My First Pig
Publisher’s Note: We hope you enjoy this Reader’s favorite, from July 2003, Volume 29, Number 6, written by HFN staff writer and local TV celebrity, the late Mike Sakamoto. Look for more soon!
The word was that a herd of wild pigs were coming down from the Waiakea watershed above my friend, Haru Takamine’s, garden and digging up all of his plants, especially the sweet potatoes and tomatoes that grew so well in the dark soil of Hilo. Haru’s garden was his retirement hobby, and he was astonished by the amount of digging a herd of 10 pigs had done in his 50-foot garden. It looked as if a construction firm had brought their backhoe in and worked over the garden for a couple of hours. The
