piggery

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Dormant since 1985, the distillery recently announced it would reopen, and build the region’s first “whisky resort,” complete with a spa, a five-star hotel and a bistro housed in a former piggery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

Webb and colleagues later analyzed the landscape around dozens of domestic piggeries and found a strong association between transient wetland expansion and piggery infection—a link at least partly explained by the proliferation of mosquitoes.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 21, 2023

Asilo and his family have survived for decades off the proceeds from his vegetable farm, piggery, coconut grove and on-and-off work as caretaker of a nearby gravel and sand quarry.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys