Mulefoot Pork
Crockpot Spareribs with fresh garden veggies
Mulberry Creek Farm has in the past raised the critically rare American Mulefoot Hog both for breeding and for the succulent pork from these old style hogs.
We currently have a limited amount of pork by the cut, processed and packaged.
For more information about pork availability please contact us.
Live Hogs
We do not currently have any live hogs.
We currently have a limited amount of pork by the cut, processed and packaged.
For more information about pork availability please contact us.
Live Hogs
We do not currently have any live hogs.
Mulberry Creek CSA Range Raised Heritage Pork
Although we do not currently have any hogs (due to our recent relocation), our goal is to be truly sustainable - and in our mind that means that we can sustain ourselves mostly with what we have on the farm, much like our ancestors of the not so very distant past did.
We hope, in the future, to again be able to be able to raise the critically rare Mulefoot Pig is (like nearly all of our other livestock) also listed on the Slow Food Ark of Taste.
In these pages you can:
Read the story of how the American Mulefoot Hog came to live at Mulberry Creek
Learn about the breed, American Mulefoot Hog, both in the past and today
Find out why this pork is so good it's on the Slow Food Ark of Taste
Below are a few websites dealing with American Mulefoot Hogs in particular, heritage animals in general, and yummy pork!
We hope, in the future, to again be able to be able to raise the critically rare Mulefoot Pig is (like nearly all of our other livestock) also listed on the Slow Food Ark of Taste.
In these pages you can:
Read the story of how the American Mulefoot Hog came to live at Mulberry Creek
Learn about the breed, American Mulefoot Hog, both in the past and today
Find out why this pork is so good it's on the Slow Food Ark of Taste
Below are a few websites dealing with American Mulefoot Hogs in particular, heritage animals in general, and yummy pork!
Heritage Breeds
"The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization working to protect over 180 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Included are asses, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys."
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American Mulefoot Hog
"The Mulefoot is an American hog breed that is named for its most distinctive feature, the solid, non-cloven hoof which looks like the hoof of a mule." - American Livestock Breeds Conservancy Mulefoot Hog page
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Oklahoma State Animal Science Breeds of Livestock site
"This site is intended as an educational and informational resource on breeds of livestock throughout the world."
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OK State Mulefoot page
"Pigs with solid hooves (also called syndactylism) have attracted the interest of many writers over the centuries, including Aristotle and Darwin."
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Local Harvest Heritage Meat
"Before supermarkets and distributors made mass-produced livestock dominant on the market, American farms raised a wide variety of farm animal breeds. These were developed over centuries for being able to thrive in their particular climate and environment, and for the flavor and texture of their meats." Follow the links to the Heritage Pork page. Hopefully they'll add Mulefoot to the list soon!
Sustainable Table Heritage Breeds
"Heritage breeds are traditional livestock breeds that were raised by farmers in the past, before the drastic reduction of breed variety caused by the rise of industrial agriculture."
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Ark of Taste Mulefoot Hog page
"The Mulefoot Hog is an American breed that descended from the hogs that the Spanish brought to Florida and the Gulf Coast in the 1500s."
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