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 ...

"Come on pig, pig, pig, pig, pigs," Amanda Hand called on a recent Wednesday morning. From across the grassy pasture, snorts and squeals from 21 Kunekune pigs erupted. They ran through the tall grass ...

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 ...

It’s Monday which means, another day of Farm to Fork. The topic today is pasture raised pork and how you can cook with it. Pasture raised means pigs are raised on pasture, with access to natural ...

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 ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a hard-working 15-year-old turns a swine project into a profitable business. This story is part of our Student Reporting Lab series Making It Work. The nation ...

A part of Bob Mattie died when his workshop went up in flames in 2012. It was the part that had toiled for 26 years as a cabinet-maker and trim carpenter. In a matter of minutes, all his machinery and ...

Things have come a long way since George Orwell penned his paean to the almighty pig in his 1945 classic Animal Farm. Orwell's animals, of course, were stand-ins for the power-hungry totalitarians of ...

That means the pigs wake up at first light, and wander out to graze and eat breakfast out on the pasture for a few hours. Then they all wander back as a herd, Burtness said, to spend the rest of the ...