Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
We came into this with no real experience. I grew up with small veggie gardens, but have never gone the 'organic' route before. The rest of this is learn as we go. Eek!
No doubt any TE member who is/was part of farming family have stories to tell and trivia us urbanites don't know. ie. pigs are intelligent animals. Pigs won't overeat if they are left on their own for days which is what happened if my partner couldn't make it to the farm on certain weekends.

And don't crowd those chickens...that's how those major animal disease epidemics start..

I'm certain if sweetie hung in longer in farming...he would have started using GPS tags on his cows to track his animals when he wasn't around for days to look after them. Probably by now, this IS being done/tested already somewhere....

You are commended for forays into sustainable living. I have a black thumb, plants don't seem to live under my tutelage. I have childhood memories of strange family gardening ...a whole garden full of koh rabi (a green beet) and corner of green onions. The only veggies our family could grow without ants munching up everything. We were so gauche....initially when my parents bought this rundown house, in the backyard, we kept chopping down this furiously fast growing head of red stalks and big leaves... What was this weed???

It was a whole patch of rhubarb. We found out ...years later.