Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of November 2016

Happy Thanksgiving from Unity Farm!A new pig has joined the herd - Lunchbox. He ’s 3 years old and has a remarkable personality.  He loves humans and is very good with children.  We ’re gradually introducing him to Hazel and Tofu through a livestock fence.  In a week or so, we ’ll bring them together snout to snout once they have had the opportunity to learn each other’s smells and temperament.  Creating harmony in a pig herd is an art form and there ’s agreat deal of literature about it.  We ’re seeing the expected behaviors - grunting/chewing, side stepping, and a bit of mouth foaming.Here ’s a photo of the pigs enjoying an organic Unity Farm pumpkin together on either side of a fence.We ’ve continuing to prepare the land between the Farm and the Sanctuary with new trails and roads.  We ’ve chipped all our old mushroom logs to create a base for new trails.  The Sanctuary Road and Coyote Run are finished.  We ’ll work on the Pond Trail and Pine Loop once we take ownership of the Sanctuary property in December.Kathy ’s vision is to create large paddocks in the forest between the two properties over the next few years so that we’ll eventually have a much larger animal rescue capacity.All of this takes careful consideration of how all the creatures will interact in a community, ensuring we have the time and resources to offer each an enriching life.For the moment, we ’re planning to add two do...
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