The Herald, Sharon, PA Published Saturday, August 30, 2003

Key to fresh pork called air apparent

By Sherris Moreira-Byers

Herald Staff Writer

Some people like to bring home the bacon. Other people like to sell it.

A family in Worth Township does both by raising 1,000 crossbred pigs and selling their "Fresh Air Pork" products locally and regionally.

Unlike some commercial hog farms where the animals are kept inside buildings called confinement units, the swine at Bill and Denise Brownlee's Wil-Den Family Farms have the run of the land.

"They're all raised outdoors naturally," said Mrs. Brownlee, whose family has been in the pig business for more than eight years. "We don't use any antibiotics as growth promotants, we just use a high quality feed. We don't have preservatives or MSG in our products."

Their product is sold in County Market in Pine Township, two Pittsburgh stores, the new weekly Jackson Meadows Country Market in Worth Township and out of their home on Limber Road.



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