Marquam Creek Farm/ Chicken Bacon Ranch

10/19/2025

The two latest litters of IPP piglets are are sold. We will be breeding Ginger, Fiona, and Dolly to Jethro soon for spring litters. If all goes as planned, we will have feeders and maybe some breed quality piglets ready late April to early may timeframe. Get on our wait list now! Spring litters sell out fast! I already have reservations for 14 piglets.

09/22/2025

08/29/2025

Dolly finally released her hostages. She's obviously been pretty close the last couple of days and would have sworn she was in labor several times over the last couple of days, but later she would be up and grazing. Finally yesterday she started nesting and last night she had 15 babies! All born alive ,but i found one dead this morning that probably had been layed on and there's one tiny runt that probably won't be able to compete and won't make it. Its not uncommon in large litters to have a couple that don't survive.

08/27/2025

Fiona had a litter of 8 last week and now its Dollys turn! Get on the list now to reserve your IPP piglet, either a feeder piglet to take gome and raise for your freezer or a registered gilt or boar to start tour own breeding operation. I can help to find a suitable pairing from another breeder and bloodline.

08/27/2025

Incoming!

07/15/2025

We have a litter of Ginger (h1422) snd Jethros (i4021) IPP piglets that will be ready to go to new homes next week. We are also expecting litters from Fiona (i3458)/Jethro (i4021) in mid August and Dolly (j3676)/Jethro (i4021) in mud September.

Message me soon to get on the waiting list. They go fast. Its not uncommon to have an entire litter reserved before they are even born.

07/09/2025

We have too many goats! Our 4 Nigerian dwarf does had a total of 12 babies, 6 does and 6 bucks. They have all been de-horned and the bucks have been banded. They are up to date on their shot and have been dewormed. We are selling them at clearance prices! They are purebred, but unregistered Nigerian dwarf. I have a clean herd and the buck and all of the does are on-site.

They are 12 weeks old and their mom's have pretty much self weaned them and they are out grazing with the herd.

Does $150
Wethers $100

05/09/2025

It didn't take long for the babies to figure out their new playground!

04/28/2025

Copied with permission from SageWind farmstead.
"Why is pastured pork priced higher than the grocery store?"

This is a question I get sometimes because our pork has a higher price point for most cuts than what most people are typically used to seeing in the grocery store, or even what they're used to buying from a local commodity producer.

All of the pork you will find in the grocery store is raised in confinement operations. These are closed to the elements facilities where pigs can more easily be managed in mass. These hogs are raised on concrete, in small areas with little to no ability to engage in natural behaviors. They are bred to grow to market weight by 6 months of age and eat a diet meant to put on weight quickly.

Our pastured pork is grown out on 24/7 access to a pasture seeded with alfalfa, turnips, clover, rye grass, millet, and chickory. They are fed a diet of locally milled grain, tons of garden vegetable surplus, and hay. They take 8-10 months to reach market weight by comparison. Our pigs are allowed to forage and wallow and we use them in regenerative practices here on our land.

Grocery store meat when compared side by side with pastured pork is leaner, more pale and has significantly less marbeling than the pastured pork alternative. Fat is flavor in cooking, and any chef worth their weight in the kitchen will tell you that good marbeling is what they're after. Because pastured pigs are able to walk around and forage the resulting meat is a deeper red with more flavor due to the fat content of our pigs. Our pastured pork also has higher nutritional density (vitamins E, D and selenium) than conventionally raised pork.

Quite simply, pastured pork is an entirely different product than conventional pork. It takes more time, labor and money to grow out, but we believe that process is worth it- and so do our customers. There is definitely a need for both (it is difficult to mass produce pork on pasture and we have many people in the world to feed) but we are happy to have found our niche here in the pastured pork world and to provide it as an option for our community.

We hope you try out our meat and see why we are so passionate about what we do here at SageWind!

04/16/2025

It's baby season at Marquam Creek Farm! We have 24 day old chicks in a brand new brooder I built. 12 layers with various egg colors; light and dark brown, and some Easter Eggers with pink, green and blue eggs! They won't be laying for another 5 months or so. We also have a dozen heritage meat chickens. The breed is dark cornish.

4 of our Nigerian dwarf does are due in the next 2 weeks. Our #1 girl, Lili is due this Thursday. She consistently has 3 or 4 babies and she looks it.

And a new addition to the farm; New Zealand white meat rabbits. We have 4 does and 3 are due in the next few days. If you've never had rabbit, your missing out. It's a delicious mild white meat that is very lean and healthy.

2 litters of baby pigs have come and gone to their new homes, but our original IPP sow, Ginger is due in about a month.

03/03/2025

The breakfast bar is open at Dolly's house.