Raven & Boar Farm Pork From Pasture Raised Pigs

Raven & Boar Farm is a family-owned farm in northern Columbia County. The farm raises small herds of pigs with care in open pastures and forests. The pigs are all heritage breeds, including large black, Gloucester old spot, red wattle, Berkshire, Tamworth, mulefoot, and Hereford.

The farm partners with the local award-winning Twin Maple Farm in Ghent, NY, and other local cheese producers to use the whey from their sheep and cow milk cheese and yogurt as a food source for their pigs, following the tradition of Italian pig farmers. This diet gives the pork a unique flavor and texture, and it is naturally more marbled, making it incredibly excellent for charcuterie.

The pigs are fed whey-soaked grains, grass, vegetables, fruits, and naturally foraged roots and acorns. They are rotated on seasonally managed pasture with grass-fed lambs and chickens, which helps keep them healthy and happy while providing a fertile bed for next year’s garden.

Raven & Boar aims to continue partnerships with local businesses to create delicious products and provide high-quality meat to residents and restaurants.

Their meat, fresh free-range eggs, seasonal forage, herbs, and produce can be found at the Rhinebeck, NY, West Stockbridge, MA, and Lenox, MA, farmers’ markets. All animals are USDA-processed and are available year-round.