Interconnected
[ɪntəkəˈnɛkt'd] adjective
1. united, joined, or linked.
2. having a connection.
3. joined together in sequence; linked coherently: connected ideas.
With a good period of dry weather I have finally been able to get a wheelbarrow through the pig pens and get them cleaned out. This is never my favourite job - it's physically hard, it's a bit smelly (not as bad as you would think though) and it's rather boring. So as I pushed barrow load after barrow load of pig poo out of the pens my mind, as ever, started wandering and I got to thinking about how interconnected our life here at Eco-Gites of Lenault is.
Le me explain. Pigs poo and pig poo has to be cleared out. Where does it go? It goes onto the vegetable patch to fertilise the earth that grows the vegetables. We eat the vegetables but any peelings or vegetables that are going over are fed to the pigs. It's the same with the grass. We have grass areas where the boys and our guests' children play. We mow the grass and the cuttings get fed to the pigs. In the fullness of time we will be eating roast pork from a pig fed at least partly on the grass that is growing in our play areas together with vegetables fertilised by the manure from the pigs.
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| Piles of Pig Poo aka Garden Fertiliser |
It is all Interconnected.
* NOTE - If you are planning a similar operation just one word of note. You may not want to put your vegetable UPHILL from you pig pens ... but at least pushing all that poo uphill keeps me fit!
This is how life should be - all made up of cycles. If you look at nature it always works in cycles so to live differently is unhealthy. Going to the supermarket and buying packaged food and filling up landfills is destructive. I wish I could have a bit of land so I could have pigs too! #WotW
ReplyDeleteThank you - I do love my pigs EVEN when I do have to clean them out!
DeleteI do love thinking in this way, and that connection and self-sufficiency must feel great. Though I did laugh at your note at the end there! Thanks for sharing with #WotW x
ReplyDeleteWe are not as self sufficient as we would like to be but we are getting there.
DeleteThat sounds like hard work!! But yes, this is the second WotW I've read which advocates sourcing your own food which makes sense if you've the time, space and inclination! #WotW
ReplyDeleteI am lucky to have all three of those!
DeleteUtterly amazing Rosie! I am in awe of how you live your life. I look forward to your roast pork recipe in a future post ;-) #WotW
ReplyDeleteNot sure about that! As for my roast pork I tend to just roast until done as simply as possibly because the taste of our own reared pigs is just so delicious it doesn't need any embellishment!
DeleteLovely to read how you recycle everything on the farm too
ReplyDeleteWe do try!
DeleteThat does sound like hard work but very worthwhile x
ReplyDeleteAnd cheaper than gym membership!
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