Pasture Raised & Organic Fed Pork - Bulk Pork - "Whole and Halves"

Bulk pork is available a la carte. Simply browse our website offerings, add the products you would like to your shopping cart, and use the discount code "Bulk5" for a 5% discount on orders over $450.

The website inventory is updated live. If we are sold out of something on the website, chances are that we really are sold out in real life. To raise exceptionally healthy, nutritious and delicious hogs, we raise them during the pasture season only, butchering in late Fall after the growing season, so inventory is typically replenished each December.

We used to offer half or whole hogs where the customer would "purchase" a live hog from the farm, months later we would take it to the butcher, the customer would provide cutting instructions for the butcher, we would provide an invoice for the customer, the butcher would provide a separate invoice for the customer, the customer would pay both parties and pick up the pork from Oshkosh. Too often, something was lost in translation or a step was forgotten or an expectation was unmet. We are making it simple - buy exactly what you want, when you want it, directly from Farmcraft, and have your order delivered to your home or pick it up from Farmcraft. Spend over $450, the approximate price of a half hog, and you will receive a 5% discount, the same average savings of buying a half- or whole-hog.

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About Farmcraft Pork:

Farmcraft Pork is flat out delicious, wholesome goodness. The taste of Farmcraft pork reflects the entire journey of the animal, from birth to plate. Every detail of its life— birth outdoors on organic pasture, nurturing care from its mother, diverse pastures and meadows to roam and forage, weekly moves to fresh and clean pastures, nutritionally diverse organic feed to enjoy, copious sunshine and fresh air, a complete abstinence from all pharmaceuticals and vaccinations, plenty of space for rest yet plenty of herd mates for social interaction, gentle handling and humane processing—all contribute to the exceptional flavor of Farmcraft pork. This is pork as it is meant to be, with generous marbling of sweet, tender fat and rich red meat that bursts with flavor and nutrients.

Organic-fed is exceedingly rare for pork. It's expensive to feed pigs organically, but it's the only way that we find acceptable. Our pigs live outdoors exclusively, year round, and they naturally thrive with zero vaccinations, antibiotics or other pharmaceuticals, and no agricultural chemicals like pesticides or herbicides. Instead of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, we use pasture rotation. Every week during the 8 months of summery weather, the pigs are moved to a fresh and clean pasture of living green vegetation. The clean environment and the minerals and vitamins of fresh living forage keep them vitally healthy and make for nutritionally packed pork. During the 4 months of wintery weather, the pigs have wide-open 24/7 access to both a dry straw-bedded hoop house and to a winter pasture paddock to continue to dig, forage and sunbathe through the winter months. During the winter, the pigs are also fed the previous summer’s high quality clover and alfalfa hay. This keeps up their forage intake and provides a stored source of pasture vitamins and minerals. In addition to pasture forage and hay, we provide a mix of fresh milled certified organic grains and minerals - generally organic corn, organic whole ground soybeans, organic wheat, redmond salt, calcium carbonate, sea kelp. Our geography is well suited to produce these organic grains, and the combination of the feed and pasture provides robust good health to the pigs and produces a delicious and nourishing pork.

It requires significant labor to keep sows and boars, to provide an environment for mama pig to raise her piglets, and to move the pigs through the fresh pastures each week. But it is a worthwhile labor to take care of our beautiful pigs and to produce a truly exceptional and unique product. Farmcraft pork is as wholesome and ethical as anything in the world, and chock full of vital energy, nutrients and savory flavor.

Fill your freezer with the best to nourish you and yours!

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Bulk pork is a la carte. But if you are wondering how a half- or whole-hog breaks down, here is a typical breakdown, assuming a typical whole Farmcraft hog butchered at 280 lb, hanging 200 lb, and with take home cuts of about 120 lb:

-25% or 30 lb loin - bone-in pork chops, rib roasts

-25% of 30 lb ham - bone-in smoked hams, fresh hams

-20% or 24 lb belly - 18 lb fresh belly or 14 lb smoked bacon, 6 lb spare ribs

-20% or 24 lb shoulder - bone-in shoulder roasts, pork steaks

-10% or 12 lb sausage grind - can be more if any of the above are contributed toward grind - plain ground, breakfast links, breakfast patties, natural casing wieners, brats, italian brats