Sugar Mountain Farm is a farm located in the mountains of rural West Topsham, Vermont, United States, run by Walter Jeffries and his family. Sugar Mountain Farm is the largest pastured pork farm in New England selling through stores and restaurants as well as direct to consumers. Jeffries has innovated a number of techniques in pasture raising of pigs with sustainable inputs, contrasting the high input corn/soy diet that has become popular in modern farming.
Some of the farm goals are sustainable, humane, family friendly agriculture on a human scale. Jeffries developed and put into practice many of his most innovative and significant agricultural methods for raising livestock year round in the northern climate without the high petroleum or grain inputs normally associated with pigs and chickens. Some of his novel techniques and approaches cover feeding pasture and hay to pigs, working on a small family accessible scale, direct-marketing of meats to consumers, local stores and chefs, simple chain and bucket hay baler handling for round bales, Managed intensive grazing adaptations and utilizing the labor of the animals for planting, harvest and manure distribution, making the farm a sustainable agricultural system rather than typical modern conventional confinement factory farming.
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