Wooly Pigs & Heath Putnam Farms
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Heath Putnam Farms, better known as Wooly Pigs, was formed to produce pork equal to Europe's best.
To this end, we imported the Mangalitsa, a highly specialized breed that produces some of the world's most juicy and flavorful meat and fat.
We raise the Mangalitsa with Austrian techniques that maximize its potential. We also process the pigs with special European techniques, producing pork and products very different from those generally available in the USA. Download this PDF document for more info.
Wooly Pigs sells breeding stock and feeder pigs. Contact us if you want to buy some, saying where you live.
Newest Mangalitsa Products
Johnston County Hams is the only company offering cured hams and shoulders from our pork. Because of all the things we do to make the best raw material, these are the best-tasting hams produced in the USA.
Johnston County Hams has just started selling their first Mangalitsa hams and shoulders. They are like prosciutto: dry-cured and aged. Order the hams here and Order the shoulders here.
We have started producing Bauchspeck (belly) and Godaspeck (jowl) and lardo. People make speck from various parts of the pig. It is a cured, cold-smoked and dried product. Lardo is cured fatback.Email for more info at hp@woolypigs.com.
National Distribution
Our processor, Swiss Meat and Sausage Company, distributes our meat. Call 543-486-2086 and place an order. Make sure to mention you want our pork, because they process regular pigs too.
DeBragga and Spitler ships our products to customers across the USA.
Currently, Foods In Season, reachable at (866) 767-2464, distributes our pork to restaurants across the entire USA.
Chef Shop sells our lard.
New York
DeBragga and Spitler sells our products in New York.
Seattle
Bill the Butcher might have our pork at their various locations.
Wooly Pigs also sells directly to customers in Seattle. If you live near Seattle, please see here for more info on how to purchase.
San Francisco
Wooly Pigs sells directly to customers in San Francisco. If you live near San Francisco, please see here for more info on how to purchase.
News and Blog
Find news related to Wooly Pigs, Mangalitsa and other Mangalitsa producers here.
General Info
We've organized information about the pig and related topics here. Please select a topic that interests you.
- Introducing the Mangalitsa
Roast Mangalitsa with skin and fat attached 
- What makes Mangalitsa so great.
- Air-cured Products and Meat Quality
- A review of what makes air-cured products so special, and the challenges of raising meat for curing. How we raise the pigs for the highest meat quality.
- Buy
- How to Purchase Mangalitsa.
- Customers
- Who Buys our Mangalitsa.
- Blog
- The Wooly Pigs blog - updated frequently.
- Videos
- See some pigs.
- Travelogue
- A visit to a few Austrian Mangalitsa Farms, a master butcher and a very fine restaurant.
- About Us
- Who we are. Our goals.
- American Mangalitsa Producers
- America's Mangalitsa Producers
- Site Index