OPEN PASTURES, NO HORMONES, NO ANTIBIOTICS
Heritage pork, pasture-raised with care for exceptional flavour, tenderness and quality.
We raise Large Black pigs, a rare heritage breed originating in England and renowned for the exceptional quality of its pork — particularly its bacon. Large Blacks produce beautifully tender, richly flavoured meat with fine marbling that helps keep the pork naturally moist and succulent as it cooks. Their deep, complex flavour has made this heritage breed a favourite of chefs, restaurants and people who simply appreciate outstanding pork.
They are also wonderfully suited to life on pasture. Their black skin offers greater protection from the sun than many lighter-skinned breeds, they are excellent natural foragers, and their gentle, amiable temperament makes them a delight to have on the farm. We love our pigs, and we want them to have a very good life.
Our pigs are free to root and roam through our fields and woodlands, running, playing, digging, exploring and basking in the sunshine. Their pasture provides a constantly changing natural buffet of grasses, roots, leaves, worms, grubs and insects. We supplement their foraging with high-quality, Non-GMO feed that is free from corn, soy and canola, ensuring their nutritional needs are fully met.
Our pigs are raised without added hormones or routine antibiotics, on land farmed without herbicides, pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.
We also allow our pigs time to grow and mature naturally. Rather than pushing them toward market weight with grain-heavy feeding programs, we raise them slowly on pasture and let the breed develop the way nature intended. That slower, pasture-based approach, combined with their heritage genetics and varied diet, contributes to the beautiful marbling, rich flavour and exceptional eating quality of the finished pork.
Pasture-raised. Slow-grown. Heritage pork worth savouring.
Our pigs are born on pasture, and pasture is where they stay.
They spend their lives running, rooting, playing and exploring. Raised the old-fashioned way, never as part of an industrial system.
An Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for Dinner
The Large Black pig nearly disappeared in the 1960s, largely because the breed was poorly suited to intensive, industrial pork production.
Its future has been helped by something wonderfully simple: renewed interest in heritage breeds and pasture-raised pork. As more farmers raise Large Blacks — and more people seek out their exceptional meat — the breed has a reason to survive and thrive.
In 2015, the Large Black moved from Critically Endangered to Threatened conservation status. Sometimes, preserving a heritage breed means giving farmers a reason to keep raising it.
Or, as we like to put it:
Sometimes you have to eat something to save it.
We only tell our customers that part. Not the piggies.
Our Happy Pigs, Busy Grazing in Their Pasture
HAPPY Pigs are DELICIOUS Pigs!
For Pork Orders or Pick Up and Delivery Options
Our mobile “Farm Stand” brings our farm fresh, free range eggs to to select locations in the Lower Mainland. Some of our pastured pork cuts and some of our specialty meats, like our fabulous pork jerky, are also available through this service. Some cuts are in limited supply and sell out quickly. Please email us or call 604 417-7507 to find out what is currently available and to find our mobile “Farm Stand” locations and dates.
