The video follows a small crew in rural Tennessee as they scramble to transport five piglets despite a broken vehicle. After discovering their van can’t tow, they rent a U‑Haul box truck and a flat‑towed trailer to move the pigs. The crew captures B‑roll of the farm, interviews farmer Cliff Davis (owner of Spiral Ridge Permaculture and Pig & Leaf), and documents pig handling, electric‑pen training, and fence issues. Throughout the day they troubleshoot trailer backing, load the pigs, and later return to the host’s house to prepare pork chops using farm‑fresh meat, arugula, and butternt squash. The narrative blends logistical problem‑solving, farm husbandry insights, community collaboration, and a cooking segment, all delivered in a conversational, upbeat vlog style.
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Day 2, 6 o'clock. We're supposed to leave like right now. Went to film during like this time. It gets lighter quicker here in Tennessee. Didn't account for that. Really should be pulling up there right now. So we're going to go— I want to try to capture everything this morning given all the car problems we're gonna have. On the phone with mom, see if she's got any ideas. So I'm thinking this morning we can go and get B-roll shots, supporting shots. To go over him while he's talking, or while I'm talking. We'll go get shots of the pigs, shots of the systems, and then we were also gonna interview him.
Yeah, I see, I've looked at, I guess, where do I, how do I find that? Looking it up, it was like, you cannot tow with this vehicle. So I was just like, you know, if you can't rent a car to tow with, they don't really like when you tow. So what did we figure out, Rebecca? So I just called U-Haul and we just rented a box truck and a tow dolly.
And they'll let us?
They're letting us.
We can go pick it up? We don't have to bring our van?
Nope, and we're picking it up at 4 o'clock this afternoon, and I guess then we'll load the car on it and get it ready to go pick up Pigs tomorrow. We'll drive the box truck to go pick up Pigs.
Pigs will be in the van, windows rolled down.
Yeah, we're gonna roll the windows down and put the Pigs in the van.
This is amazing light right now as we pull up. Sun rising. Hey, you the mascot? How you doing? Aren't you supposed to be guarding somebody, huh? Good morning. How you doing? This is a beautiful morning. It is.
Seriously, dog.
Well, I'll get some shots here, and then when you do— when you go to do chores, let me know. I'll get some shots.
Yeah, yeah, no problem.
I'm trying to get B-roll shots in here and these pigs, they ain't having it. Hey Cliff, did your piglets stay in here? They did.
I switched out the charger.
Aha.
But I don't know, we might go down here and find something else.
Oh geez, I was gonna say those pigs are probably not supposed to be right there. Are those the ones that we thought stayed in? Yeah, those are them. Cliff went to get feed, we heard the side-by-side, pigs came running.
It's crazy to think that in the Appalachians there used to be pig drovers that used to drive hogs all the way down to the plantations and the cotton farms. All every year, millions of them. That might not be the place you want to go, little pig.
Piglets.
Well, maybe you do.
You gonna put them in with the big guy?
Can you hold that thing?
Yeah. Come on, piggy. Come on, follow your nose.
What are you gonna do to keep these guys in?
I don't know, just another puzzle piece. Usually all my piglets are trained at birth. Because their mama's in an electric pen and then they go and everybody gets hit. But my mentor brought these over, uh, to raise out the other day, and I felt with this item they weren't trained to electric. I just remembered too that that's their dad. Kermit's their dad.
Oh yeah, all back together.
Yeah, maybe they'll be happier.
So they got in back with dad. Yeah, the fence is hitting hard.
The fence is hitting 8,000 right now.
Good Lord.
So I don't know, they're brave or stupid. Come on, girls.
Well, this is how they hauled the pigs to the market. These pigs are going anywhere you—
well, that's what you want to do. You want to get them to where they go anywhere you go. My name's Cliff Davis. I'm from Summertown, Tennessee. I operate two businesses: Spiral Ridge Permaculture, which is an education and design business, and Pig and Leaf, which is a local farm-to-table farm. Well, I bought a clear-cut piece of land and succession started growing back so fast, all of the trees and shrubs and thorns and I was out trying to chop it down and establish food forest like they say in the books and videos, and I realized I needed some help. So I hired— I bought some help, and those were in 3 feeder pigs. And then I butchered those pigs myself, and then I kind of fell in love with the whole process. Manure? Yep. Yeah, so you just play with it with a stick, you know, and that's— so that I don't see anywhere, you know, if you— if it had worms in it The bad worms, round worms, it'd be all over it. There's a little bit of food scrap in it. Looks like things are pretty broken down pretty well. Um, if it were real hard, um, that means they're probably dehydrated or they're not getting enough water. And then if it's real runny, that means they've probably got some— so some prop— now their poop will be runnier if you feed them, um, a mash, but it has to be strategic.
Hey, get—
go on. When it comes—
hey, this one is the curious one.
Yeah, he is now.
Oh, they've run out of food again. Okay, I think we're almost done, so you're gonna get your seat.
She heard the bucket.
We could walk and talk.
So they all ran up.
Look, let's walk and talk. Oh, what'd you do? Is that pork?
I got you some goodies. So arugula, lettuce. Thank you. These were cut— these were cut by the butcher. They didn't— they didn't, um, yeah, well, get them sort of nice.
I like to cut that off and just fry it in it.
Yeah, there you go. But you can see the quality of the marbling. Yeah, that's That's why I've went through 3 different sets of hogs to find— there you go.
Thank you.
That's our gift.
Look at that. Look at that nice stamp. So if people are local, they can go to Pig and Leaf.
That's right.
And get from you.
Yep.
And then all the non-local people could maybe come and take advantage of your workshop.
That's right.
Okay, at spiralridgepermaculture.com.
That's right. Okay.
All right, well, we gotta go home tomorrow. And U-Haul is gonna help us. That's what we decided, right, Rebecca?
Yep.
I think— a U-Haul box truck with a dolly to tow our car. Is it a trailer, Rebecca, or a dolly? Because they have trailers too. This is taking forever. We've been here an hour probably.
What time is it?
We switched to a flat tow, a trailer.
We've been here like 45 minutes.
The pigs are gonna be more comfortable. A little flat and we can actually turn that trailer around.
Yeah.
First impression?
Okay, so we're going over here to the gas station.
Let's figure out what side it's on.
I don't know, what side is the gas on? Oh, it usually tells you.
Could be very well on your side.
It's on to the left side.
This is easy compared to the bus, honey.
I was like, oh, we have to do this again, but then Justin and Ashley reminded me that this is gonna be easy. That, my friends, was a dream ride.
It's like driving a sports car. A sports car compared to driving a 40-foot school bus with a van that you couldn't back up. If you need this with this flat tow trailer, you can, you can actually reverse. So what we're going to do is hopefully our van starts, back it up, pull the system in, load the van, be pointed in that direction for an early departure tomorrow morning. I'm going to turn it around. Okay, back way up to that trailer.
Oh shoot, what? It's dead. Shoot.
Wait, no, come here. What? Dead.
I was turning over though. Okay, do it again. Okay, turn the thing cuz I want to see what this— this is saying something. Okay, D3.
Oh, there we go.
I don't know what it was, but it wasn't turning over. That was weird.
Yeah, it's acting real weird. Just gotta remember to breathe because this is crazy.
I'm not used to mirror backing. That was a challenge. Let's get it on this thing.
That way, that way, that way.
There you go. Come on. Hey, come check out this back.
You can't get out.
This back tire is not on good.
No, it's not good.
You got to somehow back up a tiny bit and go a little bit Straight on it, straight on it.
Hey, Decker, be a dog.
Decker, you're a little tight on this side.
Now straight, now straighten yourself up. Come straight forward. No, no, just come all the way forward. Yeah, I know, we're just going to see if we can get it up. Ashley and I walked away for a little bit and they got it all figured out.
How do you make it go the other way?
Oh, Lord have mercy. Put it inside. Go inside, Justin.
Oh, I thought you were going out the window.
Go inside.
Oh, y'all.
Well, we got insurance on the trailer.
You get enough dudes— oh, look, see, it's got a little something right there. We probably could have, uh, taken that off.
Oh, I wonder if it does this. It does this right here.
That's how you get out.
If you give the two dudes enough time, we would have figured it out.
We are back at Ashley and Decker's, our host. You guys see this? See what we got from Cliff? A little bit of fat on that. Ashley, what are you gonna make with this?
You're gonna pan fry these pork chops in the cast iron and then finish them off in the oven. We're gonna do some butternut squash and also some salad from Cliff.
Okay, nice.
Yeah, first we're gonna render that. So that is gonna go in the pan to render some lard to fry them in.
