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Our pigs live low-stress lives enjoying the freedom to exercise a full range of their normal behaviors including rooting, scratching, preening, wallowing, and taking sunbaths. They will also turn the soil hunting for roots and trace minerals, and helping to improve the pastures that nurture them. Unlike sheep, cattle and other grazers, pigs can’t survive on pasture grass alone - so ours have free access to a custom feed ration containing rice hulls, sorghum, chopped corn, and soymeal but never any antibiotics or hormones. In the growing season, our pigs also eat fresh greens from the pasture and the weeds gleaned from our vegetable gardens.

We have chosen the best blend of heritage and modern breeding pigs for this pastured life. These pigs bring the great baconator heartiness and red flop ears of the Duroc to the long-loin, fast growing Lancaster to produce a cross with the best of both worlds. Since they’re red or dark brown, these pigs tan in the Arkansas summer sun (unlike pink factory pigs), produce the copious bacon and pork chops that we all love, and grow, grow, grow.

Because of the opportunity to exercise in the fresh air, the meat produced by these contented pigs has a more rosy color than the pork many people find in the grocery store. In all other respects, it is behaves in the kitchen just like other pork, except of course for the healthy, succulent flavor. Also, because our pigs live out of doors and on pasture, our pork is rich with natural antioxidants from forages and sunlight. None of our products ever contain MSG, nitrates or nitrites, or any other fillers and chemicals- just healthy pork and spices you would recognize.

Retail Prices

Find our pork at Certified Arkansas Farmers' Market in North Little Rock and through the Conway, Arkansas Sustainability Network, and Certified Arkansas online markets. Bacon and smoked ham are only available with orders of whole or half hog.

  • Bone-in loin chops (2 or 4/pkg) - $7.50/lb
  • Blade steaks - $7.00/lb
  • Spare ribs - $6.00/lb
  • Country Style ribs - $6.00/lb
  • Picnic/shoulder roast - $6.00/lb
  • Bone-in loin roast  - $8.00/lb
  • Boneless fresh ham roast - $7.00/lb
  • Whole fresh ham, bone-in - $40/each
  • Loose Sausage (original, jalapeno, or hot) - $6.00/lb
  • Unrendered lard - $5.00/lb

Wholesale Prices
  • Whole hog - $700
  • Half hog - $375
Each half or whole hog order includes 60-130 lbs of meat, (depending on the size of the animal and the butchering options that you choose), butchering to your specifications, smoking of hams and bacons, and transportation to/from the butcher. 
 
Note: bacon and smoked hams are only available with orders of whole or half hog.

Ordering

To order lean, flavorful, homegrown pork call Katie: (501) 215-0419 or email katie@farmgirlfood.com or visit one of the Locally Grown online markets: