The Great Escape!

One of the predictable things about animals is that they are completely unpredictable! This is our third year raising Oxford Sandy and Black pigs and we were starting to think that we knew a thing or two about pig keeping.  We were all organized for the 4th August, the day we were to make our […]

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Pigs With Character

‘…pigs with character farmed by people with character will tend to produce pork with character,’ says Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall in The River Cottage Meat Book.  Our friends can be the judge of whether or not Colin and I have ‘character’ but our lovely Oxford Sandy and Black pigs had character in abundance. They left the […]

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