Last week was an extremely busy one here.
Four chefs came on separate visits.
We hosted a coffee morning for the local Hospice but the highlight (for us anyway) was the Pig Rearing Course on Saturday.
We had been toying with the idea of running such a course for almost a year! The content had been worked upon, but we were not sure if people really did want to learn about keeping pigs!
Then there was that article in Country Living – and the response was phenomenal from people all over the country who wanted to learn about pigs.
So there we had it! People did want to know, so there was no better time to schedule a course!
So last Saturday we had our first course. Seven people travelled from various parts of the country to learn, and get up close to the pigs.
Alfie covered topics including housing, space/land, feeding, farrowing, fencing – well, he can and did talk for hours about his pigs! 🙂
It was left to me to cook up lunch…. so I shared my 2 miracle dishes – feeding 10 people with one, yes ONE, pack of sausages! Sausage and Chickpea Pot (which I must share with you all) and the now almost infamous Tomato and Sausage Pasta. Both seemed to be a big hit!
At the end of the day, it is what the participants think and we think they enjoyed it…. here are some comments
Good weather good info good food what more would you want. Well done and thanks!
Thanks so much for a great day, me and dad learned loads from you both, you should write a book!
We’ve actually had such a huge interest that we have scheduled another course for Sunday, 6th November…. bookings are already coming in, so if you’d like to come along, you can book here!
A Year In Redwood 
Sounds like it was a great day all round. I am sure that everyone loved every bite. And I agree – get writing that book (if you are not already!)
Delighted for you that it received such interested, and another one is in the offing. Busy times there for you.
So, so busy….. not sure when we will be able to come up for air!
I’m glad it worked so well for you. I’ve been asked quite a few times to run pig keeping courses, but I lack the patience and tact to do so. I can just about handle the attitudes and daft things expressed by individuals when they come to buy our weaners, but that’s because it’s one or two people in the space of an hour’s visit. Trying to deal with 6-10 people over the space of a day would be too much for me. (Mind you, the OH is a teacher so I could always handball it to her… 😀 )
We had a really good group which helped enormously! All really interested in keeping pigs and full of good, practical questions! And as you say you could delegate!!!! 🙂
M
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