It's been so long!

Well, a lot has been happening at Sweet Pig Farm, but our laptop was out of commission. Our hard drive got burned up. We finally replaced it! I tried to post a few things from my smartphone, but I was not able to load pictures (which was very frustrating).

The orchard is completely planted. We have lost a couple of the paw paw trees, but most of the others seem to be doing pretty well. We're still waiting for the granny smith trees to come to life. I have some hope left, because the pecan trees just woke up a few weeks ago. We shall see.

We've got the garden pretty much completely planted. It seem there is always more to ad, and Alex still has some peppers that were started inside that need to be planted.

We also planted a mini garden in 3 big wood boxes that Alex got. Its small enough to fence in, so the animals don't bother it. It's really coming along!

There are peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers in these boxes.

The grape vines have really taken off this spring too. We've added a second row to them, and still have some room for more rows (maybe next year and the year after).

The blueberries are coming in nicely. There is some sort of bug that keeps getting them, but they are managing to produce berries!

We have a pregnant feeder pig. She's getting bigger and bigger. I'm not sure when she got pregnant. We took her boyfriend to the butcher a few weeks ago. It is really tasty meat. Yes, we love our pet pigs, but we still love to eat pork. We were raising these 2 pink pigs for that purpose. If this female is a good mother, we will probably keep her and breed her with the male red wattle hog that we brought home in the fall.

She's getting there.

We also bought a shorter electric net fence for the mini pigs. We talked about building a permanent fence around the field behind the barn for them, but this was much more cost effective. They've really been enjoying access to the grass.

 Perry and Drake are always talking!

Perry and Big D did really well with it. Pinky and Drake took a little time to get used to it. Poor things go running across the field when they get shocked. Today is Perry and Big D's day to get the field; tomorrow will be Pinky and Drake's day.

We sold all of our mini piglets! These two little cuties went to their new home last night. I'm glad they both went together. They're lucky little piggies.

They were both little boys. We called the one on the right "Freckles" because of the spots on his nose.