Bare Knuckle Farm on the Leelanau Peninsula embodies the farm-to-table aesthetic, with its hand-raised animals. One of their customers, a Chicago butcher, writes about the experience of his part of the process first-hand.
Excerpt: I approached Jess as he was loading his rifle. I put my arm around him and thanked him again for what he was about to do for me. And for what he had already done for me. He and our friend Abra raised a hog for us on their farm in Northport, Michigan. A Duroc-Old Spot cross, it lived a happy life rooting in the dirt and eating whey from the nearby Leelanau Cheese Company along with the apples, cherries and chestnuts dropped from the trees in their neighbor’s organic orchard.
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Source: Chicago Reader
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