We’ve received an interesting request through our contact form recently:

“I am trying to find any information about a ministry of food scheme that ran in Wednesfield and other areas as well, where you could raise 4 pigs a year in your own back yard, sell two to the Ministry of food and kill and keep two for your self’s.

My family joined the scheme and if I remember rightly raised 8 pigs.

I have been putting to paper my life story for the grand kids and would like some details and stories from anyone who remembers the scheme.”

Personally intrigued by this I have googled all the terms I could come up with to try and find more information about raising pigs and selling them to the Ministry of Food but to no avail. Do you remember anything about this? Did your family raise pigs themselves?

In short, Can you help?

Photo by Paxie used under Creative Commons license.

Watch YouTube footage from ‘The Battle Of the Black Country’ above.

It’s been just over a year since Wednesfield’s state-of-the-art skate park ‘Amos Plaza’ was opened and last weekend local skaters celebrated the park’s first anniversary with a event organised by local skate group Gnargore, dubbed “The Battle Of The Black Country”.

The event, which was publicised on the UK website of skate-wear giant Vans, saw prizes from brands such from A Third Foot, Death, Heroin, Landscape, Vans, Heathen and Unabomber being given out during ‘best trick’ jams, as well as a prize for ‘best slam’ of the day.

Check out more photos from the event here – warning, this link contains some choice language, do not click if you’re easily offended!