Pear orchard - with peas and barley

Here is the pear orchard, planted in peas and barley. This forage will be first on the menu, supplemented by grain from our new silo.

When the pears ripen the pigs put their little hooves on the trunks of the trees and rattle the branches with their snouts to drop the fruit.

Later in the season the oaks that border the orchard drop acorns that the pigs will choose over anything else. Friends and neighbors collect these for us on their own properties, knowing that the pigs are nuts for them.