I have a 30 lb oven roaster pig available fresh for $245.
Delivery available along our weekly route or pickup at the farm.
If you would like the pig can be deboned leaving just the fore-trotters and head in for presentation and stuffed with your choice of sausage and meat to make an Easy Carve oven roaster pig. $400.
Figure 1/2 lb per serving for the bone-in regular oven roaster or 1/4 lb per serving for the Easy Carve.
If you would like this pig or would like to reserve another for an upcoming event email me at walterj@sugarmtnfarm.com.
Today from 11am to 4pm we are doing a demo and tasting of our new porchetta pork rolls at Village Market in Waterbury, VT (map). Come check it out!
Free Meat on the Vermont State House Lawn!
On Wednesday, October 4th we’ll be giving away free meat on the Vermont state house lawn. The Agency of Agriculture is having a fair to show off local food producers and we’ll be there. We’ll be handing out free samples of our meat for you to try at home.
Make Your Own Homemade Bacon!
As I discussed back in July I’ve been doing a lot of bacon making this past year. In fact, 64 different test batches of bacon as I adjusted ingredients, aging time, cook times, cutting and more to produce the perfect bacon. After testing with friends and family, then store managers and a few chefs I introduced our new dry rub maple bacon to a small number of retail stores in July. It’s been a great success. But, the one thing that wasn’t working was the label.
If you’ve been following my blog for long, or even not so long, you know that I do a lot of work in the genetics of our pigs, maintaining multiple breeding lines, selecting for more teats, ribs, longer legs, bigger shoulders, good temperament and about three dozen other criteria. What you probably didn’t know about was my pigs with improved handling characteristics like the one shown above that comes with built in side handles which are very handy during sorting and moving pigs around the fields.
I have two roasters at 39 lbs ($299) and 41 lbs ($311) available now. These are shippable at a cost of about $100 to $150 additional. Contact me at walterj@SugarMtnFarm.com to order. See the Roaster Page for details on other sizes up to 200 lbs can be ordered with a two week lead time.
Today I received the official letter from the USDA verifying for federal inspection at our on-farm butcher shop assigning us our Establishment Number and Frontline Supervisor.
This spring Ben and I built a new granite unloading dock for the farm. It allows a tractor trailer truck to backup to a stone slab wall out by the gate. Then I can easily unload pallets from the truck bed using the forks on our tractor. This makes a huge difference because when the forks are up high they have a reduced capacity. By raising the tractor up to the bed level of the trailer our tractor can lift over a ton.