Beckon Hill Farms
Farm To Table Sales
From our farm to your table, we are your "Up North" source for grassfed pork and wood-fired maple syrup. Our pure maple syrup, with a unique s'more-like flavor that comes from being wood-fired, is packed with antioxidants. Our grassfed pork, available by the whole or half pig, is priced competitively with grocery stores' factory-farmed pork but is more flavorful, humanely raised, and nutritionally superior. And when you directly support regenerative farming with your grocery budget, you're making an investment in the development of a sustainable, healthy, and dramatically different alternative to the prevailing system of resource intensive, ecologically devastating, industrialized food production.
Grass-fed Pork (Idaho Pasture Pigs)
Grass-fed Pork Available by Whole or Half
Our Idaho Pasture Pigs weigh between 220 - 250lbs (live weight) when taken to butcher. The hanging weight for our IPPs is between 190 - 210lbs. The hanging weight is the weight of the animal after it has been field dressed but before it has been aged, cut, packaged and frozen. The final product (the packaged meat) should be around 110 - 130lbs for a whole pig and about 55 - 65lbs for a half pig.
Your price is based on hanging weight, not live weight or packaged weight. You pay us $2.89/lb for the pig and you pay somewhere between $1.10-$1.30/lb directly to the butcher for their processing and packaging services. We transport the pig to the butcher for you and you pick your meat up directly from the local butcher. Note that the butcher offers special options (such as custom smoking of hams) for additional fees. You will have the opportunity to work with the butcher to specify exactly how you want your pork processed!
Whole pigs, butchered and packaged to your specifications, cost around $720. (This is an estimate based on the price for 190 lbs hanging weight: $2.89/lb to us for the pig and $1.10 - $1.30/lb to the butcher for processing.) If you purchase a whole pig, you can expect about 110-130 lbs of butchered pork cuts, including ribs, roasts, chops, hams, steaks, bacon, and ground. The local butcher we use has a variety of options you can choose, and your price may vary slightly with any specialty processing you select. This works out to be about $6.00/lb of packaged pork.
Half pigs, butchered and packaged to your specifications, cost around $360. (This is an estimate based on the price for 95 lbs hanging weight: $2.89/lb to us for the pig and $1.10-$1.30/lb to the butcher for processing.) If you purchase a half pig, you can expect about 55-65 lbs of butchered pork cuts, including ribs, roasts, chops, hams, steaks, bacon, and ground. The local butcher we use has a variety of options you can choose, and your price may vary slightly with any specialty processing you select. This works out to be about $6.00/lb of packaged pork.
A $250 deposit is required to reserve a half and a $350 deposit is required to reserve a whole. We are currently taking deposits for our grass-fed pork with an estimated pickup date in February 2023. Quantities are VERY limited! Our grass-fed Idaho Pasture Pigs reach butchering weights at around 10 months, which is slower than commercial breeds and grain-fed pigs, but we think the flavor, nutrition, and quality are worth the wait!
Our goal in raising grass-fed pork is to give our family and our customers the best nutritional benefits, which begins with healthy, stress-free animals raised without antibiotics in a natural environment. When pigs are raised on pasture, with access to natural forage and plenty of sunshine, their meat and fat is also richer in micronutrients, particularly fat-soluble vitamins E and D, as well as minerals like selenium. Our pork comes from pigs raised outdoors with love. They spend the entirety of their lives on pasture. We also provide them with a milled grain blend to supplement their foraged diet, along with treats of our garden vegetables and apples from the wild apple trees on our land. The unique breed of pigs we raise were selected for their ability to thrive on pasture.
Read more about the health benefits of pastured pork.
Want to know why we chose Idaho Pasture Pigs? Read more about our animals!
GRASSFED PORK BUTCHER ORDER FORM
Maple Syrup
Wood-fired Maple Syrup
There's a unique flavor in wood-fired syrup that we can't get enough of; that's the main reason we go to the trouble of harvesting, drying, and splitting wood for our syrup operations while most commercial syrup operations use gas to heat their syrup.
The unique flavor of our wood-fired syrup is likely due to two things: the increased caramelization of the syrup over the extremely high heat of the wood fire, and the wisps of wood smoke that blow over the surface of the syrup, giving it just a tinge of smokiness. Think s'mores over a campfire, sweet with a subtle smoke essence.
It's how syrup's been processed for hundreds of years, and we think you can taste the difference.
Additionally, our dried wood is sustainable, renewable, and abundant in our sugarbush. In order to maintain the health of our woodland, it is helpful to cull diseased trees, open the canopy for desirable trees while improving the conditions for different flora and fauna. Good forest management practices allow for harvesting firewood while enabling the forest as a whole to improve and ultimately store more carbon. We also like that, by burning wood, we reduce our farm's dependence on fossil fuels.
Limited quantities of pure maple syrup available! $12/pint or $22/quart.
Maple syrup nutrition is impressive when it comes to supplying protective antioxidants. The medical journal Pharmaceutical Biology revealed that pure maple syrup contains up to 24 different antioxidants. Maple syrup contains zinc and manganese in fairly high amounts, in addition to potassium and calcium.
See: Nutrition and Health Benefits of Maple Syrup and Maple Syrup Recipes
