NC college farm welcome first pig litter of 2009
SWANNANOA, N.C. — At most colleges, a new semester starts with students buying books, getting ready for new classes and attending a party or two. But at a college in North Carolina’s mountains, some students are also welcoming a litter of piglets.
The unusual collegiate event happened this month at Warren Wilson College, where each of the 900 students is required to work on campus. About 25 student work on the college farm, where about $150,000 worth of naturally raised meat is sold each year.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Monday that the first piglets of the New Year – eight in all – came from a sow named Virginia. Between 300 and 600 piglets are born each year at Warren
Wilson’s farm, which is maintained entirely by students.
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