The warm weather of the past couple of weeks has had the pigs looking for mud baths to cool down. And don't they love rubbing against you when they've just had a bath.It might be hot, but it's good growing weather for our Wessex Saddlebacks.
And some of the babies are growing so much they're not so interested in mum's milk and are sneaking off to find the big bags of grain. Sprung.
Some, however, are quite happy hanging around with Mum and using her to get a bit of shade.
The ducks are spending a lot of time swimming and diving. These are our youngest ones who were hatched in the incubator. We can't quite tell yet if they're boys or girls.
There's also lots happening in the vegetable garden. I made a silverbeet pie from my first bunch of this coloured heirloom variety. It's so good cooking with my own veggies again.
There are also lots of tiny seeds poking through my no-dig garden bed. I became thoroughly sick of digging up the lawn to plant my onions and garlic, so I'm experimenting with layering cardboard, bedding from the pigs, ducks, chooks, guinea pigs and rabbit, grass clippings, compost and sheep manure right on top of the grass. I've then put a thin layer of mushroom compost where I'm sowing seeds to make a nice moist bed for them to germinate. Seeds of rocket, radish, carrots, beetroot and spring onions are so far coming up well.
Just a tip though, if you try this method, remind other family members to keep the veggie garden gate shut. He and the chooks are only slowly coming out of the badbooks after I found mulch and seeds on the wrong part of the lawn.
But things are recovering.
