PORK NOW AVAILABLE!
We now have gourmet pork available at the farm! Roasts, chops, Italian, Polish or Sheboygan brats, ribs, ground breakfast-spiced pork, smoked ham, and smoked hocks, and bacon. Call or email to get more details and to arrange a contact-less pick-up. Most cuts are $15 per pound; bacon is $18 per pound; hocks and ribs are $12 per pound, which pays for fair labor, pasture maintenance, certified organic grain feed supplements, and happy pigs raised slowly over 18 months (conventional pigs are raised for only six months). Brats, bacon, and ground pork are in roughly one pound packages. Roasts and half hams are roughly 3-6 pounds (nice sizes for a couple). Whole hams are roughly 8 to 10 pounds (enough for a family of four).
We also take orders for wholes or halves for October, 2023 delivery. Click here for more information about ordering a whole or a half. In June we also sell feeder pigs and registered breeding stock. Call us to find out more!
By buying this meat, you are helping fund our efforts to rebuild this threatened breed of pigs. Only the best animals go on to renew the breed, while the others live a happy life with one bad day; their rich, highly flavored meat nourishes us. Our pigs are pastured and given a supplement of 100% certified organic grain. Read on about how the pigs are an essential part of our farm's ecological sustainability!
OUR AMERICAN GUINEA HOGS ARE A KEYSTONE SPECIES ON OUR FARM
Animals are an essential part of the agroecosystems of most fully diversified, environmentally-conscious farms. If you eat meat, seek out farms that integrate animals into all processes of the operation. At Elsewhere Farm, our pigs provide many beneficial services:
Full Cycle Fertility: bedding from sows and their litters becomes mulch for the market gardens in the early spring; grazing pigs spread their own manure in the orchards in the early season. The pigs eliminate our need to buy fertilizer off the farm, saving the energy of transport and processing.
Carbon Sequestration: research on our farm shows MUCH higher levels of organic matter than surrounding hayfields and woods. As the pigs graze and feed the soil with their manure, we are actively mitigating climate change.
Perennial Water Protection: because our pigs graze on pasture, we can maintain a perennial landscape; less soil disturbance means less erosion and water pollution. Pig manure is naturally incorporated back into the farm, keeping nitrates and other pollutants out of the watershed
Pest Control: pigs nosing about in the orchards disrupts the life cycles of insect pests that would otherwise make organic orcharding very difficult.
Bird Buddies: The pigs are our mowing machines, allowing us to do no mechanical mowing in the orchard until August... critical to protecting ground nesting birds on our farm.
Promoting Pollinators: The pigs' grazing also promotes a rich understory of plants in the orchard that helps provide refuge for pollinators after the spring bloom of apples, pears, and cherries.
We now have gourmet pork available at the farm! Roasts, chops, Italian, Polish or Sheboygan brats, ribs, ground breakfast-spiced pork, smoked ham, and smoked hocks, and bacon. Call or email to get more details and to arrange a contact-less pick-up. Most cuts are $15 per pound; bacon is $18 per pound; hocks and ribs are $12 per pound, which pays for fair labor, pasture maintenance, certified organic grain feed supplements, and happy pigs raised slowly over 18 months (conventional pigs are raised for only six months). Brats, bacon, and ground pork are in roughly one pound packages. Roasts and half hams are roughly 3-6 pounds (nice sizes for a couple). Whole hams are roughly 8 to 10 pounds (enough for a family of four).
We also take orders for wholes or halves for October, 2023 delivery. Click here for more information about ordering a whole or a half. In June we also sell feeder pigs and registered breeding stock. Call us to find out more!
By buying this meat, you are helping fund our efforts to rebuild this threatened breed of pigs. Only the best animals go on to renew the breed, while the others live a happy life with one bad day; their rich, highly flavored meat nourishes us. Our pigs are pastured and given a supplement of 100% certified organic grain. Read on about how the pigs are an essential part of our farm's ecological sustainability!
OUR AMERICAN GUINEA HOGS ARE A KEYSTONE SPECIES ON OUR FARM
Animals are an essential part of the agroecosystems of most fully diversified, environmentally-conscious farms. If you eat meat, seek out farms that integrate animals into all processes of the operation. At Elsewhere Farm, our pigs provide many beneficial services:
Full Cycle Fertility: bedding from sows and their litters becomes mulch for the market gardens in the early spring; grazing pigs spread their own manure in the orchards in the early season. The pigs eliminate our need to buy fertilizer off the farm, saving the energy of transport and processing.
Carbon Sequestration: research on our farm shows MUCH higher levels of organic matter than surrounding hayfields and woods. As the pigs graze and feed the soil with their manure, we are actively mitigating climate change.
Perennial Water Protection: because our pigs graze on pasture, we can maintain a perennial landscape; less soil disturbance means less erosion and water pollution. Pig manure is naturally incorporated back into the farm, keeping nitrates and other pollutants out of the watershed
Pest Control: pigs nosing about in the orchards disrupts the life cycles of insect pests that would otherwise make organic orcharding very difficult.
Bird Buddies: The pigs are our mowing machines, allowing us to do no mechanical mowing in the orchard until August... critical to protecting ground nesting birds on our farm.
Promoting Pollinators: The pigs' grazing also promotes a rich understory of plants in the orchard that helps provide refuge for pollinators after the spring bloom of apples, pears, and cherries.
