Welcome to our first blog!

Despite being town dwellers for most of our adult lives, we had both enjoyed childhoods in the countryside (of Slovakia and Canada) and increasingly felt the pull to a simpler life.

The lockdowns put it all in perspective for us - and although we couldn't do much, they didn't stop us from getting backyard chickens (and designing and building our own coop), getting married or getting a puppy!

Three years was all it took for our lives to change completely- from living in a town center apartment with no garden (although that didn't stop us putting a chicken coop and run on the grass verge...) to living in the countryside, with bees, chickens, pigs, dogs, babies and a whole lot of house renovation we're doing ourselves.

After feeling like we had mastered backyard chicken keeping, we were looking for our next challenge. So many homesteaders were raving about raising their own meat and while we couldn't find space locally for a cow or even full size pigs, we could manage to fit three Kune Kune onto a strip of land that a neighbour kindly rented to us at the end of our village. We experienced every stage (beyond rearing our own piglets) and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. For a few months, our freezer was full of the most delicious sausages and we would definitely keep pigs again in the future.

We're excited to share with you all that we learned about pig keeping and Kune Kune pigs on this blog isn the coming weeks and months.

You can expect to see blog posts about:
-why we chose kune kune pigs
-how much space you need to keep pigs
-what to feed pigs on a budget
-are pigs really escape artists?

We're always happy to answer your questions about keeping pigs for the first time, how to keep your pigs healthy and happy, anything else you might want to know about how we make this life work (and how you could do). Please drop us a line below or message us on instagram.