Dear friends and customers of North Mountain Pastures, This is the last of our 3 part email series sharing links of why it is super important to source your pork locally and pasture-raised. We know that you local food eaters know this stuff already, and sourcing high quality and direct from the farm is already routine for you. But again, if you aren't quite sure, we're hoping that these links will give you helpful information. Paleo diet experts Robb Wolf and Diana Rodgers sh

Dear local food eaters, If you are anything like us, maybe you have more time to listen to things than read, because you can multitask while you are cooking, driving, and busying around. Here is an eye-opening interview that you can read or listen to on the Splendid Table with Barry Estabrook, food journalist and author of Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat. This interview explains a lot of unique aspects of pork production, including the serious negative hea

Pork is the biggie. If we had to pick one food that would be the most important to buy pasture-raised, it would be pork. Over the next week, we’re going to send out three emails with reputable sources to explain why this is. There is a series at TheWhole9 (focusing on long term sustainable health and food, created by the same folks as the popular Whole30 diet) called The Conscientious Omnivore. This is a great name, as the choice to eat meat, and what kind of meat, can be so