"Come on pig, pig, pig, pig, pigs," Amanda Hand called on a recent Wednesday morning. From across the grassy pasture, snorts and squeals from 21 Kunekune pigs erupted. They ran through the tall grass ...

Editor's note: This is the second part in a series on Nettle Valley Farm. Click here to read the first part. SPRING GROVE, Minnesota ― Dayna Burtness said pig season at Nettle Valley farm is the ...

Get introduced to the topic of raising heritage pigs from "Pork" Rhyne of The Livestock Conservancy. Learn about the value of heritage breeds, which were carefully selected and bred over time. Get to ...

The sources that follow are a mix of farms raising pigs on pasture or businesses sourcing lard from pastured pigs. Some offer leaf lard, the creamy sheath of fat that surrounds the kidney, while ...

Joel Salatin at his farm where he rotates herds from field to field, where the fare includes porcine treats like acorns and black walnuts near Swoope, Va., Oct. 8, 2013. Salatin is the high priest of ...

Farmer Clay Trainum whistled at a group of young boars from a distance, urging them to greet him on a recent afternoon at Autumn Olive Farms on the outskirts of Waynesboro. “Come on, boys,” he ...

Much of Brandon Huisman’s small hog operation is typical of how the animal was raised in the 1950s and 60s, when sows were farrowed in small, A-shaped hog houses located in pastures. It’s the way he ...

Nancy Poli grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and had no agricultural experience when she moved to her farm in the Pocono Mountains more than 20 years ago. Back then, Poli kept a few horses and ...

That means the pigs wake up at first light, and wander out to graze and eat breakfast out on the pasture for a few hours. Then they all wander back as a herd, Burtness said, to spend the rest of the ...