Certification and Publications
Sugar Mountain Farm is a Naturally Raised and NoWeirdStuff farm which provides certification similar to and beyond the USDA Organic standards for both humane animal treatment and production.
Jeffries was listed by Backwoods Home Magazine as one of the "Ten Real Inspriations" for 2009 for his work to protect traditional rights to farm fighting against the USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) led through his web site NoNAIS.org.
Jeffries writes a regular column "A Day In The Life" for Livin' The Vermont Way magazine about stories from Sugar Mountain Farm. Jeffries has also written articles for Mother Earth News and other publications.
Sugar Mountain Farm appears in the new book "Primal Cuts: Cooking with America's Best Butchers" by Marissa Guggiana from Welcome Books.
The book 'The Complete Guide to Raising Pigs' by Carlotta Cooper published by Atlantic Publishing featured a case study of Sugar Mountain Farm.
The Open Source Ecology is including the Sugar Mountain Farm on-farm USDA/State inspected slaughterhouse and butcher shop in its OpenFarmTech.org project.
Walter Jeffries is a co-author of the University of Vermont publication “Guide to Financing the Community Supported Farm: Ways for Farms to Acquire Capital Within Communities”
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