So, what has pig poo got to do with skin care? Well I'm hoping it has a positive benefit to the skin...since that is what the above pictures show....my legs covered with the dust from pig poo, fertilizer and soil.
So for someone that has left the corporate world to try his hand at farming, and that farming is NOT something I have a history with, then a lot of the information and lessons come from others knowledge and trial and error.
One of those lessons came when trying to prepare the soil for the winter season's planting. We were always going to use compost to feed the soil before closing up the fields with tarpaulins till ready to plant.
Problem was the money it cost to have a truck deliver a 15cm load of compost for the land!! I couldn't believe the cost! So was there another option?
I went to the neighbours that have 30 odd pigs, got permission to shovel all his pig poo into a bakkie (truck) and then use this on the land. I was excited that I now had a cheap way of fertilizing the land......wrong!! 2x bakkie loads later, a lot of sweat and effort, stinky pig poo remains over us, spreading the poo all over the ground and all we had to show was around 3m x 12m worth of compost, not even 1% of what we needed!! Not only that, the farmer had no more poo to offer. Sounds crazy just writing that!
So luckily I had previously bought a 10kg bag of fertilizer for the wife in her private garden which happened to cover 200m squared area. This offered a screened (without unwanted weeds/seeds etc) food that would offer nutrients for the soil we needed. So after a quick call and some organizing we arranged a lot more of the fertilizer, and for a fraction of the cost (around R1500/acre against the cheapest price of R15000 for UNSCREENED compost/acre)) we had enough fertilizer to spread easily per hand over the land we had prepared! I was so excited.
So now the only question remains......was that poo any good for my skin???