Source: Holly Kays, SMOKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, 8/11/21


Morning cool still hangs over the grassy fields at Smoky Mountain Mangalitsa Farm  as Catherine Topel approaches a pair of 350-pound sows with a bucketful of breakfast.  “I always say a bucket is your best friend, because they do bite,” she says as the pigs knock their long, tube-like snouts against the pail. “So you never know. It’s nice to have something between you and their mouth.” The pigs are shedding, the last patches of wiry, golden-brown curls peeling off their backs in large clumps.

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