[rooster crows]
>> How're you doin'?
I'm here to give you the
crop report.
The bad news probably is just
that I'm not really home enough
to do this right.
But the real bad news is that
I was up north just yesterday
visiting my brother.
He's a real farmer.
He's got one of them big, green
tractors and about 700 acres
of dirt he takes care of.
And he says it's been a real
tough spring.
Because it's been so cold and
unsettled, nothings really
takin' off.
Things are kinda hangin'
in stasis and not
gettin' very tall.
I wish that that were the reason
that my stuff looks like
it looks like.
But my stuff often looks like
this no matter what the spring's
been like.
Our main thing here is to try to
get some of this land back and
producing food for our little
batch animals.
This field here is basically
pig salad.
Every few days we just bring the
pigs a little further into this
patch here.
They'll till this all up and
they'll harass the quack a
little bit, and they'll
fertilize it.
They get fresh garden greens and
they get fresh dirt to dig in.
So it's great way to get this
field back and runnin'.
By the time they get down to the
end of this patch this plant
right here will be about
ten feet tall, and there'll be
all these little nuggets of
nutrition down in the dirt.
It's like the piggy version of
finding the prize at the bottom
of a box of Cracker Jacks.
[chickens squawk]
But we do what we can here.
And I'm always happy.
I mean, I was never happier
then this winter when the girls
and I would go down and we'd
shell out some of that puny corn
that we grew last year, but it
was our corn!
And we fed it to our chickens
and got nice eggs from it.
You know, the key with us is
we set the bar low.
That way we got a pretty good
chance of winding up happy.
[rooster crows]