Guinea hog history – Guinea Hog Books and Information

International Heritage Breeds Week 2020 and a History of Support

By Cathy R. Payne | May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 by Cathy R. Payne

What is International Breeds Week? International Heritage Breeds Week is May 17-23 in 2020. This celebration, conceived by The Livestock Conservancy, is always the third full week in May. The history and purpose of the week are expounded here. The aim is to raise global awareness of endangered livestock breeds such as the Guinea Hog. The hashtag on social media is #HeritageBreedsWeek. The Conservancy, previously known as the American Minor Breeds Conservancy (AMBC) and the…

Six Month Reflection on Saving the Guinea Hogs

By Cathy R. Payne | September 15, 2019November 15, 2019 by Cathy R. Payne

by Cathy R. Payne September 15, 2019 It’s been six months since the March 15th E-book release of Saving the Guinea Hogs. What a wild ride that has been! The softcover was available about mid-April and the hardcover by mid-May. I thought I would share with you how the book has changed my life and that of many others. It’s been very exciting to have a tool that I can take with me to help…

Book of the Week from Acres U.S.A.

By Cathy R. Payne | June 26, 2019July 30, 2019 by Cathy R. Payne

Acres U.S.A., the Voice of Eco-Agriculture, is a publisher that produces magazines, books, and events geared to help sustainable farmers. They have an online bookstore that sells their own books plus quality farm books that are published elsewhere, like mine. I’ve been shopping with them for years. This week the marketing department at Acres U.S.A. will be focusing on my first book, Saving the Guinea Hogs. Check out this link for an author interview, an…

Launch Day is Here!

By Cathy R. Payne | March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 by Cathy R. Payne

This book has been a long time coming—after over five years of interviews, pouring over archival data, recording and transcribing, intensive internet searches, seeking contact information on possible sources, and slowly but surely piecing it all together in a coherent story. The print books are still about a month away from readiness, as I work with an interior book designer and an indexer to put the finishing touches on them. The e-book is live today,…

Historic Names for the Guinea Hog

By Cathy R. Payne | October 3, 2018May 10, 2020 by Cathy R. Payne

This “fun fact” is an excerpt from Chapter 1 in my upcoming book, Guinea Hogs Lost and Found: The Amazing Grace of breed Conservancy.