We gather 600 pounds of acorns from oak trees during the year, then buy an organic 40 pound Berkshire or Red Wattle piglet and raise her in our large shady outdoor pigpen. We butcher her here on the farm with a USDA approved mobile farm butcher. We grow her for her lean meat till she reaches 300 pounds, in 6 months. She will have eaten 600 pounds of acorn and scraps in her lifetime, producing 150 pounds of meat.
Butchering $120, purchasing $100, $1.50 a pound.

By comparison, our supermarket sells non organic fresh pork loin under $2 a pound.