Pasture Raised Pigs

Natural Pork

We are currently sold out of our pasture raised pork and are not raising pigs, this year.

Our pastures are rich in alfalfa, clover, and grasses.

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One of our favorite meat cookbooks: (on Amazon)

The Complete Meat Cookbook

Pasture Pigs

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:

The finished cooled product shown below:

Living with their fellow farm animals.

Here are some on their are on the first day

Our Sows