Pork

Pastured Pork - Available in bulk or individual cuts year round, 

• Bulk buying is the most economical way to stock your freezer, and feed your family, giving you lots of selection to cook from.

• 10 lb Variety Pack’s are a great option for freezer limited folks, or for those who just want a sampling. $65 farm pick up price (may include roast, bacon, chops, ground, and/or hocks)

• Shop for cuts our online store at www.thefarmerstable.ca Bulk delivery available to Regina, Saskatoon, and towns surrounding the Lanigan/Watrous area. Go to order form to see price list.

• We also sell pork to The Pig & Pantry Butcher Shop in Saskatoon. Go support them! You won’t be disappointed.

• Our pork can also be found at Cornerstone Bar and Grill, and The Wandering Market in Moose Jaw.

Our Pigs - eat a varied diet of pasture forage and locally grown non-GMO grains, which is coupled with sunshine, exercise and plenty of space. Unlike cattle, their digestive system limits their ability to digest fiber, and so they also need the nutrition from grains, Pigs will eat just about anything, grains, grasses, roots, insects, grubs, garden scraps, and household food scraps, and so are able to forage for about half of their diet in the summer.

They continue to live outdoors in winter and burrow into bales to sleep or warm up. Not only is it living on pasture healthier for the pigs in providing a rounder diet and healthier for us since their meat is richer in micro-nutrients, particularly fat-soluble vitamins E and D, as well as higher in minerals, but they also have much less exposure to disease and their bodies have a strong immune system than their indoor counterparts.

We allow piglets to suckle for a longer period and give sows a longer rest time in their breeding cycle than industry practices, plus we allow them a longer life. These practices and diet creates superior pork, more flavorful, more nutritionally dense, and more environmentally responsible than conventionally raised pork.

Happy, healthy, top quality, delicious pork.

What You Need To Know To Buy In Bulk

When our pigs are ready for sale we either send them to the abattoir, or our local butcher (Model Meats in Watrous) who comes out to the farm to slaughter the pigs in their stress free home, quickly and humanely. (this is our preference when not being resold in stores or restaurants.)

You then get to choose the specifics of your cuts, like more or less sausage, packs of chops of 2 to 6, smoked hams or not, etc. We’ll walk you through all the options to best suit you needs and eating preferences.

Prices:

Total Cost = Hanging Weight x $3/lb + butchering fees (~$1.50/lb)

Hanging weight, or dressed weight, is the carcass as it would hang in a butcher’s cooler -the pigs weight after slaughter without organs, skin or head, and about 70-75% of the live weight.

Due to moisture loss and the removal of some bones and fat, the amount of meat you take home is reduced by about another 20%.

Half Pig - approx. 85 lbs (Hanging weight of one side)
Packaged up – approx. 70 lbs of meat
Cost of Pork - $255
Cost of Butcher Fees - $130 - $200*
Total - $385 - $455

Whole Pig - approx. 170 lbs (Hanging weight of 2 sides)
Packaged up – approx. 136 lbs of meat
Cost of Pork - $510
Cost of Butcher Fees - $255 - $400*
Total – $765 - $910

*Butcher fees are on average about $1.50/lb on hanging weight. They vary depending on amount of processing. The cost is higher with more processing like bacon, ham, sausage or curing.

If you wish to do the butchery yourself, you may do so. The slaughter-only fees are approximately $40/animal.

For those who would prefer to have pork with the skin on (scalded) -as some chefs prefer- the abattoir will do that with slaughter, but the price breakdown would change due to the change in hanging weight.