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Only a few Pastured Pork Bundles remain!

To save on storage and handling costs we are offering a 20%+ discount on our remaining Pastured Pork Meat Bundles!

Price is all inclusive—No additional cost for processing.

Free local delivery.

✅ Consistently Moved to Fresh “Woodland Pastures”

✅ Raised and Handled by Certified Humane Standards

✅ 100% Locally Raised and Grown

✅ Finished on Native Tree Nuts and GMO-Free Grain

❌ No Growth Hormones or Stimulants, Including Ractopamine (Banned in >160 Countries but Used Widely in US Pork)

❌ No Antibiotics

Grab yours before they are all gone!

https://www.woodside-farms.com/foodsales/pastured-pork

Order Online Now! Get Incredible Deals on the Best Grass-Fed, Grass-Finished Beef, Pastured Chicken, Eggs, & Woodland Pork Illinois has to Offer!

10/12/2022

Pastured Woodland Pork coming soon to a table near you!

We have 10 hogs out of the timber and headed to the butcher this week.

Half and Whole Hog Meat Bundles will be available for pickup or free local delivery by November 1st.

As always—raised outdoors, on consistently fresh pastures, supplemented with GMO-free grain, and no growth hormones or antibiotics, ever.

For questions or orders you can reach us at our website, by phone, or direct message here.

Interest free payment plans available on the website as well.

We appreciate your business!

www.woodside-farms.com

309-259-0177

10/11/2022

Clean water is absolutely necessary for the health of our livestock.

In appreciation of the holiday yesterday, we thought it would be honorable to explain the connection we see between early civilization and modern problems in livestock production.

As Jared Diamond points out in his book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” Europeans were able to conquer the world largely because of their immunity to Western Diseases.

They gained immunity to these new diseases by living in cities without proper sewage systems, in which their drinking water was severely contaminated with human waste.

Many people died before these immunities developed.

That is why it was so common and necessary to drink alcoholic drinks at every meal back in the day. The alcohol would kill or weaken *most of the harmful bacteria in the water.

When colonialists from these areas came to indigenous lands, the indigineous peoples’ immune systems had never seen the extremely mutated and harmful bacterias developed in those cities and could not fight them off.

When any animal lives in and amongst its own f***s, diseases are created that are indefensible to their system, where illness and/or death is likely.

Modern medicine has the ability to assist in defending these illnesses, and is why we see such heavy use of them in modern agriculture.

We choose to address the cause of these issues instead of the symptoms.

Contaminated water (and air) is one of the biggest causes of livestock diseases.

Fresh, clean water means less disease and illness.

Better condition and feed conversion on our livestock.

Less emergency antibiotic use, and therefore less antibiotic resistance, including in the human populace.

Ultimately, all of these things result in increased ROIs on our farm as well.

It’s truly a win win win.

Modern tools like these continue to increase the efficacy of addressing the cause(s) at the source.

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10/06/2022

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10/06/2022

Angus McIntosh, a livestock farmer at Spier, recently hosted an information day during which he discussed the importance of ‘outdoor’ livestock production for the future of food security.

10/04/2022

When you leave for work vs. When you get home from work.

These two pictures were taken in the same spot last Tuesday.

We tore down an old granary and burnt the remains after removing the metal roof.

Fire spread to a large brush pile that ultimately sent an ember to the barn.

We LOVED this old barn with its unique characteristics but the truth is the basement wall is falling in and it was becoming a danger to use.

Through the hard work of all the Fire Departments and Emergency Responders we kept our animals and personnel safe.

It’s really an amazing thing to see 20+ strangers show up to your farm within minutes to help with a crisis.

Most of these individuals are volunteers and took away from their already busy lives to help us without question.

We have nothing but gratitude and appreciation for these teams.

Thank you!

Good Hope-Sciota Fire Protection District
Blandinsville Fire Department
Emmet-Chalmers Fire Protection District
Macomb Firefighters Local 3053
McDonough County Sheriff's Office