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
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45 responses to “Pigs Posing as Construction Crew”
How helpful are they?! haha I adore that picture of Queenie and her curly head.
I love the way you said the piggies were “hoovering” around! 🙂 Since reading posts from around the world that term has begun to sneak into my own vocabulary. Now I need to think about it in terms of the animals. That’s what Darwin our tortoise does! My eyes lit up at first sight of that gorgeous mulch. I can see all the makings for the next phase of your garden and although I am sure you’re not quite ready for fall, and I’m not either, even here in our current heat, if you look at the trees and the slant of the sun, you can see it coming! Hugs for a great day with the bees, Celi!
Good morning to you all. Have a happy farmy day.
🙂 Mandy xo
Love the pigs!
Love this blog… don’t have much time to say more…
It’s amazing how the farm evolves through the seasons and that the animals just don’t “live” there, they contribute as well!!
The cooler weather says fall here and the angle of the light and its rosy-golden cast in the last hours of the day. I’m ready — time to make soups and bake bread and have yet another excuse to cuddle up.
cuddles!!! c
Plenty. We are now an official couple in the community.
Bloody awesome!!! c
Sugar water for bees was when I first discovered you!
That is fantastic.. c
Very smart and very wise…pig tractors!!! You are like us….spring work in the fall, makes all the difference after winter! I’m a summer lover myself.
There all seasons mentions in one comment!
Linda 🙂
Hi Celi,
I spent some time on someone else’s farmy over the weekend. You might want to pop over and read about it.
I tried but once again it will not let me in.. I will try again later on.. it looks like my kind of post! c
What useful piggies they are as well as being cute
Now I know how the pigs do it – the spreading. And your earlier bees post is pure magic! thank you for pointing me to it. You have such a marvellous way of building suspense. You are a great story-teller.
Clever use of the corn to keep the pigs interested in their work. Maybe if you spread a little corn on the tractor seat you could have them do the leveling later this Fall. Then again, pigs behind the wheel may not be such a good idea. What about TonTon?
TonTon on the tractor.. hmm.. the mind boggles.. c
It’s great that everyone pulls their weight in keeping the farmy going, whether their intention is sustainability or or just plain fun!
There is nothing quite like a pig. Gotta love that curlicue of a tail. Queenie does look wooly. I like that about her. Good shot of the rooster. He’s handsome.