Clik here to view.
Daily Farm Chores
I love morning chores around The Wallow. They get me up and moving. I love having animals to care for, because they constantly pull me towards motion and life, both when I can most enjoy it and when I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do We Feed Our Animals Crap?
{Note: As a result of last week’s popular 21 Things To Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People I got a lot of new followers. ::waves:: Hi! While I write about fat acceptance often, I also write about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pigs Are Hairy Animals
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think of pigs as being hairy. Then again, I don’t think of humans as hairy, either. I know that we have hair. But, we aren’t like cats, dogs, bears, sheep, etc....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wrapping Up The Pigs for 2012
Normally our pig-raising for the year would be over in September, but this year we opted to do another round of pigs going into the winter. They had a great gain rate, and here we are at the end of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Much Manure Does A Pig Make
By Joshua Bardwell – originally posted in September 2009 at Jack-Booted Liberal. In my previous post on composting pig manure, I discussed the type of composting system Issa and I plan to use. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Checking In With Some Laid-Back Pigs
Here at The Wallow we started the new year off right by adding three little piggies to our little farm. I brought them home on January 1st. They huddled in the back of the truck on their way to their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Much Does It Cost to Raise A Pig?
When you’re starting out with livestock it can be hard to judge what your costs are going to be. If you’re getting started with pigs, let me walk you through your expected cost to raise a pig. We’ll...
View ArticleClik here to view.
{Guest Post} Farm Chores on a Small Homestead
This is a reprint so I have a record of what farm chores at The Wallow were like in April 2011 when Joshua wrote this. I also have a post of what my chores were like in October 2012. Chores at The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pig Video Break
Take a pig video break with me! Usually when I go out to feed the pigs they jump up and run around like they are starving. They are so eager to get their next meal! For this pig video, they were too...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Getting Started Raising A Pig
So you’ve decided to raise a pig! You can do it! Just five years ago I made the same choice. I was a suburbanite, but that didn’t stop me from moving to the country and buying some pigs! I learned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Natural Living”? Yes. And no.
When I first started LoveLiveGrow I posted mainly about my homesteading, simple life efforts. I didn’t have a garden or livestock yet, but I wrote about using bathroom cloth, reusable shopping bags,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Learn How to Raise a Pig
You can learn how to raise a pig! I did it, and you can do it. In 2009 my partner and I moved from the suburbs of Atlanta to rural Tennessee. We put in a little garden and got a few chickens, but one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Homesteading Gifts – Beautiful Books for Your Homesteader
Homesteading gifts? Christmas is right around the corner, and you need the right gift for the homesteader in your life. I’ve found a collection of lovely illustrated books from author Celia Lewis. All...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening Now
I lost two goats yesterday. They were new enough to me that they didn’t even have names yet. I thought I had them penned securely, but I was wrong. Fortunately, a neighbor found one of them and...
View Article
