Real Meat

Posted on Wednesday, August 14th, 2019 @ 21:06 by Walter Jeffries

Real Food Comes from the Sun.
Grows in the Ground.
Is Eaten by Animals.
Who make Real Meat Real Good.

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Roaster Pig Available 47 lbs

Posted on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 @ 13:44 by Walter Jeffries


Oven, Butterfly & Spit Roasters

I have a 47 lb roaster pig available now in my on-farm butcher shop cooler. $5/lb + $65 USDA kill so $300 picked up here at the farm.

Roaster pigs are available in all sizes. Prices range from $4 to $6 per pound depending on size. Smaller pigs cost more per pound as do very large roasters do to difficulty in handling. See the Roaster Page for details on other sizes up to 200 lbs can be ordered with a three week lead time.

Smaller sizes are shippable up to about 40 lbs or so – typically $100 to $200 for shipping depending on weight.

You can pickup at the farm or get delivery along our weekly route n Vermont for $15. I-89 from Barre to Montpelier, Plainfield, Hardwick, Stowe, Burlington, I-91 from Bradford to Brattleboro and also up to Hardwick and Cabot.

Contact me at walterj@SugarMtnFarm.com to order.

I also make porchetta rolls and easy carve pigs where the bones are removed except the skull and foretrotters for presentation – available head off if you prefer and then the roast is sewn and tied for cooking in an oven, on a spit or grill. This is a flat $200 price. A very elegant and delicious centerpiece for family reunions, wedding and other gatherings.

Outdoors: 82°F/62°F Sunny
Tiny Cottage: 69°F/65°F

Daily Spark: I come from a large family. Eight kids including one foster sister. Politically correct liberals would make derogatory comments to my parents and say things to the effect, “Don’t you know about contraception!?!” My parents would reply, “Oh, yes, we figured that out after #7! We switched from a plastic cup to paper cups in the bathroom. No more babies!” The joke, on the nasty person, is that BOTH of my parents are not only doctors but family physicians and have delivered thousands of babies as well as talked to probably tens of thousands of young people about birth control. My parents simply liked having a large family. I agree.

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How to Cook a Planet with Encryption

Posted on Friday, July 19th, 2019 @ 19:19 by Walter Jeffries

On Jul 18, 2019, at 6:02 PM, Dawn C. wrote:

Walter,
Why does your website warn me about an invalid security certificate when I go to your website?
Thanks!
Dawn Carroll

It’s not my website doing the warning but rather your browser.

The powers that be want everyone to switch from HTTP to HTTPS which uses encryption. That wastes a little more electricity every time you browse a web site causing the overall temperature of the planet to rise because your computer’s CPU and the web server CPU both must encrypt and decrypt the messages.

Any single instance of this is insignificant. But here is where it gets interesting… Hundreds of trillions of HTTPS connections a day should cause a 6.7°C† rise in worldwide temperatures by the year 2050 completely offsetting all efforts to reduce global warming.

Of course, it is not a conspiracy, it is just idiocy on the part of the powers that be (Google, etc). Web sites like mine do not need security certificates or encryption. Forcing it down our throats just wastes CRU.

Dumb.

-Walter

†Don’t ask me where I get these numbers. Sometimes, just for the hell of it, and to offset all the good science I offer, I just make up a number. Scary part is that when I do that I’m usually right.

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Little Bird Magic

Posted on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 18:23 by Walter Jeffries

Little bird, little bird…

When I came in the house after work this evening I heard a soft sound, almost like water dripping. I finally found it, there was a little bird up in the cottage front loft trying to fly out the window and beating it’s wings against the screen. I think it was a young sparrow. I gently caught it and carried it down the ladder and then outdoors.

Then I did a magic trick for the dogs who were watching me carefully… I showed them my empty hands signing “all-gone / empty / nothing” and then gently flung my hands up and away from me… Presto! A bird appeared out of nowhere and flew away. The dogs thought that was very funny!​ They can be quite easily amused and are a great audience.

The dogs open and close the doors to go in and out of the cottage and I think that occasionally a bird follows them in. This has happened before. The birds tend to go to the light which makes them easier to catch and release back into the sky where they belong.

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Roaster Pigs Available

Posted on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @ 00:01 by Walter Jeffries


Oven, Butterfly & Spit Roasters

Roaster pigs are available in all sizes. Prices range from $4 to $6 per pound depending on size.

Smaller sizes are shippable up to about 40 lbs or so – typically $100 to $200 for shipping depending on weight.

You can pickup at the farm or get delivery along our weekly route n Vermont for $15. I-89 from Barre to Montpelier, Plainfield, Hardwick, Stowe, Burlington, I-91 from Bradford to Brattleboro and also up to Hardwick and Cabot.

Contact me at walterj@SugarMtnFarm.com to order.

See the Roaster Page for details on other sizes up to 200 lbs can be ordered with a three week lead time.

I also make porchetta rolls and easy carve pigs where the bones are removed except the skull and foretrotters for presentation – available head off if you prefer. A very elegant and delicious centerpiece for family reunions, wedding and other gatherings.

Outdoors: 66°F/49°F Sunny
Tiny Cottage: 66°F/65°F

Daily Spark: The past guides the future through the present.

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SMF Bacon on a Stick by Berdas at Champlain Valley Fair

Posted on Friday, August 24th, 2018 @ 23:59 by Walter Jeffries


Berda’s at the Fair

Each week we supply Berda’s Restaurant (on Facebook) in Essex Center, Vermont with our famous uncured dry rub maple bacon which we make with real Vermont maple syrup and Berda’s features in many of their delicious dishes. Very tasty!
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Wanted: A Few Good Bitches

Posted on Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 16:05 by Walter Jeffries

Kavi watching from on high.

Our large pack has six generations and almost 30 years of history guarding and herding our livestock, protecting our animals from local predators, eating small pests like mice and living the good life here on Sugar Mountain. We are looking for one or two good young bitches to join our pack to enjoy the good life and mother the next generation – pups, adolescents or adult ladies.
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New USDA Inspected Brochure

Posted on Sunday, June 17th, 2018 @ 21:25 by Walter Jeffries

With our upgrade on May 1st to USDA Inspected I’ve spent some time upgrading our brochures, order forms and other literature to reflect our change in inspection status. Here’s the new brochure.

I’ve also been working on getting our more complicated recipes and accompanying labels approved. Labels that make claims, such as “Uncured Bacon” for example, are required to go through the FSIS LSAS approval process at the USDA. So many acronyms!
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Demo of Bacon, Salt Pork & Sausage at City Market South in Burlington

Posted on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 12:00 by Walter Jeffries


Demo of Bacon, Salt Pork & Sausage at City Market South

Today we’re doing a demo and tasting of our dry rub uncured Maple Bacon, Salt Pork & Sausage at City Market South in Burlington, Vermont. Come on by and taste the bacon!

Outdoors: 41°F/68°F Sunny
Tiny Cottage: 66°F/59°F

Daily Spark: Oxygen is like chocolate. It isn’t necessary but it sure makes life more pleasant.

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Whole & Half Pigs Available

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 @ 12:45 by Walter Jeffries

Walter's Pork Cut Chart
Pork Cut Chart
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Week we have a slot available in our pig butchery schedule for doing a whole or half pig. If you are interested in filling your freezer with delicious pork butchered right here on our farm drop me an email at WalterJ@SugarMtnFarm.com for details. You can find a copy of the cut sheet online. You can also order online using PayPal or a credit card on the Quick Order Page.

Pickup is available at the farm or on our weekly delivery route around Vermont up and down I-89 & I-91.
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