Clinton County Landfill 2014 LIDAR 10 foot Contours
This shows the height and elevation of the landfill back during the last LIDAR survey preformed in Clinton County.
This shows the height and elevation of the landfill back during the last LIDAR survey preformed in Clinton County.
I lost my password so that’s part of the reason I hadn’t been updating it. To make matters worse, the spam filter was eating all of the github password resets, so I had to dig through my settings to find the missing emails. But I got my access and reset my github to new more secure password and made sure it’s in my keyring.
My farm vet dissuaded me from purchasing a boar to start my herd by sharing horror stories about their razor sharp tusks and unpredictable nature. He said he’d personally rescued a guy from being trampled to death by an angry boar. So I decided to start with a sow. A pregnant sow. Ms. Piggie, as I named her, was a chocolate brown duroc-Yorkshire mix, with a mane of black hair running down her back. She was beautiful, all 350 pounds of her. This may sound strange, but I think pigs have the most human-like face of any animal – if you discount the snout and focus on the eyes, you’ll see what I mean. Ms. Piggie had these incredible eyelashes, just like Jim Henson’s muppet. The economics sounded promising: Pigs average about 10 babies per litter, so for the price of a few weaners I would end up with 10 pigs, plus a mama that I could breed again the next year, and the next, and the next. As with my goats, I would just rent a boar when the time came. That day never arrived, however, as my time as a pig farmer lasted just one stressful year. Here’s a few of the lessons I learned along the way.