'We pay ourselves in sausages': The 'tricky' business of being mobile pig farmers

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In this week's episode of Movin' To The Country, meet the chef who moved to Australia for love and ended up running a regenerative piggery that moves around the Macedon Ranges.

There are a few things unusual about this.

"Actually, it just felt like, 'How am I going to get to this level where I have 15 different paddocks to move these pigs, in a way that I'm taking care of the land, and also taking care of the animals?'Presenter Halina Baczkowski, Reign "Buck" Buckingham, Jade Lillie, Amy Pagett and Fernando Moreno Rodriguez in Daylesford, Victoria.

"It is all about the soil that you're on and what it needs, and the way you manage the animals," Buck said. "It's about getting out there and giving it a go, finding people around you that can support you, and learning on the job," she said.And Ms Pagett acknowledges it has not been easy.

 

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