We have a holiday business, an old converted Mill, adventurously named "Il Mulino" (http://www.ilmulino-tuscany.com/) . More about that soon!
Firstly though I want to tell you about our neighbours. As well as farming the land, they keep pigs...and lots of them. Every April they buy lots of piglets with a view to fattening them up!! Last April they bought 60! The pigs are all slaughtered during the cold months of January and February. Over the course of the year they put all the pig "doings" in a very big pile. Can you can imagine how much 60 pigs make in 10 months?? Once they've said goodbye to the last of the pigs, they spread the contents of the big pile over their fields. We are about 1km from our neighbours, but they always seem to spread the "fertilizer" on a windy day, and always when the wind blows straight up the valley and past our house.
So, just for one day a year, we celebrate "fertilizer day"!
There's a large field in Crawley Down where they do a similar thing. I don't know if it's piggy poo, but it smells pretty strong. They're obviously not so selective about the wind though because you can't always smell it. Good luck with the blog!
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