(Capt. Karl) What are you eating there little pig?
(Pig) ACORNS, crunch wow here are some pretty ones, my favorite food.
(Capt. Karl) what about all that grass? (Pig) That's my next favorite food!!
(Capt. Karl) You mean you don't get anything other
than Acorns and grass to eat? (Pig) Yep, that's what i want!
(Capt. Karl)
A few acorns and a little grass, huh. i wish you'd eat that dove weed.
i think it looks like we are under trees right now, let's see
these are the branches that are growing over the house,
I cut these off every year about this time out of these oak trees big red oaks that we've got here.
and you can see that these oak's acorns - they're pretty doggone virile; growing in my gutters every
year. The branches grow back over to the roof top of the house. So i keep it pruned back or try to;
and we've got many of these. Now then, if you'd like i'll take you over to the oak tree nursery
and we can look at our little baby oaks that we
have coming up and we'll continue to plant throughout the place.
Well we're on approach to a little nursery here
these are pin oaks that i collected the acorns out in uh Lake Palestine.
a couple of oak trees that were growing on the sidewalk in front of
the old high school down there,
brought him back and had Elizabeth lay them out here and had we had a very strong
germination rate.
We'll dig these up this winter and plant them out in the pastures the idea being is
that they will grow up and give us uh food for the pigs for the cows for the ducks which uh
frequent that out there. Maybe you can see the cows out there in the far south pasture now.
And they've got oak trees over here on the east side all of that forest that they cruise through
and i think that's part of what makes our beef and pork naturally tasty naturally flavorful.
Well let's see here what else? I want, i guess we'll go look at some more of those pigs
coming back through the orchard uh you can see our persimmons over there
and figs and peaches - they're all played out now this is October and uh the grass is thick
as can be and we have the pigs come in here - we rotate them. This particular hog is a very
wonderful hog and that it just absolutely loves grass. Now, we've raised Red Wattles, Large
Blacks Berkshires, Poland China's and we've not had anyone of them to compare with these as far as
what we like - and that's a grass-based
beef and pork. We always had to supplemental feed the other pigs but not this breed they just simply
eat this grass as their main diet. They are a
lard hog that is to say they have a lot of fat and it comes by eating the grass.
well let's go see if we can see if anybody else will talk to us
she's got a bunch of babies in here maybe they'll come running out
we rotate the pastures with this very easy to move
hog netting is good for containment as well as for keeping unwanted predators at bay
we're in the paddock now over in the north field we can see
our sheep again grazing on grass and there's buttermilk in there
nancy's cart pony and she's got a little uh cow pony too she's a palomino
welsh pony
and over there's a comp column these are bees in the
perfect and red angus cows in there are
mid-sized frame and miniatures as well as uh the dairy cows they all run together
and here's our pigs in the paddock here eating grass
and uh there's the mama over there she had the first litter look at all that milk she's got
piggy piggy piggy piggy that looks like a bunch of little legs underneath this one but no it's
not it's just her belly dragging the ground and there's our muscovy ducks boy are you
talking about a good tasting duck that is not fat but all meat that's our muscovy duck crop
and this is probably uh a fifth of them we've got about a hundred
on the place as we go see if we can find us oh there they are right there in their nest
size 8 shoes what they are hey are y'all going to get up this morning
you're going to get up you're worse than my grandchildren just laying around all morning long
before they shoot around this place one of the things i like about these little things
be they mama or boar is they don't run off and they don't tear things up
in fact the ducks are a bigger noose's nuisance than the hogs are
now you're gonna talk for a little while now and they're friendly as they can be whoops
come on well about what's going on around here this morning Saturday. I've got to
go get some firewood up looking forward to another wonderful sunny day on Falster Farm.