Black Alpine Pig

At the annual meeting of PatriMont-Switzerland, Anna Jenni, project manager at FiBL, spoke about the results of the first two years (2022-23) of the Fern Eaters project. It is well known that black Alpine pigs like to eat bracken, even though it is actually poisonous. They do not show any discomfort and can be used to suppress the overgrowth of bracken in the Alps. Studies by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) have now shown that the poison is not stored in the body and that the pig products are harmless. A very astonishing advantage of this mountain-suitable pig breed.