Currently, the group is made up of 25 hog farmers, all of which are third-party Animal Welfare Approved and certified non-GMO. The oldest of the farmers in the organization are in their early 80s and have been farming all their lives, some on confinement hog operations. Those experiences led these farmers to seek a different way of raising hogs on pasture, or as some old-timers say, “on the ground” (as opposed to in concrete-floored buildings). Pigs are not ruminants like cattle and sheep, so the pasture is not forage so much as it is habitat. These habitats include trees and muddy wallows as well as grassy fields, where the pigs can be…well, pigs!

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