What can pigs eat? This farm sets out to find the answers. Everybody has (or should have) something that really makes them feel alive — some topic or calling that gets them unreasonably excited. At ...

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 ...

MENAHGA, Minn. — You’d never guess there was a severe drought at Single Cedar Farm in Menahga, Minnesota, south of Wolf Lake. Robert and Sue Keranen operate a 100% perennial, pasture-based farm. They ...

Here’s a tricky riddle someone asked me the other day…”How do you keep the pigs from wrecking your pasture in really wet weather?” Turns out you can successfully graze pigs on pasture, even when it ...

Big Island native Brandon Lee is raising organic Berkshire pigs sustainably, and his goal is to create the optimal pig for Hawaiian cooking. In this episode of Cooking in America, host Sheldon Simeon ...

FARIBAULT, Minn. ― When Tiffany Tripp moved back to the farm she grew up at in 2011, she didn't realize just over a decade later she'd be running her own successful operation on it. Tripp and her ...

Over the past few years, the popularity of eating sustainably grown meat has grown dramatically in progressive communities like the East Bay. Marin Sun Farms and The Local Butcher Shop, which sell ...

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 ...