It's getting close to blueberry season so I was searching for blueberry
farms in the Carolinas when I came across the following blurb about pastured
pork:

South Carolina
Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is proud to introduce to today's markets the
delicious flavor of the pastured pork that your grandparents knew and loved.
Our production is different from most other pig farms:

a.. Our pigs are allowed to roam freely, socialize, and engage in
instinctive pig behaviors such as rooting, wallowing, and foraging.
b.. Our sows are not crated. Instead they give birth naturally and express
their maternal behavior by building nests.
c.. We rotate our pigs through the pasture and the woods. The have free
access to water and feed in their paddocks.
d.. There are no animal by-products in our feed.
e.. No hormones or routine antibiotics are given to our pigs.
f.. Our farm has no waste issues, no waste lagoons. Manure is returned to
the soil where it builds fertility.
g.. Our pork is selected for a high percentage of intramuscular fat, like
a choice steak. Regular pork is dry and flavorless. Our pork is the other
RED meat!
Visit our website for more information or give us a call. We ship to most of
the southeast.

Website: http://www.cawcawcreek.com

Of course, the first thing I thought of was Q! Anybody have experience with
this kind of pork?

Scott Randolph wrote:
> It's getting close to blueberry season so I was searching for blueberry
> farms in the Carolinas when I came across the following blurb about pastured
> pork:
>
> South Carolina
> Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is proud to introduce to today's markets the
> delicious flavor of the pastured pork that your grandparents knew and loved.
> Our production is different from most other pig farms:
>
> a.. Our pigs are allowed to roam freely, socialize, and engage in
> instinctive pig behaviors such as rooting, wallowing, and foraging.
> b.. Our sows are not crated. Instead they give birth naturally and express
> their maternal behavior by building nests.
> c.. We rotate our pigs through the pasture and the woods. The have free
> access to water and feed in their paddocks.
> d.. There are no animal by-products in our feed.
> e.. No hormones or routine antibiotics are given to our pigs.
> f.. Our farm has no waste issues, no waste lagoons. Manure is returned to
> the soil where it builds fertility.
> g.. Our pork is selected for a high percentage of intramuscular fat, like
> a choice steak. Regular pork is dry and flavorless. Our pork is the other
> RED meat!
> Visit our website for more information or give us a call. We ship to most of
> the southeast.
>
> Website: http://www.cawcawcreek.com
>
> Of course, the first thing I thought of was Q! Anybody have experience with
> this kind of pork?
>
>

The first thing I thought was pigs foraging in the forest =>
trichinosis, so make sure you cook it well.

Scott Randolph wrote:

> It's getting close to blueberry season so I was searching for blueberry
> farms in the Carolinas when I came across the following blurb about pastured
> pork:
>
> South Carolina
> Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is proud to introduce to today's markets the
> delicious flavor of the pastured pork that your grandparents knew and loved.
> Our production is different from most other pig farms:
>
> a.. Our pigs are allowed to roam freely, socialize, and engage in
> instinctive pig behaviors such as rooting, wallowing, and foraging.
> b.. Our sows are not crated. Instead they give birth naturally and express
> their maternal behavior by building nests.
> c.. We rotate our pigs through the pasture and the woods. The have free
> access to water and feed in their paddocks.
> d.. There are no animal by-products in our feed.
> e.. No hormones or routine antibiotics are given to our pigs.
> f.. Our farm has no waste issues, no waste lagoons. Manure is returned to
> the soil where it builds fertility.
> g.. Our pork is selected for a high percentage of intramuscular fat, like
> a choice steak. Regular pork is dry and flavorless. Our pork is the other
> RED meat!
> Visit our website for more information or give us a call. We ship to most of
> the southeast.
>
> Website: http://www.cawcawcreek.com
>
> Of course, the first thing I thought of was Q! Anybody have experience with
> this kind of pork?
>
>
No experience barbecuing it, yet. I buy almost all my meat this way,
frozen, from some local farmers around Dallas. They share a stand at
the Farmers' Market here and I hit it every week or two. They aren't
really aimed at the barbecuer market so I would have to special-order a
whole butt, say, or an untrimmed rack of spare ribs. Also the
butchering varies wildly so I think I would have to get a deepfreeze and
buy primal cuts and then break them down to the cuts I want. Maybe next
year...

Anyway for just plain cooking pastured meat is INCREDIBLE. It costs
about as much as the meat at Whole Foods but it is better by a long
shot. We get mostly whole chickens, ground beef, and pork chops, now
and then a steak, and we've also gotten lamb and goat and it's all been
GREAT. The steaks at whole foods are about as good but they can't touch
any of the other products. Also EGGS good lord you won't believe it.
The flavor and texture of all these products will make you realize why
the old folks gripe about how the food doesn't taste like it used to.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 12:26:29 -0500, john clark >
wrote:

>Also EGGS good lord you won't believe it.
>The flavor and texture of all these products will make you realize why
>the old folks gripe about how the food doesn't taste like it used to.

My SIL brings eggs from free-range chickens when we go camping. I
can't say I notice a whole lot of difference in the taste, but the
visual appeal is outstanding. Bright orange yolks.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?"

"Scott Randolph" > wrote in message
.. .
> It's getting close to blueberry season so I was searching for blueberry
> farms in the Carolinas when I came across the following blurb about
pastured
> pork:

Pisgah National Forest has some huge groves of wild blueberries on the
Shining Rock area.

> Of course, the first thing I thought of was Q! Anybody have experience
with
> this kind of pork?
>
>

Raise two each year. This year they are named Pork Chop and BBQ. We also
raise chickens for both meat and eggs. Only pork I've had that tastes
better is wild sow.

> Pisgah National Forest has some huge groves of wild blueberries on the
> Shining Rock area.

Do you know how I could find out more info on these? Or do I just show up
with a bucket <vbg>

Before kids my wife and I would drive up 321 towards Boone and pick up the
Blue Ridge Parkway. We'd head south all the way to Asheville, stopping on
the roadside to picnic. To end the trip picking wild blueberries would be an
ideal two day trip for us.

But, it's not quite the same now that we have three kids under the age of 6!

> Raise two each year. This year they are named Pork Chop and BBQ. We also
> raise chickens for both meat and eggs. Only pork I've had that tastes
> better is wild sow.

I have a need to try me some of that pork! Now to find some (without
spending $250)