Oh those pigs. They have been the source of much entertainment lately. After digging up the remainder of our potatoes we had a path to let the pigs enter the big back garden. And oh my, they are enjoying their new terrain. They have been romping back and forth, tearing down the (small) corn field and have practically turned over all the squash and tomatoes (the pumpkins/butternut squash and watermelon are still safely on the other side of the electric fence). They are the perfect pasture rotatilling machines....and they just look like they are having fun while they do it. I love that our pigs always have a dirty snout from digging up earth, that they have space to run like fools, and that they have each other to scratch up against and to lay beside under the cool evening sky. This is how an animal should be raised...with gratitude and respect. And that is what I have for them, a lot of gratitude and respect. Like those potatoes that will be stored in our neighbors cool basement and those shelves of canned tomatoes, beets, carrots and beans...there will be pork in our freezer (along with many many chickens). And when you can't even pretend to be able to afford quality humanely raised meat products at your local grocer..this is a very good thing.
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