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Pasture Raised Pork in Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW)
Raised outdoors by farmers who understand that a pig was made to root.
Our pork comes from Prairie Farmstead in Sherman, Texas, where Chuck Trowbridge and his family raise pigs across pasture and wooded areas with room to root, forage and move.
Our pork comes from Prairie Farmstead in Sherman, Texas, where Chuck Trowbridge and his family raise pigs across pasture and wooded areas.
Prairie Farmstead
Pasture & Forest Raised Pork for Your Family
From pork chops and tenderloin to shoulder roasts, ribs, sausage, bacon, lard and other cuts as available, the pork below comes from Prairie Farmstead in Sherman, Texas.
The pigs are raised across pasture and wooded areas and supplemented with a locally milled soy free, corn free, non GMO ration. Availability changes with each group of pigs and processing cycle.
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More Than Pasture
What Pasture Raised Pork Means to Us
A pig should be allowed to behave like a pig.
It roots. It explores. It digs. It looks for food. It rests in shade. It turns over the ground beneath it.
Those behaviors matter to us when we think about how pork should be raised.
At Prairie Farmstead in Sherman, Texas, Chuck Trowbridge and his family raise pigs across pasture and wooded parts of the farm, giving them room to root, forage and move through the landscape rather than treating those natural behaviors as problems to eliminate.
Prairie Farmstead
The Pork We Bring Home to Our Own Family
These details matter because they help us understand how the pigs lived and who was responsible for raising them.
Farm
Prairie Farmstead
Farmer
Chuck Trowbridge & Family
Location
Sherman, Texas
Raising
Pasture & Forest Raised
Feed
Soy Free · Corn Free · Non GMO
Pasture
No Herbicides or Pesticides
Root. Roam. Forage.
A Pig Should Be Allowed to Behave Like a Pig
At Prairie Farmstead, the pigs do more than live outdoors.
They move between pasture and wooded areas of the farm, where they can root through vegetation, forage beneath trees and explore the ground beneath them.
That rooting creates disturbance. Managed well, that disturbance can become part of the life of the farm rather than simply damage to prevent.
Chuck is not trying to remove the pig from the landscape. He is paying attention to how the animal can belong within it.
Blackland Prairie
Farming Begins With the Place You Are Standing
One of the things we appreciate about Chuck is how often his decisions come back to the land itself.
Prairie Farmstead sits on North Texas ground historically connected to the Blackland Prairie.
Chuck has spent time thinking about the history of that land, what it can support and how animals affect it as they move across the farm.
The pigs are one part of that larger system.
Cattle graze. Chickens follow pasture. Pigs work through woods and fields. Different animals. Different jobs. One piece of land.
Know What Your Food Ate
We Think You Should Be Able to Ask
What did this pig eat?
Prairie Farmstead pigs forage while they move through pasture and wooded areas, but pigs also require supplemental feed.
Chuck has their feed milled locally to the farm's specifications.
Soy:
No soy in the current ration.
Corn:
No corn in the current ration.
GMO ingredients:
The current ration is non GMO.
No vague feed language. Just a real farmer and a direct answer to what the pigs were fed.
How the Pigs Are Managed
The Standards Continue Beyond the Ration
Feed is one part of the picture.
Prairie Farmstead states that its pigs are raised without antibiotics, hormones, vaccines or chemical wormers.
The farm also states that the pasture used for the pigs is not sprayed with herbicides or pesticides.
Those details matter to us.
But we still come back to the same question we ask with every farm: who is making the decisions? Even a long list of standards cannot tell us whether the farmer understands the animal, respects the land or is willing to keep learning.
Meet the Farmer
Chuck Trowbridge
Chuck's relationship with agriculture began long before Prairie Farmstead.
He grew up around dairy cattle, beef cattle, hay and farm equipment before eventually leaving New York to study engineering in Texas.
Farming stayed with him.
Over time, Chuck began studying grass based agriculture, soil health and farming systems that reconnect the farmer with the people eating the food.
Prairie Farmstead grew from that way of thinking: not simply producing meat, but learning how animals, soil and people can belong within the same agricultural story.
Farmer Comes First
The Labels Matter. Chuck Matters More.
Prairie Farmstead gives us plenty of standards we could list.
Pasture raised. Forest raised. Soy free. Corn free. Non GMO.
Those things matter.
But we also know Chuck. We can ask him what the pigs are eating, how the animals are moving, what is happening to the ground after they leave and why he made the decisions he did.
That is what makes a farm partner different from a supplier.
Animals and Land
The Pigs Are Not Separate From the Farm
Prairie Farmstead is built around the idea that each animal affects the land differently.
Cattle graze. Chickens scratch and fertilize. Pigs root.
In wooded areas, that rooting can help clear underbrush, expose the forest floor and return nutrients to the ground.
The animals move. Areas are used. Then the pigs move again. It is agriculture that recognizes that the pig itself has something to contribute to the farm.
Before It Reaches the Kitchen
Pork Does Not Begin at the Butcher Counter
Before there was bacon, sausage, pork chops or a shoulder roast, there was an animal.
A pig that rooted through soil. A pig that walked through woods. A pig that ate, rested, moved and needed someone paying attention.
We think knowing that should change something about how we use the food once it reaches us.
Maybe we waste a little less. Maybe we value the less familiar cuts. Maybe we remember that a package of meat represents much more than what we paid for it.
Honor the food has to mean something before dinner reaches the table.
Honor the Whole Animal
More Than Pork Chops and Bacon
A pig gives us much more than the cuts most people recognize first.
Depending on availability, Prairie Farmstead pork may include chops, tenderloin, shoulder roasts, ribs, sausage and bacon along with hocks, jowl, bones, organs and lard.
Those less familiar pieces are not leftovers.
They are part of the animal too. Learning how to use them is one small way we can honor the work it took to raise the pig in the first place.
Our Mission
To bring the farmer back into the family’s food story.
Long before food reaches our table, there was a person behind it. Someone tending the land, caring for animals, watching the weather, making decisions, and doing work most of us will never see.
Somewhere along the way, modern food made it easy for that person to disappear.
ROCK exists to bring that connection back.
We build real relationships with independent Texas farmers and small producers so the families we serve can know more than what is written on a label. They can know where their food came from, something about the people who raised it, and carry a little of that story home with them.
Because food was never meant to end as a product. It was meant to come home, gather people, and become part of a family’s story.