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Not Your Average Christmas Ham

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The Ham  It was a few months ago at the Mudgee Wine Show where I finally said it out loud: I want to get a pig and eat it.  Okay, I understand that sounds cryptic but I can assure you it’s truly not. Every week we walk the isles of the supermarket catering to our wants and needs for energy and if you are anything like me, you read the catalogs for the latest specials to save a couple bucks. If it isn't on special I don’t buy it but does that mean the product is not worth the money? *Light bulb* How hard can it be to grow/ raise you own food? I can barely fulfill my need for fresh herbs with my own herb garden so I am guessing if I had to raise my own animals for meat, the occasion where I do enjoy the beast would be much more sentimental, or perhaps appreciated. Thankfully one of the guys I work with raises pigs so I bought two. Okay it wasn’t that simple…let me break down the process. I talked to Maurice (pig man) and he said: why have one when you could have tw