September Babies just hours old.
Our pigs are born and raised on pasture.
Piglets born early Spring 2009, running around and exploring.
Piglets
Rendering Lard
Home rendered lard is not only great tasting, but very good for you. We
rendered our lard and then canned it. Here is our lard, ready to be cut up in chunks and placed in the large stainless pot:
We used an outdoor turkey fryer to heat and melt the lard. It takes about 3-4 hours to render the lard into a clear liquid with cracklings.
We scooped out the crackings (to be used for various recipes) and poured the hot lard into sterile jars. You can either refigerate, or can as shown below: