FORAGING THROUGH GRASS and straw, wallowing in mud and trotting around lush paddocks with mates – the pigs at Western Plains Pork in Mount Mercer, Victoria, live an idyllic, free-range life. This isn’t just good for the pigs, it’s great for the environment as well. Pork is a particularly sustainable protein to produce – especially the way Tim and Judy Croagh farm. Their drove of 4000 healthy sows live in paddocks or special straw-based eco shelters as part of a nine-year paddock rotation cycle in which the pigs are moved to a fresh site on the farm every two to three years.
Western Plains Pork leases