PORK: Factory pork, like commercial chicken, is grown under inhumane and inherently unhealthy conditions.These intelligent, curious and gregarious animals live out their miserable lives in huge sheds, confined to pens that intentionally don’t allow them to even turn around. Deprived of the chance to socialize, root, and otherwise pursue their natural inclinations, one might reasonably surmise such creatures suffer from depression. An unhappy animal is a stressed animal. Stressed animals don’t make good meat.

Our pigs are raised as nature intended, spending their lives roaming within a wooded pasture, shaded from the hot sun with mud to wallow in and all sorts of interesting things to root up and eat. They’re fed a varied diet of forage, garden gleanings and weeds, milk from our dairy cow, day-old bread and donuts, drop apples and such, augmented with a non-medicated custom-mixed grain ration. Pigs reach their market weight of around 250 pounds in seven to eight months. As a rule of thumb, 250 pounds of live weight pig dresses out to about 175 pounds of hanging pork which yields about 140 lbs of cut and wrapped meat.