"We started growing organic potatoes and then we couldn’t get rid of them after harvest – you’d always leave behind small, broken, half-rotten potatoes. They’re a self-regenerating tuber so they just sprout and grow more. You’d have to poison the tuber to kill it. Instead, we thought we’d get some pigs, put them in the paddock, because they dig up the potatoes. They did such a good job. A pig just eats potatoes for a while, then sleeps for 10 hours, then eats more potatoes, then goes back to sleep!" -Matt Simmons (featured in the previous post), a farmer raising free range pigs an hour north of Sydney, Australia 🐷 #rootsandco #hawkesbury #australia @melandapark
Matt Simmons | Pig Farmer | New South Wales, Australia
