Organic Pork Box

For the last four years, my partner Ben has been running an organic market garden, growing around 30 different vegetable crops. Farming is never easy, but vegetable farming is especially difficult. Between our thick clay soils, salty bore water, and the fact that everything was done by hand—planting, weeding, harvesting, and selling—it became clear that it just wasn’t viable long-term.

In the final year of the market garden, Ben brought home three pigs to help deal with all the unsold produce such as zucchinis, tomatoes and leafy greens that came back from the farmers’ markets. What started as a practical solution quickly grew. Over the last year, those three pigs turned into a small, thriving herd… and now, we’re processing our second batch of pigs.

In conventional farming systems pigs and poultry are sadly among the most intensively farmed animals in the world. In many systems they are treated more like machinery than living animals. Confined to small uncomfortable spaces in sheds with no fresh air, grass or sunshine.

We do things very differently.

Everything we do is a slower, more natural process and one that feels right to us, like sprouting ceritifed organic grains and sowing crops for our pigs to forage. They love to spend their day free ranging on the lush green grass and lazing in the sunshine.

Our pigs live on pasture, which is surprisingly rare. We’ve chosen a heritage breed of Pig called English Large Black for their ability to forage on pasture and slow growth rates. Unlike the more common pink commercial breeds that are not suited for feeding on pasture, grown in sheds and fed a formulated diet for fast growth rates.

We’re incredibly excited to share our pork with you. We know it will reflect the life these pigs have lived—clean, natural, and as close as possible to how they would exist in the wild.

You can support us by buying a box.