I love deer meat. Our SIL cooked some when we were over at their house in Basil for a bbq. Feels good for someone else to do the bbq'ing for a change.
I would love to have a freezer full of pork. I'd think about buying one to slaughter but I can't get over that pig sty smell. My inlaws used to give us some after they butchered one of their hogs.
Up thread I read where beans, fried potatoes and cornbread were served at meal time. That made me think of my inlaws. Not once did we eat there and that was not on their table. Of course they drowned their fried potatoes in syrup, hubby still does, along with his eggs.
I was raised on beans and cornbread, so even today, I get hungry for them.
I felt sorry for my poor beginning, then discovered that what we had been fed had the vitamins and acids that we needed.
Something about the Mexican diet being balanced, corn, beans and rice.
At one time the hot peppers were used for medicine, and they are high in vitamin C.
There was some research done in the 1960’s, and the results showed less stomach cancer, in the countries that hate a lot of hot peppers.
We did not have hot peppers, but there was a can of cayenne/red pepper sitting on the table, always.
Even now, I drop a hot pepper in my soups and beans, it is the difference in good and just ok.
If you don’t have a lot of pigs and a lazy pen keeper, the pigs should not stink...
If you give them a large enough pen, they will choose a corner of it for the bathroom use and unless you give them a contained source of water for bathing, they are quiet clean.
I had one for a pet, there is even a photo around of us playin with the water hose and he was clean.
Of course, in Wellton, it was hot and dry and there was no hog waller.
There some experiments done with hogs, to reclaim land, it has been too many years since I read the article, but they put the hogs in a sectioned area, the hogs rooted and tore up the soil, eating roots and weeds as they went, left behind clean land, that had been fertilized.
People talk about stinking goats and that is not true, it is owners who do not clean the pens.
Bill hated for me to get bored, he knew I would start a new project and he would be involved, and of course he had just cause to not want more work to do.
I had a chance to buy a good milk goat, the first year we were in Wellton, LOL, we had moved there, because he was sick and the doctor said “it would be nice if you could take him to Arizona” and I did.
I have always like land and a couple years before started making payments on 8 acres in Wellton. 5 miles out of town, in the desert.
The first year or 2 we lived in a 26’ trailer, so set up as much as we could outdoors in the patio.
I loved sleeping out there, sure beats 4 walls.
It wasn’t long before I got a second milk goat and when we went to bed at night, Lucy would sleep on the ground on Bills side and Misty slept on my side, they guarded us through the night.
Bill built them pens and locked them up, the truth is, I thought it was fun having them so close....they were not on chains or anything, just loose, so they went out aways to leave their manure.