Sunday, March 17, 2013

Turning Grass into Bacon - A Work in Progress

Step one - Find a little piece of land that is very green, to call your own.





Step two - Procure Goats that will happily eat your grass




'Sup?

Step three - Milk Goats 




Step four - Share your goat milk (upcycled grass) and bakery outlet bounty (wheat = grass) with your three little piggies.




What $20 will get you at the bakery outlet.


Three little pigs, Baykin, Porkchop (Choppy) and Prosciutto (Shootie)


With a lot of nutritious slops, some hiney scratchin' and a few months time, these little 30 pound "weaners" will end up as 250 pound "finishers". At which point I'll be switching their diet from primarily protein-intensive goat milk, bread and kitchen scraps to a diet that is comprised mainly of windfall and foraged apples and pears. At least, that's the game plan as it stands now.

By the time the girls head back to school in the Fall, the verdict should be in on whether or not all of this pig wranglin' and raisin' was worth the trouble. Stay tuned... 

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