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Jonathan Kemmerer and Molly Diven, Odd Bird Farm

Back-to-basics innovation: How two former vegetarians revived a 5,000-year-old pig breed in the hills of Platte County

By Tommy Felts / August 7, 2020

First comes a sudden rustling of leaves, followed by soft grunting and the patter of dozens of unseen hoofed feet hitting the Platte County earth. A stampede of 30 pubescent Meishan piglets darts out of a wooded area at the base of a rolling hill covered in native plants, legumes and organic maize. “They look…

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