France’s oldest indigenous pig breed, the AOP Porc Noir de Bigorre or Parc Gascon, with their black coats and horizontal ears, live free range in the Pyrenean foothills, eating grass, acorns, chestnuts, and triticale (a wheat and rye hybrid).
Marbled with fat, they are the source of some of France’s finest pork and hams, and always command a premium price.
Image by Roland Darré