We choose the animals we raise with a great deal of care and consideration. Sustainability being the long term goal - Berkshire pigs are just another way in which the sustainable model works. To read more about Berkshires - check out the link to Hobby Farms. There is everything that we too believe about Berkshires and why we will raise them for your family.
Berkshire pork has been compared to Kobe beef the gold standard in the beef industry.
We think there is something absolutely perfect about a heritage breed that cannot be mass-produced because it does not thrive in a caged environment or crated its whole life. A gift to both the farmer and the consumer, a pig that tastes better than other typical market pork. These pigs are made for pasture raising, are excellent mothers, unrivaled marbled meat without growth hormones and an animal worth the time it takes to raise them.
But don’t let us decide for you - join us and you will find the same delight at your own family’s table!
Fun Things You Might Not Know About Pigs
- Did you know that pigs have a palette? They have likes and dislakes. Woody (our sow) likes salted peanuts in the shell, whole fresh eggs, fresh warm milk from the cow, any sort of seafood, cranberry sauce, refried beans, pumpkins, fresh garbonzo beans, and of course free grazing on fresh alfalfa. Woody does not like bagged, manufactured pig food, onions, citrus, uncooked carrots or potatoes. This is of course just examples. There are many more likes and dislikes.
- Pigs can shell peanuts and eat a whole fresh egg without spilling a drop of yolk or egg white. Well ok, Woody can do this, it takes a while for the young pigs to learn this trick but they always do.
- You can teach a pig tricks. Our pigs will sit like a dog for peanuts.
- Pigs love to have their bellies scratched. They will fall over like a dog as a matter of fact.
- Pigs are true ominvores-they love to graze on fresh green grass and alfalfa, root up vegetables, earth worms and grubs and they also like to eat meat.