Mama Pig
I lived in Gillette, Wyoming, when I ran across an article about a woman raising pasture pigs just outside of Baker City, my hometown. I was ecstatic and emailed her immediately. I didn't know what would come of our communication, if anything, but I had to let her know how excited I was about what she was doing and that if I could support her somehow, I would. Amy was doing something I thought was incredibly important: growing quality meat in a way that supported and improved the environment. She had a few sows and a boar that she kept on leased land that was mostly sagebrush and by moving her electric fence regularly was using pigs to do rotational grazing, stirring up the seedbank in the land with their rooting and little hooved toes. Imagine that! Pigs were helping rangeland become more productive and were growing pork for us to eat at the same time and were never confined unless they decided to sleep in their hut if the weather was bad. Amy wrote back, thanking me