On a beautiful fall day, my friend Annie enjoyed the first day of her vacation by visiting and saying hi to the pigs. She has a gentle spirit and the piggies loved hanging out with her, as you can see. And a big milestone – Baby Market has let me scratch his back in the…

Four boars against one sow. Didn’t seem fair, and after netting only one piglet from Momma’s last farrow, I decided to look for another female and found the perfect one: Princess! A gilt who’s just a year old. She’s mostly kune kune, so similar size and age to my bunch, and when I read that…

I visited Jenn’s farm today and we picked up enough windfall apples to fill several boxes. By the time I got home, the cab of my ranch truck smelled unusually fragrant, in an unusually good way. The pigs got a box this evening, and they thank you, Jenn!  

My pigs don’t know it, but they love Carrie now. She harvested one of her pear trees and gave me a box of fruit that she didn’t consider fit for humans. The fruit wasn’t quite ripe yet, but the pigs didn’t care a bit. Yes, I have a lot of posts, videos, and photos of…

Carrie dropped off some green apples that fell from her tree early, and I threw them out to the piggies, who were duly appreciative. Trouble was, I realized that there are a lot of oak galls in that particular spot – the round white shapes in the video that are about the same size as…