LAMB - PORK - BEEF -CHICKEN
PASTURE RAISED DURING THE GROWING SEASON
PORK
Reserve your custom cut whole or half pig by Friday September 20, 2024.
Pork will be ready for pick up in mid October 2024. Looking ahead, pigs will be available again in Spring 2025.
Details below, or check out this google doc.
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During the growing season, pigs are raised outside in woodlot and converted pasture where we feel they have adequate and healthy access to sunlight, shade, and dirt, and all the space and freedom to behave as pigs will. We rotate them on an every other week basis, and in addition to the grasses, plants and roots they happily forage for, they are fed organic milk and whey from our dairy, organic waste vegetables from the market garden, and non gmo grain from Morrison's Custom Feeds in Vermont.
In winter, Milkhouse pigs are raised in a deep bedded pack system with access to shelter, sunlight, food, water, and all the space and freedom to behave as pigs will. Their winter feed is hay and baleage made on the farm, organic milk and whey from the Milkhouse creamery, root vegetables, and non gmo grain from Morrison's Custom Feeds in Vermont.
As for the final product you receive, the pork is custom cut to your specifications (it is also possible to have pork state inspected for re sale), vacuum sealed and frozen. We aim to grow these pigs so their hanging weight comes to about 200 pounds (there can be quite a range from about 180-240#, so you can specify if you'd like a larger or smaller pig), which translates to 120-140# of meat for your freezer from a whole pigs, or about 50-70# of meat from a half pig. A whole pig requires about 5 cubic feet of freezer space, and a half pig occupies roughly 2.5 cubic feet, which is the standard size of a refrigerator freezer. Keep in mind that the volume of whatever meat you choose to have smoked is reduced by about half in the smoking process.
The cost is $5.25 per pound of hanging weight, with a $1.75 additional cost per pound for any meat you choose to have smoked. Nitrate free smoking is also available, also at the additional cost of $1.75 per pound. These additional fees are charged if the pigs are processed at Herring Brother’s Butcher Shop.
Reserve your pig as soon as possible! We'll email you a cut sheet, and the pork can be picked up from the butcher, West Gardiner Beef, or from the farm in mid October.
Email for pricing on 25#, 50# or custom quantities . Pork boxes custom packed to your specifications. Can include ground, bacon, sausage, stew, bones, steaks, roasts chops etc.
BEEF
Certified organic beef. Steers raised on all organic feeds, primarily grass, silage, and hay.
16# boxes of ground beef (made up of individual pound packages) always available in our farmstore. $152 per box.
Email for pricing on 25# or 50# quantities of beef. Beef boxes custom packed to your specifications. Can include ground, stew, bones, steaks, roasts
LAMB & MUTTON
From Verdure Farm. Currently in the farmstore:
ground lamb
stew lamb
lamb shanks
Reach out to Heidi farmherheidi@gmail.com for info and pricing on bulk quantities of lamb & mutton
TURKEY & CHICKEN
From our farm friends at Grace Pond Farm in Thomaston
Certified organic, pasture raised.
Chicken parts and whole chickens are available frozen in our farmstore year round.
Turkeys are available for Thanksgiving, but reserve one well ahead, they go quick.
Email gracepondeatlocal@gmail.com to reserve a bird, or call ahead to the farmstore to check on chicken availability.