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==Slopping the hogs==
[[File:The Drunken Peasant Pushed into a Pigsty LACMA 58.21.1.jpg|thumb|Jan Brueghel the Elder (after) (Flanders, Brussels, 1568–1625), Johan Wierix (Flanders, Antwerp, 1549 – c. 1618)]]

Historically, these farms fed hogs on grain, fruit and vegetables that are not fit for sale or family use.  Overage produce from the farmer’s market and table and restaurant scraps were often diet elements as well.  This practice of 'swill feeding' (feeding table scraps) is considered a disease risk today, though this is mainly associated with feeding meat to pigs, which is banned in many countries. Hogs were also fed "slops" made from middlings or corn meal stirred with milk and water.  

Historically, hogs were also allowed to forage in gardens and orchards after the harvest was over.  Such foraging can cause erosion and runoff, but the small scale of these operations prevented this from occurring.