ringer on tonight

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/42wDZz0

WATCH LIVE: The winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry is...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday. Watch here at 5:30 a.m. EDT.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

I'm definitely fortunate to have multiple kids with the same person, makes things a hell of a lot easier for everyone. Glad I didn't have any or she didn't have any with exes, although we'd have found a way to make it work.

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Who knows what the US/world situation will be when mine are adults, but fortunately we've got some land out near the mountains they can build on if they choose. Some of them long for the city life though...

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

I don't mind paying a shop for what I can't do, they obviously need to pay their workers a fair wage and the overhead of rent, insurance, tools, etc. But for stuff I can do myself I'm gonna save a few hundred or thousand bucks.

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

That's one word for it. Cheapskate is another 😅

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I've got 5 kids aged 5-13 I need to hang onto hope that things will get easier 😅

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Got a plant hanging in the barn myself, need to harvest a couple more too but damn where does the time go

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Pain is definitely not worth mediocre pizza. Is anything?

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta resort to homemade pies

Veggie pizza with peppers & onions from the garden and chevre from our goats

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

She wasn't raised in NYC but pretty close in Westchester. Not quite as far out as Rome but I'm sure Rome has way better pies than what we can get even in the cities here in VA. There's a decent spot in Richmond but it's definitely not NY pizza, and almost an hour away...

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Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

They hate it when country artists sing about anything other than god, guns, lifted trucks, and chicks in cutoff denim shorts.

I've enjoyed his music on the sidelines, not a hater or a rabid fan, but always respected the hell out of him for being an independent artist carving out his own path.

Walter Pierce @wpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Man, I wish I could get good pizza where I am but bumfuck VA just doesn't have it. Hence why I make my own (plus I married a NYer who is VERY opinionated about pizza...)

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