Pastured Pork from Pastured Pigs

Remember how grandma used to make the best tasting pork dinners?  Well, there’s a REASON factory farmed pork doesn’t have the taste of yesteryear…  it’s been breed out of the pigs in favor of super size and growth speed when raised in confinement.  Pork raised away from nature just doesn’t taste, well, natural!  Isn’t it time to switch to sustainable pork that tastes the way nature intended it?

Welcome back to the real taste of real pork

Putting pigs in a natural environment requires pigs that understand nature.  The pastured pork process starts with heritage breed genetics that know how to root, forage and farrow in open spaces.  From that know how these heritage breeds produce some of the best tasting pork you have ever had.  Our pigs come from an eclectic background including prominent genetics from the Gloucestershire Old Spot, the Tamworth and the flavor prized Berkshire breeds.  We have chosen a mix of those older breeds hoping to capture the best traits of all of them.  After all, pastured pork is all about letting the pigs be pigs.

Purchasing Pastured Pork

Hogwarts School of Charcuterie @ Chicken Thistle Farm

Our young pigs were grown and finished on pumpkins, pasture, hay and whey in early December.  The pigs were processed locally at a USDA approved facility.  If you are interested in trying some of our delicious pastured pork simply contact us regarding availibility of cuts and pricing.

Our current gilt (unbred female pig) and boar (intact male pig) are getting along “very well” and we are expecting our first litter of on-farm piglets in early May!  Ordering delicious pasture pork will begin in mid-Summer.