Sugar Mountain Farm has been in the news time to time. Here are some links to articles about us and our farm from newspapers, magazines, TV and other media around the world…
May 14th, 2012 – Mother Earth News magazine publishes Walter Jeffries’ article What Good is a Pig.
May 7th, 2012 – Kristen Michaelis of Food Renegade wrote an article A New Way to Finance Farms? featuring Sugar Mountain Farm and the journey to fund construction of our on-farm USDA inspect meat processing facility.
May 6th, 2012 – The Sunday Valley News Business & Money section covered the successful 100% funding of Kickstarting the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm.
May 5th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm was featured under the title “Piggy Bank” in the Saturday, Talk of the Town section of the Times Argus newspaper.
May 4th, 2012 – TV station WCAX’s Judy Simpson talked about our on-farm butcher shop’s successful funding on Kickstarter in her news story “VT Farm Gets a Boost by Crowdsourcing”.
May 3rd, 2012 – Jill of Real Food Forager interviewed Walter Jeffries of Sugar Mountain Farm about the family’s homesteading and how it led to the development of their sustainable farm that pays the mortgage in Home on the Range: Featuring Sugar Mountain Farm.
May 2nd, 2012 – David Gumpert of The Complete Patient wrote about our successful funding project in Kickstarter Offers Enterprising Farmers Something They’ve Never Had: A Straightforward Way To Raise Money For New Projects.
May 1st, 2012 – Forbes Magazine journalist Beth Hoffman wrote about our on-farm butcher shop being “an industry game changer” in Local Meat Butchering Goes Nano.
April 25th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm’s Kickstarting the Butcher Shop project was featured on Vermont Public Radio‘s on Vermont Edition with Nina Keck at 12:35 pm. It was repeated at 7:35 pm. On the web as text at VPR.
April 24th, 2012 – Kathryn Flagg of Seven Days newspaper has been writing a series of articles about local meat processing here in Vermont. In Meat Repeat: Another Vermont Farmer Looks to DIY Butchering she discusses the adventure our family has been through to bring on-farm butchering to Sugar Mountain.
April 23rd, 2012 – Columnist David Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph wrote a featured column Pig Farm Turns to Web for Financing about our farm’s Kickstarting the Butcher Shop.
April 17th, 2012 – DartBeat, the Dartmouth College blog, wrote about Sugar Mountain Farm and pastured pigs.
April 15th, 2012 – Journalist Maggie Cassidy of the Valley News wrote a feature article on the front page of the Sunday Business Section Kickstarting the Slaughterhouse with photos by Sarah Priestap.
April 14th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm’s Walter Jeffries was the featured guest on Food Chain Radio, a national program about food by host Michael Olson on the program “To Buy a Fat Hog“: “Farm animals have been taken off the farm and confined in industrial facilities controlled by a few large corporations. Given this control of the nation’s food chain, we ask… Will we be allowed to eat the neighbor’s food? Topics include how animal agriculture became concentrated in the hands of a few; why those few are threatened by the family farm; and whether we will be allowed to eat Sugar Mountain Farm’s pasture fed, free-roaming, farm-processed foods.”
April 12th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm’s Kickstarting the Butcher Shop was featured on HomeGrown.org.
April 9th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm’s Walter and Hope Jeffries appeared in the Times Argus newspaper in the feature article Family of farmers ‘kickstart’ new butcher shop by Daniel Staple with photos by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur.
April 9th, 2012 – Rutland Herald newspaper article about our farm and Kickstarter project.
April 6th, 2012 – Walter Jeffries is a co-author of and photographer for the University of Vermont publication “Guide to Financing the Community Supported Farm: Ways for Farms to Acquire Capital Within Communities” which was funded in part through a SARS grant.
April 4th, 2012 – Farming Magazine wrote about about our farm, butcher shop and Kickstarter project.
April 2nd, 2012 – WCAX Reporter Judy Simpson visited Sugar Mountain Farm and report West Topsham Pig Farmer Expands Online on the Six O’clock evening news discussing our Kickstarter project.
April 1st, 2012 – Sugar Mountain’s Kickstarter project was covered on Nature’s Harmony DreamCast on Farm Dreams web site.
March 30th, 2012 – Coverage of Sugar Mountain Farm at the Weston A. Price Foundation.
March 29th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm’s Kickstarter project was discussed in the Burlington Freepress newspaper.
March 29th, 2012 – Discussion in Grudge Enforcement at The Complete Patient by David Gumpert.
March 20th, 2012 – Elliot Wise of Ethical Plate at University of Iowa on debunking the myth that confinement pigs are parasite free.
March 7th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm meat label cited as “the best business card [the presenter] had ever seen” at seminar on marketing by Regional Food Systems Workshops in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada.
April 4th, 2012 – Sugar Mountain Farm, Walter Jeffries and Kickstarter came up for discussion at The Complete Patient.
December 23rd, 2011 – Passing on the Cookie Tradition by Walter Jeffries appeared in the Burlington Freepress newspaper’s Food under the Savore section where we shared one of our traditional family cookie recipes and talked about passing on the traditions of cooking.
October 3rd, 2011 – Beth Hoffman on Hacking the Food System: New “Technology” in Agriculture in Food & Technology Connection.
October 2st, 2011 – Sugar Mountain Farm’s Lemon Meringue Cupids recipe appeared on Food Renegade.
September 23rd, 2011 – Sugar Mountain Farm hot dogs for Sunday brunch at the Chubby Muffin in Burlington as featured in Mellisa Pasanen’s Burlington Freepress article A local burger a day in the Burlington area.
September 14st, 2011 – Alice Levitt write an article Sugar Mountain High in Seven Days newspaper.
May 1st, 2011 – Sugar Mountain Farm was featured as case study in the book The Complete Guide to Raising Pigs by Carlotta Cooper published by Atlantic Publishing.
April 1st, 2011 – The Open Source Ecology has chosen our on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop for inclusion in their project to promote low cost, sustainable, alternative technologies as an Open Source Butcher Shop.
March 11th, 2011 – Vermont Life Magazine has an article titled “The Trouble With Butchers” which features an interview with Sugar Mountain Farm’s Walter Jeffries as well as a photo of him and one of his littler pigs – one still able to be picked up and held.
March 1th, 2011 – Mentioned on the Gourmet Butcher. Check out master butcher Cole Ward’s DVD series of instructional videos for meat cutting. We apprenticed with Cole for 18 months to learn the art and craft of traditional commercial meat cutting. He is a joy to work with.
February 1st, 2011 – Rural Delivery of Country Magazines has an article from Sugar Mountain Farm. Not available online, yet. Link to come…
Styczeń (January) 23rd, 2011 – Polish Permakultura Workshop article “Jak przygotować pastwisko dla świń” which featured Sugar Mountain Farm. I link this here out of interest to see how someone so far away is doing something so similar. Incentive to learn to read Polish. Or see the English rough translation “How to prepare pasture for pigs?”.
January 1st, 2011 – Sugar Mountain Farm can be found in Wikipedia.
December 20th, 2010 – Sugar Mountain Farm was picked as one of the Top 100 agricultural blogs by the SR Education Group.
December 1st, 2010 – Sugar Mountain Farm was featured in the Onion Skin, the newsletter of the Onion River / City Market Coop in Burlington, Vermont.
November 1st, 2010 – New England Business Journals article “West Topsham pig farmer plans small-scale slaughterhouse” by James Askew.
October 31st, 2010 – eHow Concrete Bottle Wall how-to article.
October 5th, 2010 – Farming – The Journal of Northeast Agriculture Putting Pigs to Work article by Diane Wells about using pigs to renovate pasture featuring Sugar Mountain Farm.
September 10th, 2010 – Burlington Freepress Savore Section: “Sugar Mountain Farm works to get all it can from pastured pigs”
August 22nd, 2010 – Burlington Freepress Sunday Green Mountain Section: I Believe…
August 18th, 2010 – WPTZ-TV Reporter Jill Glavan visited to interview us about our Big Project and reported it in her story “Solving the Slaughterhouse Problem” which is also on her video blog and YouTube.
August 12th, 2010 – The Bridge Weekly ran a story Slaughterhouse and butcher shop being constructed at Sugar Mountain Farm in West Topsham about the butcher shop our family is building at our farm.
August 5th, 2010 – University of California, Mendocino/Lake Livestock & Range Topics Pen Ultimate Niche Meat Marketing
August 3rd, 2010 – WCAX-TV Vt. farm to build own slaughterhouse.
May 5th, 2010 – Nature’s Harmony “A tribute to those Who Inspire“.
April 28rd, 2010 – 7 Days Newspaper Pig Parade of pork from Sugar Mountain Farm pig at Chef’s Table in Montpelier.
April 23rd, 2010 – 7 Days Newspaper New England Culinary Students (NECI) make Snout-to-Tail Benefit Dinner from Sugar Mountain Farm pig.
February 1st, 2010 – Sugar Mountain Farm tomatillos photo appears in Heritage Farming book by Gary Paul Nabha from the Western National Parks Association.
January 2010 – Farm Show Magazine Sugar Mountain On-Farm Slaughterhouse in the Farm Show Magazine January 2010 issue.
July 1st, 2009 – The Daily Bite Hog Heaven Professor James E. McWilliams vs Sugar Mountain Farm facing the facts. The professor fails again.
April 30th, 2009 – FOX44-TV Pig Farmers Combat Misunderstanding about H1N1 virus.
December 31st, 2008 – Ten Links That Will Keep You Reading and Eating All Year Long” from Epicurious.com article by Ethan Book.
October 30th, 2008 – WCAX-TV Cooking up Sugar Mountain Farm bacon with Chef Michael Kloeti of Michael’s on the Hill restaurant in Waterbury, VT.
August 5th, 2008 – Wired Locavore urbanites engage in ‘cow pooling’ by Bruce Sterling.
July 25th, 2008 – NECN-TV Boston Pig Farming Hits New Highs in Vermont
July 22nd, 2008 – New York Times A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss by Kim Severson.
June 14th, 2008 – Times Argus Local Food Growers Deserve Our Praise
June 3rd, 2008 – Times Argus Eating Weeds by Lisa Harris.
March 19th, 2008 – Seven Days Newspaper This Little Piggie Stayed Home
March 11th, 2008 – Backwoods Home Magazine named Walter Jeffries of Sugar Mountain Farm one of the people who are Ten Real Inspirations
March 2008 – Gallio Awards Hot Dogs.
December 18th, 2007 – Dan Owens of the Center for Rural Affairs wrote “As is fairly obvious, there’s been a lot of anger here over this farm bill fiasco. And that’s cool, and I’m sure we’ll have more to express. But we can’t always be angry, even if we try. Yesterday I was going through the old RSS reader, which was a little backed up, and the anger just dissipated instantly. Why, you may ask? I’ll tell you. Because Walter Jeffries has the cutest damn pigs in the whole world. Even for us jaded, cynical observers, it is impossible to remain angry while looking at pictures of these pigs. So if you’re in need of a quick happiness fix, let me tell you what. Head over to the Sugar Mountain Farm Blog and take a look at these pigs. It’s like taking the cure. All your problems will be solved, and you’ll learn something too.”
November 14th, 2007 – Seven Days Newspaper Crop Circles about the USDA’s proposed and defeated onerous National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
May 30th, 2007 – BBC Whistle Blower television program about Supermarkets used my Pork Cut Chart at about minute 3:30.
April 13th, 2006 – Rodale Institute feature article Export-fueled national animal ID program raises many farmer objections with photo by Walter Jeffries of Big Pig from Sugar Mountain Farm and cartoon by Holly Jeffries.
October 18th, 2005 – Interview with Walter Jeffries of Sugar Mountain Farm by Kathleen Weldon at the Seasonal Cook.
Our Pork Cut Chart has appeared on a BBC television documentary, photos from our farm have appeared on Japanese science television shows. Over the years other photos and video footage have appeared in books, posters and banners of various non-profits, rock bands, art shows, US government publications, the Canadian government and media from other publishers.
Check out these Letters of Recommendation and see what our customers say about us.
June 1st, 1992 – And in a blast from the past: Inc. Magazine wrote about Walter Jeffries and his zany doings in their feature article A New Twist on Old Peanuts. Not related to pigs, pork or sheep but rather our old farm house and an innovative approach to recycled insulation.
