Swine Chat with Cathy R. Payne and Seth Wright

The Livestock Conservancy

Welcome to our fourth Swine Chat! This week we're excited to welcome Cathy R. Payne and Seth Wright to chat about American Guinea Hogs! Cathy R. Payne first learned about The Livestock Conservancy in 2008. When she retired from teaching in 2010 and started a sustainable farm, she decided to focus on heritage breeds. She became a member and raised Khaki Campbell ducks, Silver Fox rabbits, American rabbits, Gulf Coast sheep, and American Guinea Hogs. She advocates for heritage breeds year-round and works part-time as Program Research Associate for The Livestock Conservancy. Cathy sold her farm in 2018 and is the award-winning author of "Saving the Guinea Hogs: The Recovery of an American Homestead Breed" with a foreword by D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, PhD. She is always ready to talk about heritage breeds, but most of all about American Guinea Hogs and the long history they have had in the South. Find Cathy online ... Website: www.guineahogbooks.com Instagram and Twitter: @guineahogbooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Book1GuineaHogBooks Seth Wright has been raising and breeding registered American Guinea Hogs in the woodlands of North central Massachusetts for over four years. He has exhibited his livestock at the NOFA Summer conference as well as the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania. Seth has served on the Board of Directors for the American Guinea Hog Association for two years. At Timberhaven Farm, Seth also raises Delaware and Australorp chickens and has been marketing the meat and eggs from his animals through a heritage breed/ fed-organic meat CSA that serves the local community. Find Seth online ... https://timberhavenfarm.com/ https://www.openherd.com/farms/9697 https://www.facebook.com/acorneater [e-mail] https://www.instagram.com/timberhavenfarm/ Find more from The Livestock Conservancy on their Website, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.