Atticus Farm

Atticus Farm, a restoration agriculture farm near Woodstock NY.

12/08/2023

We've been a little quiet on the socials, but we have exquisite pork for sale. All cuts plus Italian and Breakfast sausage. Reach out to schedule a pickup at the farm or we can deliver!

Address

558 Watson Hollow Road
West Shokan, NY
12494

Telephone

+18452170834

Website

http://Www.atticusfarm.com/

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About Our Pork

Delicious acorn finished, heritage breed, ethically raised pork! Our goal with everything we do is to raise pigs to the highest quality eating standards. As it happens, this pursuit of excellence has led to some wonderful side benefits.

Breed

We work with a heritage hog breeder who has developed a line of heritage Duroc and Hampshire cross pigs. The Duroc pig breed is famous for it’s excellent meat quality, which can have even more marbling than the famed Berkshire (also known as Kurobuta in Japan). The Duroc pig was originally developed in Saratoga County NY in 1823. Hampshire pigs are known for their excellent foraging ability and their heavy muscling and we’re originally developed in North England and Scotland before being brought to the US in the mid 1800s.

The combination of these two breeds by our breeder (a former Joel Salatin intern!) has led to animals that do extremely well on pasture and in the woods.

Feed

Our pigs eat a widely varied diet, as they are moved to new areas of our woods weekly. In addition to foraging many fallen acorns, grubs and grasses (the way pigs eat in the wild), we supplement their diet with a custom-blend of locally grown non-GMO legumes and grains, with a heavy emphasis on barley and field peas. There is NO SOY in our pigs diet, and we do not feed any corn to pigs for several months before slaughter.

We developed our custom feed as a way of getting back to the meat quality before confined animal feeding operations ruined the flavor and texture of pork. Barley has been known for hundreds of years as a way to improve the quality of pork, with oats and field peas to balance out the diet. You will notice the difference in the firmer fat and a pleasant nutty smell.

Welfare

We believe happy pigs make the best pork. Our animals live outdoors their entire lives, are never isolated or kept in cages that prevent movement, and are encouraged to root, wallow and generally have a grand old time. Often visitors to the farm are surprised that even 250 lbs pigs will come running down the mountain for head pats and scratches: our pigs have positive experiences with humans so that they are not stressed at all when they are handled.

A note on how to recognize good animal welfare: If you would like to open up a lawn chair and drink a couple of glasses of wine while you watch your animals, then you have good animal welfare. No normal person enjoys watching a hen in a battery cage or a sow in a farrowing crate, or a steer wading in its own excrement. Well as it happens we finish almost every day on the farm sitting by a fire and doing exactly that. We hope you enjoy our pork as much as we’ve enjoyed raising it for you!