Starving off the Land

Back in the spring, we thought about getting a pig. Two pigs, actually. Cape Feed and Supply, our local farm store, had a half-dozen piglets living in a little pig house next to their parking lot, eighty bucks each. We were this close. The deciding issue was fencing. Pigs are very smart. In the five [...]

If you were to make a list of all-time worst impulse buys, piglets would be right up there. Over the last six months or so, Kevin and I have talked, in a sober and responsible manner, about the possibility of raising a couple of pigs. Invariably, we focus on the two big difficulties. The first [...]