Few people would consider chasing pigs to be among their favorite activities in life. And when you are an award-winning cheesemaker about to hit your busy season, it’s absolutely not the best use of your time.
So two years ago when Andy Hatch of Uplands Cheese Company outsourced the day-to-day operation of raising pigs, the result wasn’t just more time to tend to his Pleasant Ridge Reserve and Rush Creek Reserve cheeses, but a whole new product — a whey-fed pork salami made from those pigs Hatch once chased around the farm outside Dodgeville... read more