by Levi Meeuwenberg | Jan 3, 2016 | Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technology, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube
Here’s our winter pig pen made out of old pallets. It’s about an acre of fencing enclosing a thick patch of blue spruce trees. The spruce help provide shelter from the wind and snow for the pigs, and we give them straw to insulate from the ground. They use...
by Levi Meeuwenberg | Dec 22, 2015 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technology, Climate Change, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, Podcast
Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 11, Regenerative Agriculture with Paul and Sharron May of The May Farm Episode 11, Regenerative Agriculture with Paul and Sharron May of The May Farm, ...
by Levi Meeuwenberg | Oct 28, 2015 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Foraging/Wildcrafting, Natural Resources, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, Podcast
Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 6, Woodcraft, Ecological Design, and Holistic Farm Integration with Mark Angelini Episode 6, Woodcraft, Ecological Design, and Holistic Farm Integration with Mark Angelini...
by Levi Meeuwenberg | Oct 20, 2015 | Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technology, Economics, Farm, Heating Systems, Natural Resources, Permaculture/Homesteading, Podcast
Permaculture Realized Podcast Episode 5, Commercial Scale Composting and Recycling with Andy Gale Episode 5, Commercial Scale Composting and Recycling with Andy Gale http://traffic.libsyn.com/permaculturerealizedpodcast/andygalepodcast1_mixdownB.mp3...
by Levi Meeuwenberg | Oct 9, 2015 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technology, Blog, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, YouTube
Our homestead started off with just two pigs, and we got hooked. We’re up to 13 now, and we’re even breeding our own piglets! Over the years we’ve experimented with many different types of pens, fencing and paddocks for them. By no means have we...
by Brenda NTP | Sep 25, 2015 | Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Farm, Permaculture/Homesteading, Plants, YouTube
First we created winter pig pens using pallets that were freely available at many warehouses in town. Then we fed the pigs old vegetable waste from town throughout the winter, then covered the left overs with leaves. Many squash and tomato seeds from the food waste...
