From Monday 13th of September we will be turning out our piggy wiggies for this year’s Pannage season!!

The National Park’s free-roaming ponies, cattle and donkeys have now been joined by several hundred of our unique Pannage pigs – domestic porkers turned out every autumn to feast on the forest’s fallen acorns, beech mast and chestnuts.

Every year Pannage dates are decided by the Court of Verderers, who sit in their own ancient courthouse in Lyndhurst, the New Forest’s ‘capital’. The timing varies a little every season, dependant on the progress of the acorn crop and this year you’ll be able to spot pigs at Pannage until Sunday 14th November, when they are all recalled for the winter (unless the season is extended further)..