Frequently Asked Questions

When a butcher custom processes an animal for you, they need to know how you want it broken down. They fill out a cut sheet to record your choices.

Different parts can be cut different ways. For instance, the loin can be made into pork chops or loin roasts. You get to choose how much loin you want made into roasts and/or chops. Same with the rest of the pig, you get to choose if you want: smoked and sliced bacon or fresh pork belly... how much of the animal you want ground... if you want any of the ground meat made into sausages... if you would like your hams smoked... It's completely what YOU want.

Our butcher is very good about walking customers through the process if they have never done it before.

That depends on how big your actual hog is and how you have it processed, but to be safe you should plan on 3.5 cubic feet for a half hog or 7 cubic feet for a whole hog. In many cases it will take less space.

Yes. You may opt to butcher a whole hog purchase yourself and save the butcher processing fee. Please contact us and we can work out details.

Our pigs eat a lot of forage in the summer, hay in the winter, dairy by products, and non gmo grain. We do not give them food scraps that contains harmful ingredients that I would not feed my family.

See this blog post:

https://www.betweenthetreesfarm.com/post/feeding-my-pigs-soy-free-is-for-the-benefit-of-my-customers-not-my-bottom-line

1. To buy pork on farm, come Monday - Saturday, 9 - 5, to the dairy which is the red building beyond our log cabin. Let yourself in through the left door, and again through the next door. This will put you in the Milk Room. You will find a freezer in the milk room with cuts of meat. Select the cuts of meat you want.

As you face the door that you came through, you will notice a black box to the left of that door, this is the payment box. There are receipts and a pen in the box. Write down the cuts of meat you took and their weights x the price per pound, and calculate the cost for that cut of meat. Add up your purchase and put the white copy of the receipt with your payment in the slot of the payment box. Alternately, you may pay by venmo. There is a venmo code to scan above the payment box. If you pay by venmo, please still fill out a receipt and note on it that you paid by venmo.

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2. To buy pork at the Newport Farmers' Market (Saturdays 9 - 2, May - October),

a) just show up and purchase whatever is available, or...

b) if you want to make sure that I bring and reserve for you exactly the cuts that you want, fill out this form by 10:00 a.m. Friday morning, the day before the market. I will calculate your total and send an invoice for you to pay by Friday evening. Pay it online. The next day, all you have to do is show up at the market and claim your order. Easy!