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Lush Green Pasture

Pasture raised meats are much better for the environment and our health. It sure helps that they taste amazing too. Recent studies show that pasture raised meats of all sorts have significantly healthier fats, vitamins and minerals. These health benefits don't appear by magic: they are because the animals graze and eat the green actively growing grass.

It is hard work rotating pigs every few days to fresh green grass. They love to dig up the field! While others think a factory style barn filled with hay or an outdoor concrete slab counts as 'pasture', we don't.

Truly pasture raised meats are healthier and tastier, but taking even a little shortcut will spoil the effort.

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No Drugs

Zero. Ziltch. Nada. We never use any type of growth drug... Ever. Raised on lush pasture, our animals are healthy and never would require routine antibiotics like most others which are raised in unsanitary conditions. It takes a little longer but its better for the animals and it’s better for you.

I was amazed to learn that 70-80% of pork now uses the growth drug Ractopamine to speed up growth. This drug is illegal in 160 other countries. What's worse, that pork is still marketed here as 'hormone free' and their use of the drug isn't disclosed. The grocery staff probably don't even know!

This really is a big deal, these drugs are residual in the meat itself and banned in almost every other country for good reason.

All the extra time we invest means our pork costs a just little more. We think you'll agree it's worth it.

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Organic Grains

It costs 2-3 times as much for us to use organic feed. When we started out farming, I couldn't believe how hard it was to just find organic feed to buy. Every local feed source was conventional GMO based.

I always assumed my nice local farmer at the market obviously use organic grains. It turned out that almost every small local farm uses conventional grains (even if they are 'non-GMO') because it is just so difficult and expensive to source organic grains on a small scale.

Organic Is Healthier

Recent studies show that organic fed meats are in fact healthier than their conventional counterparts. Not just because the meat is free of toxic GMO chemicals. We always use organic or transition organic grains in our hog feed. When we find a farmer who is converting her farm over to organic, we love supporting them by buying the transition grains. These grains are raised 100% to the organic standard, but their farm just isn't certified yet.

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Heritage Breeds

Most breeds of pork available today are from fast growing breeds. This is cheaper for the farmer to raise but can be dry and tasteless.

You'll notice a difference with our pork right away. Heritage breeds grow slower and produce meat that is outstanding. It is not 'white', in fact the higher quality the pork chop, the redder the color.

Pasture is a large part of what our hogs eat, but we also use mostly small grains like wheat, barley and split peas. We never use soy and rarely (almost never) have any corn in the ration. This makes for a flavorful pork unlike anything you've had before!