To learn more, go to www.animalwelfareapproved.org.

Our beef and pork are available regularly at these outlets in Chattanooga, Birmingham, AL and Sewanee, TN:

• Main Street Farmer’s Market: corner of Main and Williams Streets, Wednesdays 4-6pm, Downtown Chattanooga (frozen cuts of beef sold directly by the farm, bulk orders also delivered)
• Brainerd Farmers Market: corner of Brainerd Rd and Belvoir Ave, Saturdays (ONCE A MONTH), pre-ordered packages available as well as individual cuts. Please click HERE to see the next date
• Cumberland Farmer’s Market : Web orders » (pick-up weekly on Tuesdays at the Sewanee Community Center – frozen cuts of beef available)
• On-Farm Trading Post: All of our meats are sold year-round here at the farm. Call ahead for availability and appointment. (423) 942-9201
• Pepper Place Saturday Market: One Saturday per month (April – Dec) Pre-orders available, click here for more information.

Restaurants

Our beef and pork are served by fine chefs around our region. Ask your favorite locally-owned restaurant to contact us for information about wholesale availability & delivery.

Delivery Options

We deliver monthly meat packages to:

• Birmingham, AL
• Chattanooga, TN

More Information about Monthly Meat Deliveries »

For special orders, call or email Padgett Arnold ( padgett_arnold [at] yahoo [dot] com / 423.619.5867)

• Half Hog – All cuts – $3.15 /lb (based on hanging weight, average 100 lb)

• Whole Hog – all cuts – $3.00 /lb (based on hanging weight, average 200 lb)

Pork Cuts

• Spare Ribs
• Sausage
• Chops
• Fresh Ham Roast
• Loin Roast
• Ground Pork
• Ham Hocks
• Shoulder Roast
• Link Sausage & Bacon (produced by Link 41 in Chattanooga, TN)

About Hanging Weight

The price is based on the hanging weight, and includes cutting, wrapping and freezing. The hanging weight is the weight of the meat while it is naturally aging in the meat locker. Once the meat is cut and packaged into individual cuts the loss of the fat, bones and other trim amounts to about 35 to 45 % of the hanging weight. So the actual take home weight of a 200 pound hanging weight will be around 110 pounds.

A whole hog weighing around 200 pounds will take up around 6 to 9 cubic feet of freezer space.

Our heritage breed pork is raised in the woods surrounding our pastures. Free to roam and root around, our pigs live happily and naturally.

SEQUATCHIE, Tenn. (WRCB-TV) – Health experts have stated that one cannot catch the “swine Flu” by eating pork. They have even stopped calling it “Swine Flu” to re-enforce their point. But, fears still pervade many parts of the globe.

A local farmer says, these trying times can move people back to locally raised crops and livestock. And that is not a bad thing. “Our pigs are really healthy,” explained Bill Keener, “in part because we do raise them in a really natural environment.”

He and his wife run a bit of Shangri-La in Marion County. Sequatchie Cove Farm is 300 acres of hills and meadows and grass and buttercups. Conditions for Keener’s herd of 40 Large Blacks and Gloucester Old Spots are a far cry from those of a commercial swine farm. “Well, there you have people coming and going and animals coming and going,” said Keener. “And there is a greater possibility and they really have to look out for, I guess, bio security.”

“The industrial pig is a 3-way cross and it’s kind of designed almost to really grow fast on a small amount of food,” he continued. “And these pigs grow slower, they get a lot of exercise and I don’t have health problems.”

The demand for his is growing. Again, you can’t get the virus formerly know as swine flu from eating pork, but there is this fact. “Things like this often help us,” Keener said, “because a few more people say, ‘I’m gonna get my pork at least where I know it.’ You know?”

So, Bill Keener will keep raising his crops and taking his livestock to market. And he will keep sharing his knowledge of the land and mother nature with one eye on profit and the other on the future. “A lot of what we do is just study nature, said Keener. “And then we say, ‘okay, if this is the way it works in nature and the animals are healthy, what can we do in the confines of this farm to imitate these cycles and processes going on to produce really healthy animals and get our soil healthier and healthier?’ And so, for the next generation, you know, we’ll these healthy animals.”

Reported by: Greg Glover

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Wednesdays, from 4:00 – 6:00 pm

On Main St Between Market and Broad, on the Corner of Main & Williams, across from Hiroshi’s Sushi, Downtown Chattanooga on the South Side.

Thanks to Pete Boubel, our beloved CSA work-share member with tons of creativity and talent, for this wonderful video of the Chattanooga’s Main Street Farmer’s Market… pass it on to your friends & family!

Hope to see you there next week!