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The Nose Knows
Wilma: Pig noses tilt up, down, and side-to-side. Pig noses sniff and smell and snuffle. Pig noses lift straw and shift feed and move...
Jul 29, 2025


Pig Destiny
Wilma: With nuts and grains and plants and even frogs, North America gave lots of food to pigs. So a few American pigs turned into lots...
Jul 22, 2025


The American Pig Dream
Wilma: Colonists came across the Atlantic and brought European pigs along. Those pigs found nuts and plants in forests, and snails along...
Jul 15, 2025


Positive Pigs
Wilma: When the Spanish decided to explore the mainland, Caribbean pigs hopped aboard the ships to Florida. They’d had a run of bad luck...
Jul 8, 2025


The Columbian Compromise
Wilma: That Columbus, he did not give, he only took. In 1493, Columbus took pigs from the Canary Islands to Cuba and Jamaica. Pigs did...
Jul 1, 2025


The Plant Binary
Ack! A bug! But perhaps a "good" one? Piled with years of decaying refuse, its thin soil scraped away and overgrazed, the Patch was in a...
Jun 15, 2025


Get Small
Small and very local bees... I am mad, but I don’t want to get even. Instead, I want out – out of a culture where everyone seems...
Jun 1, 2025


Henry the Hen-Pecked
Greetings. You were planning on obtaining the services of an assistant barn cat, correct? I have been faithfully persisting in my Patch...
May 29, 2025


Too Many Beards, Not Enough Dancing
Jorge the Boar likes pig celebrations, especially ones that include apples. Wilma: Pigs went to Newfoundland, to stay with Norse folks...
May 27, 2025
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