Farm Girl with Curls Blogger Engages With Consumers About Raising Pigs

Lauren Schwab Eyre, who blogs at Farm Girl with Curls, farms full time with her family about an hour north of Cincinnati, Ohio, near Somerville. She’s combined her love of pigs, country music and bourbon to ignite conversations with consumers online and share important information about raising pigs to the public. Eyre’s dad began pig farming after high school, so she was born into the family business. “He started raising showpigs, but really fell in love with farrowing when he had an uncle give him his first sow,” she says. “In the ’90s, the opportunity came for him to start contract raising with raising piglets for another farmer in Ohio. That’s what we’ve done as long as I’ve been alive.” The farm is a breed to wean farm with around 1,200 sows. “We sell about 1,200 to 1,300 piglets every couple of weeks to other farmers,” Eyre adds. “I grew up learning all the farrowing process, and that’s where I spend most of my time is in the farrowing houses. I am on a farm full time.” Eyr