9/26/24

We have a pig available for the November butcher date with meat ready after Thanksgiving. Whole, half or 20 pound box. Can also take special orders for smoked or not smoked hams, loin roasts, or……….

DELICIOUS HEALTHY HAPPY

NUTRITIOUS SUSTAINABLE

We believe that to be healthy and produce delicious meat, pigs should be raised naturally outdoors as much as possible, they need to have their feet and snouts in the ground to be healthy.

We now purchase our piglets from local farmer friends after many years of breeding our own. We keep our number of pigs we raise low as they can be hard on the land.

We now raise our pigs from spring til winter, outoors on pasture or in the woods, always with plenty of space to be pigs. We use electric net fencing to keep them from roaming the neighborhood. Our pigs are fed a diet of locally sourced grains, veggies from our market gardens, hay and whatever they find it their grazing area. We do not feed our pigs waste bread or spent brewers grains.

We put alot of time an effort into raising healthy pigs outdoors, our pork is not inexpensive because we put quality time and food into them.

We use Kelley Meats a USDA inspected facility to process our pork. It is flash frozen, vacuum packed and labelled. Nitrates are used minally for food safety in the smoked items. They do not offer a no nitrate option so if this is a concern of yours for whatever reason then consider not having some items smoked and cured then do that part yourself. We do not use any other butcher at this time.

WHOLE - HALF - 20 POUND BOX

We take orders for our pork starting in the spring for fall orders.

Whole and half REGULAR pricing is $4.95 a pound by hanging weight plus butchering fees when you pay with a credit or debit card.

The Cash/check discount price is $4.75/pound by the hanging wt plus butcher fees when you pay with a debit or credit card.

Weights: We try to have our hanging weights on pigs to be in the 200 pound hanging weight for Wholes so a 100 pound for a half. But they do vary alot and the genetics can be exceptional growers and some are average. We schedule our butcher dates for 2024 in the fall of 2023! YES a year ahead of time in order to get the dates we want that line up with when our friends who breed the pigs will have piglets in the spring. So……

We estimate that on a 100 pound hanging weight half pig the cost to be around $470 if you have the cash discount price and the butcher fees are NOT included, they range from $160-$200. I have a breakdown on the butcher fees at the bottom of the page.

So a half pig could cost around $630 with the butcher fees and NYS sales tax is additional.

here is some examples from last year

Half Pig: 97 pound hanging weight had $164 butcher fees with a pretty typical cut order with smoked hams, bacon and sausage along with the other cuts. The total cost was $625 (half)

Another example: Whole 288 pound had $430 butcher fees. The total cost was $1798 (whole). If this was a half at 144 pounds it would have cost about $900.

So you can see there can be a range on costs to you BUT you get ALOT of the best pork around that has been hand raised OUTDOORS in small groups (they are often the same litter in a group) on a small local family farm with care that allows them to be happy healthy pigs in a natural environment and not in a massive climate controlled with tens of thousands of others. Plus we use a small local independent owned USDA inspected butcher that we have been with close to 20 yearrs.

You will taste the difference, we have since we first started raising pigs and have serious trouble eating pork not raised the way we do and processed like our butcher does.

A deposit of $400 per whole or $200 per half is due at ordering.

You can click on the green button to pay the deposit online with a card or call/email the farm with your order then you can mail a check to get the cash discount price.

We have openings for 1 in our October date and 2 for our November date. You can order a whole, half or 20 pound box. If you don’t see what you want when you go to order online,reach out to us and I’ll double check to see what’s available.

info@creeksidemeadowsfarm.com. or my cell is 315. 720 2141

If Half pig is too much consider our 20 pound mixed cut box.

20 POUND MIXED CUT BOX

$275 total cost

This is similar to what a 1/4 pork would be but since it’s difficult to divde a half pig equally into in half we have come up with this 20 pound option that gives you a good variety of cuts to enjoy and should fit into the freezer part of a refrigerator.

Smoked Ham steaks, smoked bacon, center pork chops, country ribs or spare ribs (our choice of which) , a roast (either a boneless loin or a pork butt again our choice ) ground pork and sweet italian sausage- some times we can do hot italian instead so ask about that option. $100 deposit with remaining $175 due at pickup.

BUTCHER FEES for Whole and Half Pork

$10 Rendering per whole. &. $75 processing (cut & wrap) per whole

Smoking 95 cents/pound

Sausage casing $1.85/pound. &. Sausage bulk $1.00/pound

Little links $2.75. & Ground pork 75 cents/pound

Extra boning $2.50. Slicing per piece $3

*****Prices from fall 2023. Pricing is subject to change***