Certified Organic Meat
Considerations when ordering meat:
- We do not have freezer storage capabilities here. Please take this into account when placing your order. You will need to pick up your meat on the slaughter date or one day after.
- All our animals are fed certified organic grain and make use of as much range as is possible, for their health and for maximum farm fertility.
Meat Chickens
We've sold out of chickens for 2008. Please check back in 2009.
We will have two batches of 200 meat chickens available this year: August 3 and October 19 (we're sorry, but we're sold out of chickens for the October 19th date). We use Kosher Kings, a barred rock/meat cross and Freedom Rangers, another fine variety that is good on range. Meat chickens average 6+ lbs and will cost $5.00/lb if you order 1-9 birds or $4.50/lb if you purchase more than 10 birds. They live in portable outdoor pens that are moved to new grass every day.
Due to a state regulatory technicality, our chickens, turkeys and geese are certified organic if you buy them before slaughter, but not after. There are no processing plants certified for resale of birds in Massachusetts, therefore consumers must purchase the birds live so we can have them processed at the plant on your behalf. We are totally comfortable with the cleanliness, efficiency, and humane technique used by our processing plant and stand completely behind their work. You end up with a cleaned, whole bird (with giblets and neck).
Pigs
Our pigs, which are rotated around our fields every two weeks in order to have fresh access to range, will have unlimited access to certified organic grain. They will be slaughtered at Adams Farm, which by fall will be newly rebuilt and USDA certified. At this point they have not applied for compliance as an organic facility (they had this certification before the fire), so we cannot technically market the pigs as certified organic though they will arrive her as piglets and leave here for slaughter as certified organic. We don't know the slaughter date but will give you ample notice of the date. (It will be sometime in the fall).
A whole dressed pig should weigh approximately 125 lbs and cost $6.25/lb (this is red meat only, not fat back, liver, heart, feet or head, which you can have for $3.50/lb - which ever pieces you want). If you order a whole or half pig, we will contact you later for details about how you would like the meat cut.
For smaller than half pig purchases, red meat cuts will be $7.00/lb. There will be no smoked or cured meat available this year.
Lard
We sell locally and also ship frozen lard in recycled quart containers to customers. Lard costs $15/quart. We ship lard 2nd day FedEx in insulated boxes so that it arrives at your door still frozen. The boxes are sized to contain 1-4 quarts. We charge $5.00 for shipping supplies per box. The FedEx shipping charges vary by weight and location. Some rates from last year: 4 qts. to PA - $19.91; 4 qts. to CA - $38.15; 2 qts. to Boston - $13.68.
- 4 quarts to Pennsylvania - $19.91
- 4 quarts to California - $38.15
- 2 quarts to Boston - $13.68
Turkeys
Back after several years, we will be raising turkeys on our farm this year. They used to be the mainstay of our meat operation but we started to encounter disease issues and discontinued them. With improvements in organic feed supplies and more holistic management on our part, we are planning to raise 50 Broad Breasted White turkeys this year. Like our chickens, these birds will live on range after brooding and be moved to a new location every day. Choose between a hen (avg. 18 lbs) or tom (avg. 22 lbs) when placing your order. The turkeys will cost $4.50/lb.
Geese
Also back after many years. We plan to raise 12 Embden Whites. We look forward to the month of December when our honkers will be sneaking up to the house for an attack on our flashing (geese are particularly fond of sparkly things). They, too, will live on range and be moved daily until mid-November when they become totally free range and share nighttime housing with the laying chickens. These geese will cost $10.00/lb with birds averaging 10-12 lbs.
Please feel free to use this order form to order your meat!