Farm-Raised Meat Guide: Pork
Idaho Preferred Farm-Raised PORK GUIDE
Enhance your dining experience this season with a variety of locally sourced meats from Idaho. Fill your freezers with poultry produced right here, ensuring transparency in your food source and direct support for Idaho’s dedicated ranch families.
Choosing local pork from Idaho ranchers means enjoying high-quality, tasty meat. Whether it’s pasture-raised or free-range, Idaho farmers prioritize quality and flavor, ensuring their animals are raised with care to enhance your farm-to-fork dining experience. Additionally, supporting local not only brings delicious meals to your table but also strengthens our local economy, making every bite a boost for both your taste buds and our community.
Further, Idaho cultivates over 185 commodities offering a bountiful state where you can more likely find almost anything you need for your dinner table grown, raised, or crafted locally. Check out the Idaho Preferred Farm + Food Finder and discover local pork producers near you!
GUIDE TO DISCOVERING IDAHO’S PREFERRED DIRECT-BUY swine producers
Grandad Farms
Emmett
Grandad Farms focuses on its unwavering commitment to providing high-quality and wholesome food. At the heart of their practices lies rotational grazing, a method where their animals are frequently moved to new pasture giving them access to sunshine, fresh grass, promoting a diverse diet, and plenty of room to roam. Their animals thrive on unsprayed pasture, supplemented with minerals, herbs, organic fruit, and vegetable scraps. They adhere to a diet free from GMOs, corn, and soy.
Hipwell Ranch
Oreana
Raised locally in the beautiful Owyhee Mountain range, Hipwell Ranch offers all-natural, local grass-fed and finished beef, along with chicken and pork. No antibiotics, no hormones, no GMO – simply back to their roots farming practices that create healthy soils, sustainable feed, and high nutritional benefits for all Hipwell Ranch meats.
red star ranch
hazelton
Raised locally in the beautiful Owyhee Mountain range, Hipwell Ranch offers all-natural, local, grass-fed and finished, beef, along with chicken and pork. No antibiotics, no hormones, no GMO – simply back to their roots farming practices that create healthy soils, sustainable feed, and high nutritional benefits for all Hipwell Ranch meats.
Snake River Farms
Boise
Snake River Farms Kurobuta pork is considered to be the pork equivalent of American Wagyu beef. Created from the Berkshire pig, Kurobuta is a heritage pork that comes from Japan. It’s world-renowned for its hefty fat content and exceptional tenderness, which gives traditionally tough cuts of pork a major texture upgrade.
Vogel Farms
Kuna
Buy from Vogel Farms for fresh-from-the-farm, local, all-natural grass, and non-GMO grain-fed beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and turkey. Over 70 years of experience delivers what some say is the tastiest meat in the valley. All of their animals and feed are raised right on the farm in Kuna, Idaho.
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