Pigging out in a food forest
Sepp Holzer raises cattle,
bison, yaks, water buffalo, ducks, and chickens on his farm, but his centerpiece
animal is clearly
the pig. His swine are nearly self-sufficent, and also help out
by eating spoiled fruit in the orchard, increasing plant diversity by
creating small patches of bare ground, and regulating the snail
population. Holzer scatters feed on the ground when he wants the
soil loosened, and his pigs till that specific patch of earth.
And, of course, they provide meat.
Holzer's pigs (and other
livestock) live in rotational paddocks that encompass his entire
farm. So the pigs move through the vegetable garden when it's
fallow, through the orchard to clean up windfalls, and
through the green
manure areas busy
improving the soil.
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