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Van Rack
Van Rack This is the white stretch limo that my wife drives down to Adams Slaughterhouse each week with piggies in the back and a chest freezer in the middle for picking up last week’s batch of meat. What’s different … Continue reading
Foodies, Farmies & New Rewards
Ben & Hope’s Next Cartoon Info Graphic (Click to Zoom) I am a Farmie. There, now you know. I confess.
What Good is a Pig: Cuts of Pork, Nose-to-Tail
Archimedes Pork Cut Chart (Click to Zoom) We raise pastured pigs on our Vermont farm. To better get our pork to our customer’s fork we’re building our own on-farm USDA inspected butcher shop. This past month and until May 15th … Continue reading
New Kickstarter Goals: The Abattoir
New info graphic cartoon from Ben & Hope showing our progress. (zoom) Thanks to all of you we are now more than half way from our original goal $25,000 goal for the butcher shop to the $30,000 red line that … Continue reading
Great Forbes Article on SMF Kickstarting the Butcher Shop
Check out the great article by Beth Hoffman of Forbes Magazine who pins the point that nano-scale meat processing could be the game changer for farming.
New Rewards: Roaster Party Packages
On our Kickstarter Project several people have asked about getting suckling pigs, oven roasters and larger spit roastable pigs. The answer is yes, and the smaller sizes can ship and are even cookable in an oven making them wonderful for … Continue reading
What’s Next – Phasing the Butcher Shop
Phases of the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm (Click to zoom) Now that we have reached our 100% funded mark on Kickstarting the Butcher Shop the obvious question is, “What’s next?”
100% Funded Info-Graphic
100% Funded Cartoon Info-Graphic (Click to Zoom) Ben and Hope have prepared another one of their colorful cartoon info-graphics to celebrate breaking through the $25,000 funding mark! Thank you, everyone! Several people have asked, “What next?” “What will we do … Continue reading
100% Kickstarted!
Big Pig on Pasture Whoa! How can that be?!? Two people pushed us over the $25,000 full funding point within seconds of each other! Me thinks they were both trying to be the $25,000 funder. What fun! What to do… … Continue reading
CISPA: They’re Back!
Just when you thought it was safe… The black booted jacks are back in the capital trying to trample on our freedoms again: CISPA—the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act—would cut a loophole in all existing privacy laws allowing the … Continue reading



