Farm Products

Phoenix Farm offers chicken, duck, and goose eggs; American Guinea Hogs as registered breeding stock, feeder pigs, and pork; feeder lambs and lamb meat; machine washable sheep pelts; and raw wool and roving.

Check out our herd share offer. Download the hog share or lamb share flyers. Download our price list. See the lineage of our breeding hogs.

Phoenix Farm will be at the Farmers' Market of Keene on Tuesday afternoons from 3-6 PM, May through October. We are also teaming up with Greens, Eggs, and Ham to come to market on Saturdays, 9 AM-1 PM.

The market worked closely with the City of Keene to determine how to safely run this essential business. The market can accept credit cards and SNAP/EBT cards. Phoenix Farm can also accept credit cards, PayPal, Google Pay and Apple Pay.

EGG CSA

Customers who subscribe to our egg CSA prepay for 10 dozen eggs or pay at the beginning of the month. They get the eggs for $5.50 a dozen, a 50 cent savings. Our hens are fed non-GMO grain and spend their days freely ranging around our farm.

We deliver to the greater Keene area and Marlborough on Mondays and Thursdays, and the Jaffrey/Peterborough area by appointment.

Vacation policy - we need one week advance notice if you wish to skip a delivery. If we get shorter notice, we will donate the egg share in your name to the Community Kitchen in Keene.

HERD SHARES

Pork Shares

When we decided we would add pigs to our farm to help us reclaim overgrown areas, we were delighted to find a heritage breed, American Guinea Hogs, which are smaller than commercial hogs, and well suited to forage feeding. They are a perfect hog for a small operation, and their meat is more flavorful than grocery store pork.

Here is how it works:

We generally slaughter our hogs at around 14 months old. The charge for that age hog is $520: $100 for the 2 month old piglet and $35 a month for raising it to slaughtering age. We can raise it longer if you wish for $35 a month. We can take your hog to slaughter and you are responsible for the slaughter and butchering costs.

You will arrange for what cuts you want and will pay for slaughter and butchering costs. You can pick up the meat, or we can pick it up and arrange same day collection for you at our farm.

To reserve a hog, we ask for a deposit of $100, and then we can agree on a payment schedule. Once you have paid for the hog and the $57 slaughter costs, the hog is yours.

We take our hogs to Blood Farm. Their current prices are here. As of April, 2020, they charge $70 for slaughter up to 200 pounds (which includes basically all our pigs) and 85 cents a pound for butchering. At Blood Farm, all curing and smoking is done at the owner's risk: $1.85 per lb., and slicing bacon may have an additional charge per lb. Some of our customers prefer getting their bacon and ham at Green Mountain Smokehouse.

We have had our pigs slaughtered at 6 months, which resulted in about 40 pounds of meat (we had it quartered) or at about 14 to 16 months, which resulted in around 60 pounds of meat done in regular cuts (roasts, steaks, ground). The meat can be processed as a roasting pig at any time.

Lamb Shares

We generally slaughter our lambs between the ages of 9 and 12 months. We can take your lamb to slaughter and you would be responsible for the slaughter cost. To reserve a lamb, we ask for a deposit of $150. After butchering, we charge $10 a pound for the hanging weight. (Weight of the carcass before butchering).