Our TeleFood group

This is Juan Landaeta feeding one of the pigs. We asked him to join the group because he had a large garden where we could build the pigpen.

We do an equal amount of work although Juan won't help when the piglets are born. He says he can't stand the sight of blood. It doesn't bother me. Each sow has an average of eight piglets, twice a year, which we sell for 35 000 bolívares or 22 US dollars each.

We learned a lot about pig raising, how to castrate them, cut their tails and to remove their incisor teeth so they can't bite the other pigs. Because the pigs are a good breed from the university, people in the settlement buy and raise them, so it has been good for the whole settlement.