Rooted at Deuces Wild Farm: How We Got Here & Where We’re Headed

I just want to star out by saying I am so happy you are here! I am so happy you came across my farm page and you are here to see where my farm once was to where we are headed. Thank you again for being here.

I am wanting to share our journey of rasing pastured Kune Kune pork and all of the funny, heartbreaking, heartwarming, problematic, teachable and even the rare quiet moments from our farm. We want you to have a peek into what we do really well and what we struggle with here on the farm. These are real life moments and take aways from here on the farm and the things we deal with daily. We are new to this and we are learning as we go.

We want you to see for yourself how much we love our animals and take care of them. We also want you to know that our pigs, and meat chickens here on the farm are raised for food. We raise these pigs and chickens for our food as well as yours. But I can guarantee you that our animals only have one bad day on our farm and are loved and well cared for every single day.

I’ve always been here on this farm, but when I took it over in 2016 I wanted to change directions. You see I inherited my farm from my papaw (Grandfather for those that wasn’t raised in country). Twenty-five years prior to 2016 this farm had been a thriving standard breed race horse farm. We bred, and trained standard breed race horses, the kind that have the cart attached when racing. I grew up here, running through the barn, playing in the hay and mountain of shavings for the stalls. I watched colts being born, and then trained right here.

Then my grandparents got sick and the farm fell by the wayside. Fields began to be overtaken by briars, and horses moved on to different owners. We no longer trained or bred horses here. At this time I was a teenager and didn’t think much of it. I had plans of my own and that was to leave the farm.

Fast forward to 2010 I was at the time 26 working at a bank in town and married with a 3 year old. My Mamaw had been diagnosed with cancer and my papaw was having a difficult time accepting what was about to happen. They both made arrangements for me at their passing to inherit the farm. Mamaw passed October 2, 2010. Papaw stuck around until February 26, 2016.

At this point I inherited the farm. I had no clue what to do with it. I loved horses but didn’t know anything about training race horses. So the farm sat here for a few years. My husband Jason and I began cleaning up the edges. Trying to take out the old fences that had fallen and were beyond repair. Bush hogging the fields were saplings and briars were taking over. We didn’t get to work on it daily or even weekly (my husband is a lineman and works out of town a lot). I owned a flower shop at this point in town and was trying to keep up with kids, sports, and a business I was letting consume me.

In 2023 I sold the flower shop and turned my attention to the farm. We decided to lease our front field to a cattle farmer to keep it cleaned off once we had fixed it. The cows moved in February 2024. I loved seeing animals in the field again. Fall of 2024 I decided I was going to raise 25 meat chickens and fell in love with providing my family with food I had raised right here on the farm. We then built a chicken coop for our laying chickens that I acquired. (That’s a funny story and I will be sure to write about it one day). But before I got my laying chickens I bought 3 Kune Kune pigs Snoop, Ed, and David. I was hooked. I loved the gentle nature of these barrows and wanted more.

Snoop and David

Since getting the three barrows I’ve bought a few more. Reba was the first girl here on the farm and she is just the sweetest pig. I also bought with her Shrek the first boar on the farm, who led the brigade of boys out of the fence twice and gave me 8 stitches. Lets just say I do not tolerate animals that are aggressive and test my fences. I then got Otis a boar at eight weeks old and we love Otis. He rolls over for belly rubs and comes running for petting. Loretta and Dolly came next sisters that were so small but fit right in with the crew.

I took my three barrows off to be processed and new I wanted more Kunes Kunes for the farm. Pasture pork has such a better flavor that once you have it you’ll never want anything else. So I found 3 more barrows to raise Goober, Andy, and Barney. Then my husband found me a deal I could not pass up. 20 Kune Kune pigs I would just need to drive the trailer to get them. I did and this set of pigs should keep my farm running for years to come. We bought 4 boars 2 being registered, and 10 females with 4 of them registered and 4 barrows and 2 piglets.

You would think it would take forever to feed all of these but 15 minutes tops and I’m done with that chore. What takes the longest is making sure each one gets pets and belly rubs.

My goal here is to provide the best life to my animals and the best food to you and also to my family. We will start having meat shares up for purchase were you can purchase a whole or half or quarter hog for your freezer, and also cuts of pork offered right here on the farm in my future farm store. My plan is to convert my mamaws sewing shed into a farm store. It has a little porch on it and it’s just adorable.

We will be offering farm tours here and also classes and workshops. Because not only do I love the pigs but I love to make things as well. Wreaths, jams and jelly’s, salsa, flower arrangements, cookies, cakes, breads and my most favorite homemade pizza.

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