He couldn’t Believe this tiny PIG PEN Didn't Stink

Back on the farm where this family is— well, we're actually now growing most of our own food. Well, you guys get to go along on the binge on that adventure. Today it's just breaking back into the farm, hopefully getting some work done on the pig port, some changes inspired by Joel Salatin himself. Hopefully we can get to that. Right now, a ton of skim, might as well take it down, and food scraps for the pigs. Good morning, Ken. Hey, good morning. How are you? Good, how are you? Good. Happy Father's Day. Thanks. Oh, that's right, everyone, this is Ken Randall, Island Homesteader. Hey, all the way from the other side of North Carolina. Yeah, good friend now, here to visit, here to do— you want to do some chores? Yeah, we're gonna do chores. Okay, okay, good. Let's do it. Jonah is going to fix the Chickshaw. We got to fix the other Chickshaw too. The doors have come loose. I'm going to feed the pigs. I don't know if you want to see that, Ken. I'm trying to convince Ken— I'm trying to convince everybody, Ken, you got a small plot. He has a very small plot in the Outer Banks. It's a hard place to garden. He's building the mulched area, putting down a weed barrier with the cardboard so that he can have his potted garden area. Look at these potatoes, y'all. They're jamming. I don't see why you couldn't do this and rocky compacted soil. So I don't see why you couldn't do a pig port and then build up your soil with that. Yeah, this would fit in my backyard. I'd have to convince the wife. Would anybody complain? Uh, that I don't know, other than your wife. How deep do you reckon it'll get in here? I plan on getting it to This deep, so 3 feet. Pretend the ridge is every 3 feet. It could go 4 feet. Did you fix your Chickshaw? Yeah. Woo! It looks much better. They've still got a bit of charcoal left. It looks like they nibbled on my log. Did they nibble on your log? Yeah, they've been messing around with his log. More charcoal there. They've been moving this branch all about. Oh, the manure. How'd they do on that? I'd say they probably ate See, 50, 60% of it. Ken, if you want, just take a few of those bottom— well, all those bottom pieces off. We've been every night covering this up. Look at all the moisture we've caught on that. That's better than nothing. I'm going to keep our chips dry. But today, Ken, I was hoping if we get done enough time with our chores, we're gonna actually rip this, this part out. You don't want to run pigs on the same ground after 12 days. Without an 80-day rest, right? That— and if you can't do that, you do deep bedding. But I'm trying to keep this to a 240-square-foot. What if somebody has really a small amount of space, right? And, and wood chips, it's, it's good to cover them. That's better than nothing, but they still get moist. Watch, watch. I bet you when we pull this up, they're gonna have— we're gonna have moisture at the top. That's what I've learned from Joel. So I'm thinking I'm gonna put my wood chips storage in here. And the other thing is, this is labor-intensive. Every morning I open it up, and every evening I put it up. And what if somebody had to go to work and it was going to rain at 1 PM? You know, look, look, it's wet, isn't it? Joel knows his stuff, man. I'm thinking we Yesterday we decided we have plenty of carbon. We added a little bit of more nitrogen, some greens from right there and hay. I don't think we need to add any material. Let it catch up a little bit. Does it smell? Not at all. That's what I was just thinking. I'm like, there was— nobody would even know in the neighborhood that you have pigs. Do you see a crazy amount of flies? No, I don't see any flies. Yay! Thank you. Our bolted Swiss chard. I got your screw gun. Do you have a screw for me for fixing the icy, or have you done the sea monsters? Wait, how many do I gotta put on there? Uh, a few. Okay, I'm prepared. A few. I forgot to feed him. It's amazing, gone 3 days, how out of touch you get. Jonah, which one's which? Ken, we're gonna move these guys from right here just right next door. It's gonna be a pretty easy move. We did it, we got it over. We still got 10 minutes till 8. If we get done around— and we only got to do the forested pigs, but that'd leave us about an hour to work on this. Uh, pig port, that might be enough. Madison, look, the chickens have really liked being under this walnut tree. Look, they didn't scratch these though, which tells me we're too far behind. We're too far behind the cows, meaning the fly larva has developed and flown off. So that paddock they were in for 3 days. Yep, we're, we're at 4 days. Wow. Amazing, the difference just off one day, Ken. And flies are gone, already gone. Jenna gave me 87 screws, but better safe than sorry, right? That's right. We need 3. We got them out and about, and we have a cat on a post. You can hear them. They hear us. They hear us long before we hear them. Looking good. What I want here, Ken, stand it right there. See what they've done under those trees? Yeah, that's what I want everywhere. So really, I gave them too big of a paddock. I should have given them half this paddock, maybe a quarter. So for now, I'm just going to spread it around in here to encourage them to underbrush. Yay! Look at that, Ken. That's plenty of water. Plenty of full water. It's not leaking. They're not making a wallow there. We got a little bit of time. I'm coming after you. I'm coming after you, Pigport. This is what we're gonna do, ladies and gentlemen. We want to keep— we're going to get rid of this outdoor run here. We want to keep it intact as much as we can. Well, really, we're just cutting the zip ties, removing the T-posts. The only one we have to maybe be mindful of is this wall, but I think— I'm pretty sure this is nailed into that. So don't unscrew the nail, don't, don't undo the nails or anything in case we just want— in case this is a bad idea and we want to put this back. All right, you want to tackle this? Yeah. So it's nailed in here, so just break the zip ties. The tricky part is going to be is getting our screw gun in there and getting that out. I guess let's do that first while it's steady. We gotta pitchfork our wood chips into here. Boom! One big pile of mulch, probably 4 cubic yards, undercover in 30 minutes. Where's Phyllis, guys? Okay, I'm trying to get Phyllis But in the process, Stud's walking on and pushing her forward. Usually she kind of sneaks by him. Phyllis, please do not go all the way to the end of this pasture. I think we're about to go on a 400-yard detour here. Come on, get around her, get around her. Come on, get around her. He's just running her. We're gonna have to herd them all the way out to the pasture. So I'm gonna basically have to get him out, go now, and herd her back in. Now I have to go way back. There's where we're going, way out there to that house. She was way up there. Good morning, Miss Thing. How you been? How you been? We got Alfalfa out here just to give some Stud muffin a good day. Oh yeah, give stud muffin a good day. He's a father now. He's a father by you. You, you make it possible for him to be a father. Go ahead, Madison, give her a pet. That's, that's your duty, obtain that cow. There you go, Rebecca. How you feeling this morning? I'm feeling tired. I know, right? There's something about traveling, really wear you out. Oh look though, Ken, you guys got to see this. Ken brought us these onions from Casey Ostwich. She went there first. Can you believe that? Look at that onion! It's one of the best gardeners in America, that Casey Ostwich. So thank you, Casey, for that wonderful gift. She ain't moving. Say, I'm not moving without my calf. All right, now will you go? Come on, come on. Yes, see, now she'll go. Oh no, no, don't go out that way. You gonna try it, Ken? I am. So how was it, Ken? It was good. We're done milking. Jonah, you moved the Sea Monsters all by yourself. I didn't even have to ask you. No, that was crazy. Thank you. Took me an hour and a half though. So yeah, you ran into some problems. So he did want to show me something out here. At this, uh, cow pasture. Oh my gosh, you are not kidding me! Oh my word, do a little jig, buddy! 7 years in the making, we've got a peach. It's not ready yet, let it orange up a little bit. You're gonna get a dozen, 3 dozen peaches. This tree has been completely neglected until just very recently. We put a fence around it from the cows getting here. Okay, they got me something for Father's Day. Yes, we already gave you the camera. Yeah, you gave me the camera. Gideon gave it to you. Okay, I'll open Lily's first. Youngest to oldest. Be careful, really careful. Okay, I need to be careful. I can tell it's fragile. Happy Papa's Day. Aww. Oh! Put the camera down. Thank you, Lily. You want to come give me a hug? Thank you. A jump hug. Yay, look! That's fun. So this makes it a coffee mug, huh? Mm-hmm. It's a Papa. Neat. Papa. A bear too, I like it. Papa Bear. Good broth, good mug.