I was in Silay City, Negros Occidental over the weekend to be part of the Philippine Blog Awards Visayas hosted the city known as "The Paris of Negros". The next day the Tourism Office toured the delegates around it's cultural and heritage sites dubbed as "Lagaw Silay". Among the most memorable legs of the tour for me was the visit to Fresh Start Organics farm where I saw this pig devouring lots of leaves. I forgot from which tree it came from but it doesn't matter since pigs usually eat "damog" (kaning baboy), those what is left over from the human consumption.
While others are feeds fed, seeing one that is almost vegetarian is really a human interest story. From the looks of it, the pig is slim and lean like most of it's human counterpart doing the same diet thus the notion of a healthier pig thus a "healthier" supply of pork it can give. And it excited us more when it was casually announced that part of our lunch will be a lechong organic pig. Indeed, it was the star of the feast like most lechons are.
It was a perfectly cooked lechon I must say - golden brown and crisp skin and even without the sauce it was a pleasure to eat knowing that it was organic aside from being tasty. The fatty and meaty portions inside looked very clean without the usual brown hue or those blackened portions at times I see in some other lechons. 
A perfect highlight of a feast prepared specially for the event by Fresh Start Organics and together with the other specialties in the menu (which I'll be blogging about later), it was a very special luncheon made even special by the diverse groups people whose common goal is to share whatever there is, whenever, wherever through the power of blogging.
And of course, who can forget this scene - a slim pig snacking on lots of greens!