Friday, September 13, 2013

Early Morning Photo Shoot 9/13/13

Below are 3 month old market hogs. 





This gilt we have down here is Brownie one of our 5 new breeding pigs. She is about 8 months old and looks absolutely great!

The following two pictures are of 4, 3 month old wild hogs that were found as babies and have been integrated with our farm pigs. 


The two pictures that follow are of more 3 month old market hogs who are ready to be fed their breakfast!


These next two pictures are of one of our breeding sows who is a soon to be mom. Absolutely beautiful and friendly as I was taking these shots of her.  



Lastly, we have some sows and their piglets enjoying the early morning sun!






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Hog Blog is back on!

You may have noticed that our last blog post (before this one) has not been very recent. From now on, we will continue to post on a regular basis. So if you were thinking: "Looks like the blog is dead?" You are wrong. The blog is back and fully alive! 

 For the month of August and the 1st week of September our Hog numbers are as follows:

 Boars: 9 
Sows: 59
Newborn Piglets: 60
Hogs on Pasture: 280

 The total number of pigs on the farm is a little over 400


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Thursday, December 20, 2012

One of our Berkeley Farmer's Market customers bought a chicken and made Roast Jerk Chicken and Pineapple Mind Salad. Read about how she and her 10 year old son dealt with the "wholeness" of the chicken!

http://bakerwithacause.com/roast-jerk-chicken-and-pineapple-mint-salad/
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Raving Reviews


Our pork is receiving raving reviews: 

"We just smoked a pork rib package from our pork share and it was off the chart good."
Ethan Mevi, Oakland CSA customer

"Those pork chops you sent were the best I ever had!" 
Bu Nygrens, co-owner Veritable Vegetable, San Francisco


Due to high demand, we are growing our pig herd. We currently have:

- 65 breeding females
- 7 boars
- 175 feeder pigs ranging in age from 3 weeks to 7 months 

We harvest the pigs every Monday. They are processed at Olson Meat Company in Orland then delivered directly to restaurants and butcher shops, either whole or half animals where the restaurants and butchers do their own butchering. You can taste Riverdog hog at the following restaurants and charcuteries: 

www.pizzaiolooakland.com
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Sows in Spring Pasture

These sows are just entering their third trimester, and they really like their naps.




















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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

More Photos

The photos below are from a beautiful Saturday, March 12.
















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