The Shush Sisters have been working hard at spreading the new soil around their front yard. What I do is – each day I sprinkle some corn about the earth and then they push the soil around as they hoover. After that they lie on the hills, which looks amusing but impossible to get a shot of as they are actually laying in wait for me.
Later in the autumn I will get the tractor and level it out properly but in the mean time they are having heaps of fun doing the dirty work. During the autumn I will add everything I pull out of the barn, the pigs will mix it up, adding manure of their own and then this little field will be tilled in the early spring and resown. Each spring I will resow a field, so the pigs will actually move to a new field each year as part of this process. 
Though really they are just biding their time until the big fenced vegetable garden is finished then the real fun will begin.
This whole area has gravel about three inches underneath that scrappy grass. In the old days they parked all their machines out here and so the grazing is more opportunist than anything. 
Queenie says good morning. 
Son of Neanderthol Man, who has been busy inspecting all the mulch we were given by the tree men down the road, says good morning too.
Good morning from me and the purse camera.
It rained in the night, only a little but it was nice and the rain has brought some cooler air with it. I hope that is not the end of our summer weather. I am not ready for autumn yet.
This is a short post so that you still have time to see what the bees were doing a year ago. If you have not seen Sugar Water for Bees do pop over. Because this is what I will be doing again today.
Have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
45 responses to “Pigs Posing as Construction Crew”
Last years bee post still one of my favourites! Love Queenies cute woolly face …. could Charlotte come over to help spread compost in my yard please? Laura
Queenie is wooly isn’t she. in fact in think she is getting her winter coat, yesterday she was a hot little cow.. Charlotte said she would be there in a tick, just revving up the time machine! c
I was almost expecting the piggies to have little hard hats on as they worked 🙂 t
They honestly look like they should be wearing hard hats too.. morning miss t.. c
I knew those Shush sisters were more than pretty faces!
Only a mother could love that face after they have been working in the dirt all day!! c
Thanks for the explanation of the porcine labourers. Brilliant economy of energy. Have a lovely day.
What a work force!
A wonderful cycle on the farmy Celi, with the piggies and chooks scrabbling about in the muck and mulch – they say where there’s muck there’s brass……
Good morning! Hello to Queenie and TonTon!
Those girls are so big! I have often thought of pigs as being ideal small work animals.
You know how I love the sugar water post. I haven’t forgotten the poems but all things – human and electronic – need to line up. Sorry it’s taking so long.
Letting the pigs do the work. Very smart, C.
Love the Sisters at work. You are so knowledgeable. I’m wondering how you came to know things like how to set those pigs to work spreading soil, and the cheese-making and the milking and . . . so many things to learn! Seriously, I’d love to know more about your learning process. Did you grow up on a farm? Are you learning as you go? Maybe you’ve already covered your learning curve in posts that ran before I “discovered” you back in the spring. If so, I’d like to read them!
Maybe I need to get some pigs. My yard is layers of gravel–4 different kinds–and landscape fabric between the layers. With some dirt on top. Hauling dirt, composting, and after 3 years there is some progress.
Oh my, you have been working hard, but it is great to see a pay off, you can have some of my gravel though! if only i could train the pigs to pick up the stones and put them into a bucket, hmm i may work on that!! c
Morning – nature is so much cleverer than us!
The pigs will want extra milk for all that work 😉
Those little piggies work hard for their little niblets, don’t they? I do hope you have warmer days to follow.. it has been a wonderful fall, just cool in the morning and then we strip off clothes as the day goes on.. right up until we end in our jammies at night!
it was freezing this morning, i had to wear my clown suit! tho i am also starting to shed as it is warming up.. phew.. c
Oh no… come back summer!!!
How the piggies have grown! I love their curly little tails. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen pigs look happier.