Sawmill, Fencing, and the Piggerator System

they'll let it grow up rad we're gonna take you guys around and show you some of the stuff that you don't see in the flowers and butterflies channel about Polyface farm so there's a big old stack of wood like extra wood scrap wood any kind of wood no wood goes to waste because they're always building stuff and repairing fence posts and stuff like that there's a guy in here building a cart to put feed on right here our spare fence post and these guys mill all their own wood and we'll go up there and see the sawmill here in just a minute we're walking down here to the barn where the bigger raider is okay folks so we're in a hay barn this thing is probably 35 feet high there are feed troughs right here so when they get ready to pull hay off feed falls into the feed troughs which is really cool this area will be where they put the cows in the winter time and this place will stack up with manure all the way up to here as its stacking up with manure they throw corn out on the manure later on after the cows move out they move the pigs in and the pigs get in here and they call it the pig Raider so the pigs will get in here and turn the compost so instead of just putting straight manure on the farm they have the pigs come in and turn the compost and it gets to working and it provides a warm place for the pigs in the wintertime rad over here we got a batch of pea eggs looks like we've got hey piggies a few of all ages in here it's a great old big feeder water and they keep lots of bedding on here so and you can see all this is built up for bedding so guys the reason we're here at Polyface farm is to check out what they do and how they do it they raise pigs they raise cows they raise poultry they raise lambs they take the manure they spread it back on the land they use a lot of deep deep vetting they've got woodchips over here so they're constantly in a turning phase of compost and manure and land restoration and that's what we want to do on our farm we want to have the Polyface of North Carolina this barn right here is entirely full of woodchips for bedding carbonaceous matters in here are a couple of manure spreaders we need a manure spreader on our farm that's that big this is where they keep their baby chicks they must have got a delivery of baby chicks and this is their brooder house really cool everything here at Polyface farm recycles itself everything is in a constant motion of recycling and