Posted in grow your own food, house and home, livestock, pigs, vegetables, tagged pigs, sowing, storm, vegetables on 9 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
We spent a lot of today wondering what we could do to avoid damage in the storm predicted for tomorrow. Not much unfortunately, as the problems mostly relate to other people. Next door’s massive overgrown leylandii… I expect more will be down and other neighbour’s worn out roof… they lose slates each time.. and this [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged pigs, sheep, vegetables on 8 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Managed to squeeze a fair bit of outdoor work in today, before the bad weather arrived. Pulled lots of nettles. as we wont spray them, and scything them only cuts them down, the only way to hope to remove them is to pull them up, by hand, roots and all. I know - don’t tell [...]
Posted in grow your own food, pigs, recipes, smallholding, tagged mother's day, pigs on 2 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
we went on our pig course today, organised through our local smallholders association. Good day.
I now know that we can definitely use some of our old intensive pig keeping set up (piggery, boar pen etc), that I like pigs, that they are not as smelly as everyone would have you believe, and they seem relatively [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 29 February 2008 | No Comments »
It’s wandered through our minds, to keep pigs. Mostly because pigs were obviously kept here, big time, in the past. Unfortunately the set up was clearly an intensive one, with concrete sties and a boar pen; small enclosures and run down. Not our way, but still perhaps some of it could be used. And keeping pigs [...]
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