Jan-Maat’s Reviews > Big Pig, Little Pig: A Year on a Smallholding in South-West France > Status Update

Never keep a single pig, we are told, right at the beginning. Always two at least; more if you like. A pig needs company, stimulation, interaction. A pig needs to be part of a herd. A drift of pigs, it was called, in the middle ages.

"The daily interaction with the pigs & the land they're inhabiting has become like an extended meditation, each moment, each experience incubating the next, serenely but certainly; it's allowed me to place myself in time...I remember when it started & I know when it's going to end. It's going to end with the death of pigs."

This is a three kiss part of France and it can take some time to work your way round a table of friends, three kisses at a time