“Spring has been an especially hectic time in the already busy lives of Jon and Robin McConaughy. In addition to preparing for the birthing of lambs, pigs and calves, they opened the doors to Brick Farm Market. And while the gestation period for a cow is nine months, and a pig roughly half that, it took a full two years to give birth…”
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