a july garden and the new composting system

This garden (our community garden shared with our neighbors), as expected, is now bursting at its seams.  Two weeks gone by without weeding and it is a jungle, corn is standing tall, and zucchini is most definitely coming out of our ears.  Our other garden is filled with ripening fruit...eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, beets and oh so much more.  These days are good days.

 

garden stir fry night!

And with the over abundance of extra produce we were happy to welcome our two newest farm girls.  They are a barnyard mix...duroc mixed with something or other and are happily easing into their new life as composting machines.  A third young man will join the ladies next week (he was a little late getting the old snippity snip treatment).

our new compost.

Our pigs are, as you likely expect, not pets...oh no...not long term pets that is.  They are hard at work packing on the pounds and destined to nourish our bodies over the winter.  In the mean time they will be loved and once they let us (if they let us) get close enough for a back scratch, they will get plenty.  Last year eating chicken all the time got pretty old.  So here we are raising three pigs... a pig for our family, a pig for my parents and a pig for the neighbors (the neighbors of course are doing equal work in keeping these ladies happy!).  Wish us luck!