This upcoming year, our pastured pork business will become a much more serious endeavor.  We have retained 7 gilts and procured a Berkshire boar to breed them to.  Berks are known for their dark, marbled flavorful meat!  We will be breeding the girls starting on December 2^nd and hope to have our pigs the last week of March and the first part of April… This would make the pigs ready for harvest the latter part of October and into November. 

The gilts will be farrowed in individual huts out in the woods, no farrowing crates or confinement.  The family groups will pasture the woods during the year, eating mulberries, apples, and acorns and grazing the grassy areas while being supplemented with corn.  Based on our results with our purchased pigs this year, this should result in a superior eating experience!  Pigs for harvest will be priced at $250 for a 250 lb pig or better with you paying the processing and picking it up at the Brook Locker.  We should have around 40 available if everything goes as planned.  Please send me an email well in advance so that we can reserve your pig for you for next fall. 

The pigs are really enjoying their freedom and liberation from the confinement system that they came from, they enjoy rooting around, and being out in the woods and with 16 acres to roam around, they can be pigs!  So let me know in advance your needs for next year.  

Here are some of the baby pigs that were just born... We are farrowing in ehuts in the barn and it has gone very well.  Our 6 gilts have produced 54 pigs and with no crates or preconfinement of the sows.  Take that industrial agriculture!  These pigs will stay in the barn running around on deep bedding until May probably and then out into the woods.  The mothers are some of the pigs pictured on here last fall.  

See these pigs and other pictures on our Meadow Oaks Farm grass-fed beef page on Facebook.