Field and Garden: Local foods provide opportunities

My wife and I bought a pig two weeks ago. Actually, we bought half a pig.

Our niece’s children are enrolled in the 4-H swine project. The brother and sister duo own several sows, and they’ve developed a good business of direct marketing meat from the animals they raise.

We get a call each fall saying that the pigs are ready and asking if we want to buy one. The enterprising 4-H’ers tell us, “Happy...