ABOUT OUR MULTI-GENERATION FARM: 10 YEAR HISTORY

The Glendower Farms swine operation is part of one of Florida’s oldest family farms.  It was established in 1839 and is now in its eighth generation.   Though pigs have frequently played a significant role in the production heritage of the diversified family farm, the growing of Iberian pigs is a new enterprise introduced in 2015 by Hines Boyd.   Hines, who holds a PhD in agriculture and animal breeding from the University of Florida and has spent much of his career in agricultural development and management, helped some Spanish investors make the first U.S. import of Iberian pigs since the Spanish colonial days.   Twenty bred sows from that 2014 import soon made their way to Glendower Farms.  By 2018, the Glendower Farms herd had become a multi-generational family endeavor and had grown to more than 700 pigs.  It was one of the very few purebred Iberian pig herds in the U.S.

The home-schooled grandkids and their working parents did much of the day-to-day farm work.  Hines spent a lot of his time doing product development work and using his animal breeding background to try to solve some of the challenging issue surrounding outdoor Iberico pig product. 

By 2025, most of the grandkids had moved on to college, and Hines was beginning to think about slowing down.  The grower and pork processing operations were scaled back to less than 100 head of breeding stock.  Hines focused his attention on what he'd learned in ten years of growing and breeding Iberico pigs and the development of a purebred breeding herd to supply other potential Iberico pig breeders and growers.