In a world of chaos a HOG FARMER takes matters into his own hands. RAISING ROOTS | MMNP Farm Series

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Meet My Neighbor Productions Farm Series Season 1 Episode 1
Raising Roots Farm

From Farm to Table - Farmers take meat processing into their own hands.

Nationally meat packaging plants have been facing unprecedented delays in processing meat for consumers and farmers causing food shortages globally.

The backups in meat processing around the country has left many farmers wondering not only how to process food for their customers, but themselves. Farmers Brandon and Jennifer Berry from Raising Roots Farm in Hickory North Carolina, take us back to a time when farming meant more than just a corporate filled freezer and explain the process of how they have integrated a butcher shop a hog on a hog farm with a 9000 square foot greenhouse and garden to serve their community.

0:00 Raising Roots Farm Hickory North Carolina
3:19 Building an Aquaponics Greenhouse
7:14 Why choose Gloucester Old Spot Breed
8:31 Gloucester Old Spot Characteristics
9:27 Gloucester Old Spot Meat Quality
9:53 Selecting Gloucester Old Spot genetics
11:50 Land management of Pasture Raised Pigs
15:10 How do pigs benefit from pasture?
16:40 What do pigs eat?
17:40 Raising Meal Worms
20:19 Free Food Waste for Pigs
24:28 Opening an on farm butcher shop.
33:40 Hickory NC Farmers Market
34:53 Learn how to raise pigs on pasture.
37:10 The Farming Life, It's a Life You Choose
39:45 Credits

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