Your New Butcher's Cut

I love to teach and to learn. Since I was little, both have been a way of life for me. When we started our farm now more than 12 years ago, we sold a few beef and pigs by the "whole" or "half" and I learned to be the butcher. 

I would recruit a few friends and helpers, bring our meat to our neighbors deer cutting shop and cut and prepare the meat for our customers. 

We now have our own facility where we process our chickens and this year for the first time in over 5 years, our team is taking what we've learned from thousands of chickens and bringing it to pork and lamb.

Keygon, Sheneka and Precious are eager to expand their skills to pork and lamb, and their expertise with chicken has served them well. We have practiced breaking down both lambs and pigs into the packages we love to have in our freezer.

Sheneka is an expert at deboning chicken drumsticks, which we use to make chicken sausage and ground chicken. She is now the expert at deboning a ham, which we joke is like a really big drumstick!

As the butcher we get to make all the decisions, which is both exciting and daunting this first time around. One of my favorite questions is: "what new way can we present this part of the animal?"

 I am excited to share a few of these inspirations we now have in our store:

 The first we are calling Shaved Pork. 

Thin sliced pork is so versatile. I took home a handful after our first time making it in the shop with the intention of taking a few pictures for the website, it's a new product after all. I'll share the recipe next week and in the meantime Lewis and Lovett gave it rave reviews.

The second cut is well known as a beef cut, and is also a fantastic pork cut: Eye of the Round Roast.

Smaller than the beef version, these roasts weigh about 1lb and so make a tasty addition to any meal, or serve up multiple to feed a crowd. Full of flavor and very tender my favorite treatment is a rub of 50/50 salt and sugar, let sit for 1 hour then bake in the oven at 350 until desired doneness. Then slice and serve. Yum.

I like to think of it as a budget friendly pork tenderloin.

You will also notice we have added some Lamb items to our Comfort Food sale this month. Including our 4 Rib Lamb Rack, save up to 30%.

From our farm to your table, we are sending our best wishes to you and your family on this holiday week. We hope our food and our story can bring smiles and curiosity to your gatherings.

Your Farmer,

Nathan Henderson