We had thrown the idea around for years of raising pigs. We first talked about raising them for meat production but didn’t know if we would be able to complete the process start-to-finish. Alan didn’t ...

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production.

Plateau Farm stands atop a ridge on the Biltmore Estate’s west side and includes an eclectic mix of buildings from different time periods. Bill Alexander, Biltmore’s landscape and forest historian, ...

ONCE upon a time, there were three little pigs — a Duroc hybrid, a Berkshire and an Ibérico — that merrily settled in the great American house of pork. “I shall mature rapidly and produce large ...

Berkshire chef Woodie Thomas shows off a bacon flight. The Berkshire, which Andy Ganick opened in December in Stapleton, is all about the pig. It’s named, of course, after the most famous of the ...