Hey all, I have been harvesting from this blog for a long time now and have finally decided to dive in.
...I have done A LOT of research and am still at a loss.
PIGS, I need them, I want them. I've recently bought land in down east Maine, It is mostly young boreal forest/bog land, some would call it a terror for farming, But it was cheap and we have blueberries, are on a coastal river and it was cheap.
So here is my dilemma...I would love to get feeder pigs to do some clearing for me in an area where id like to do hugels in the future. There is A LOT of alder, the small grey? alder we get here, making it very hard to get through. Some of it is boggy and some is not. Will the pigs develop any sort if issues with their feet from the boggy areas? It is not as though it is STRAIGHT bog, or very deep. I know they are good at their jobs, so is it bad for them to be turning up the peat? Will they eat peat? Any other random advice for this kind of forest???
Thanks to any who can help...
