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| The plate |
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| Digram of the salumi |
Beyond the history of the tenuta, the pigs play a central role in the place. Here's the ending of the process--prosciutto hanging in a cellar followed by a plate of delicious salumi. "Salumi" is the collective name for the cured meat products.
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| Stained glass "Soprasatto" |
The pigs are kept in large tracts of the oak/pine/live oak forest of the hills around the villa. They are fed a ground-up grain and bean mixture in the winter. Their feeding troughs are in a fenced-off area and the pigs have to enter through a narrow chute to get to the food. This systems trains them to go through a fenced area which prepares them enter the gate that moves them into the truck to take to slaughter.
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| Pigs coming in for food |
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| Feed shed |
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| Molly and Emma patching up the fence |
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| Emma meeting the "gray" cross pigs |
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| Pig feeder |
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