[Cactus Jack]

I live in rural Spain  on my organic olive farm.
I breed miniature /wild boar pigs for my own meat also goats and ducks for meat. And the usual chickens for eggs.
I produce all my own vegetables naturally nonGMO and totally organic.
I have been reading this site for quite a while now and at last have signed up.
Looking forward to contributing what little knowledge I have
Steve.
The house is called Cactus Jack because of two enormous cactii planted in front of it

[lachlanandmarcus]

Welcome from Aberdeenshire!! Wow, you sound like a real asset to have on the forum! Think we need some pics at the very least of the boar and the cacti???
 

[darkbrowneggs]

Wow - someone in Catalunya    I will look forward to all you have to say.  Southern Spain is on my list of places to visit and maybe buy a property once my own in the UK is sold   

[Cactus Jack]

The flowers on my cactus, it only flowers at night and the flowers die off as the sun comes up

[Cactus Jack]

My boar, he is quite friendly

[Bionic]

Hi and welcome from a very soggy Carmarthenshire. Lovely pics. Wish I could have a cactus like that

[Cactus Jack]

Those flowers are 6 inches across and  the actual cactii are 25 and 20 feet high

[lachlanandmarcus]

Thankyou for the pics, Mr Boar looks great!    And love the little piglet behind him.

[Rosemary]

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie 

[MAK]

Hi - I have already one of your posts on the pig keeping thread.
Is may seem strange to those of us with northern breeds of pigs that you can keep yours in a land where you grow olives and have such splendid cactus ( or is cacti). i.e. seriousley hot down there.
Greetings from the Limousin France !

[Cactus Jack]

The heat is why we breed the wild boar into the pigs as they are very hairy and are obviously acclimatised to the extreme heat. I provide plenty of shade and large wallows. In fact the pigs now know to pull apart the connections on my pipe work to increase the size of the wallows when it's really hot. I use a tremendous amount of water.

[Lesley Silvester]

  and welcome from  Shropshire where it definitely isn't warm enough to grow cacti in the garden. 

[darkbrowneggs]

The heat is why we breed the wild boar into the pigs as they are very hairy and are obviously acclimatised to the extreme heat. I provide plenty of shade and large wallows. In fact the pigs now know to pull apart the connections on my pipe work to increase the size of the wallows when it's really hot. I use a tremendous amount of water.

I am currently toying with the idea of a property in Spain, and one of the things that crossed my mind was the availability of water or otherwise.  Are you on mains water, or do you have a borehole or well of some description

[Cactus Jack]

I am 1000 feet up a mountain, so I have a share in a community well, 12 of us altogether, and the water is pumped up 2 miles from the bottom of the mountain. I get 13000 litres at a time, at a cost of approx €1.02 per 1000 litres. So it's not cheap but it's always available (touch wood)
I would strongly recommend if you buy here to get somewhere with water. If you rely on rainfall, then you will struggle. It hasn't rained here for 4 months. Two years ago we went 196 days with no rain at all

[Mammyshaz]

Hello and welcome from Durham 
Sounds like you have an interesting life in the Spanish mountains. It is going to be I treating to read your input in posts on here