Showing posts with label heritage pigs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heritage pigs. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Butcher Shop

Our friends at The Butcher Shop in Eagle Point have remodeled the store front and with local farmers in mind have a Re-Grand Opening scheduled for April 30 to show off the new lay out, display cases, and local farmers.


We are excited to be one of the farmers doing business with The Butcher Shop. They are a family owned business, they offer old-fashioned recipes in their smokehouse for nitrate and nitrite free curing of hams and bacon. They also make about 30 different kinds of sausage. The Butcher Shop is committed to promoting a sense of community through locally produced and processed meat and vegetables in the Rogue Valley.


Visit us out at The Butcher Shop on April 30, we will be taking orders for our latest run of heritage breed, pasture-raised pork that will be ready in late August.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Pigs are Coming!


A new batch of little Tamworth piglets are on their way to the farm and set to arrive in April. These little Irish heritage pigs have long snout and red hair. Hey, they sound Irish already! The barns are ready for the new visitors and the grass is growing greener by the day.

We prefer our piglets to stay with the sow until they are about 8 weeks old. This gives them a solid healthy start and we all know the piglets prefer their mamas! Once they arrive at the farm, the little weaner pigs will have full access to the green pastures, left over sunflower seeds from the summer, and black walnuts.


We are having some amazing Spring weather. The sun is shining and then it is raining, the fog is heavy and then the winds are blowing. All of this weather is the change of season, and all of the moisture is good for the pasture, the fruit trees and the water table.