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Pig attempt # 1

3/8/2013

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So it has taken a year of thinking about pigs to finally get down to business for me.  There had to be a job for the pigs to do before incorporating them into the scheme of things here at Ironwood.  This job has been waiting to be filled and has taken some time for me to get around to interviewing the applicants.  There are 4 acres of open field suffering years of neglect after having been farmed by conventional methods.  We tried having a farmer till it, and he broke his tiller on the many rocks hiding within.  So it sat for another year until my reading brought me to pigs.  Then yet another year for me to warm up to the idea of raising pigs.  Pigs are large animals, omnivorous creatures that would eat you if you happened to become helpless in their pen.  Yea took a minute or two to get over that one.  Ahhh but now I am fearless in the face of piglets and after watching some farmer friends survive pig propagation I am ready to go.  Got myself a charger for fencing, solar powered, electric sheep netting, hog nipple waterers and now just need shelter and some pigs....

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    Eva Taylor

      Born in New Hampshire and raised in Maine, Eva's passion for living self sustainably began with Helen and Scott Nearing.  Both were homesteaders who carved their lives from the land.  Eva now lives in Eastern West Virginia, with her husband Dain and daughter Shayna, carving out her own life.

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