Pasture Perfect® Pork is certified “A” grown to the strict standards of the Organic Food Chain, an internationally recognized organic certifying body. Our Certification number is 0463.
Our Berkshire porkers live on 200 hectares of lush green pastures in the New England regional of Northern NSW. We are the largest Certified Organic Pork Producer in Australia, and the only certified pork producer growing Berkshire/Kurobuta pigs.
We aim to provide excellent quality meat at the same time as improving the quality of life for animals. With a Holistic approach to the management of our herd and land, we intend to improve the soils and pasture, thus improving the quality of feed available to the animals, and of the food available to you.
Kurobuta is Japanese for Black Pig and is synonymous with quality and flavorsome pork…The Berkshire is to pork what the Wagyu is to beef
Being Organic means that all animals we produce must be born and raised on Certified Organic Land and be fed only feeds that meet the Australian Standards for organic certification, a code that was written by AQIS. We are the only producer in Australia making a full range of Certified Organic Small goods such as Ham and Bacon in the hot smoked curing category and Pancetta, Prosciutto and Dried Hams.
For cured meat products to gain organic certification they have to be processed without the use of nitrates or other chemical preservatives. We have spent 6 years researching and working to find a cure that passes the certified organic standards that has the same appeal in taste and colour that the end consumer is accustomed to.
The Kurobuta
Kurobuta is Japanese for Black Pig, and is synonymous with quality and flavorsome pork. Chefs widely recognize Kurobuta pork as being the finest quality pork available.
Characteristics of Kurobuta meat are that it is more robust (red) in appearance, and finely marbled and is naturally higher in the essential omega fatty acids.
Our Guarantee
- 100% Free range, 100% Australian pasture raised, 100% Certified Organic & 100% chemical free – unlike supermarket bacon and ham, our products contain no chemical nitrates & preservative E220
- We do not use chemicals on the animals or the land, no antibiotics are used on any animal sold as organic
- The animals are fed a balanced mix of Certified Organic grains that contain no Genetically Modified ingredients
- Animals are free to run, graze, play, dig and show all of the characteristics true to their nature
- Our Animals are always outdoors, with shelter available. At no time are any of our pigs confined to a cement floored shed or any shed
As the Wagyu is regarded as the best cattle breed for flavor and marbling, so is theBerkshirerenowned for its superior eating quality pork.
Our pork is also a great source of Vitamin D as our animals are totally free range, they can choose if they want to be in the sun or in the shade. So many people have turned away from eating meat because of the stigma of unhealthy fats. When you eat meat that is raised on pasture, there are naturally higher in beneficial fats, good, heart healthy fats! So in the case of our pork, don’t cut the fat off and throw it away, enjoy, because it is good for you.
Fats from animals that graze are high in Vitamin D, a powerful immune boosting vitamin that we are tending to get less of because of skin cancer fears. When you buy any Pasture Perfect Pork product, you know that you are directly supporting our farm, our commitment to care for the land and animals, and our passion for providing food that has been raised with respect and care.
Happy Pigs
One of the things that really sets us apart from other free range businesses is that the whole process is continually moving… literally!
All of the infrastructure that we have built for the pigs is mobile. This is so that we can better manage the land and the animals. We move the animals on a “Controlled Grazing Plan” utilising over 500 acres of land, using portable electric fences, mobile shelters and waterers. This allows us to have greater control over the impact the pigs are having on the ground that we put them on, and also to give us more control over the time we allow the ground and grasses to rest or recover. This is especially important as we move them over our irrigated organic horticulture areas.
We usually have a short “Graze” time followed by a long recovery period. During this recovery period, any dung that is on the ground breaks down into the soil. Not only does this give the grasses time to recover, but also helps to break the life cycle of any intestinal parasites. It also gives the ground time to be sanitized by the sun so there is very low or no bacterial build up that may occur in set stocked free range operations, or shedded pork operations. Pigs are separated according to age and size, with breeding sows into groups of about 15 – 25 animals and growers into groups of up to 250. Each group has reticulated (piped) fresh water, dispensed with pig nipples, and shade/rain shelters on wheels. Grass, clovers, lucerne, plaintain and assorted weeds are not all the pigs have to eat. They receive a ration of Balanced Organic Pig Food daily. After the morning feed we find they spend the rest of the day playing, sleeping, grazing or foraging.
Healthy Pigs
We have stopped vaccinating our breeding stock as we found that we were having a higher stillbirth rate with vaccination as compared to stock that had not been vaccinated. We also believe that because the pigs are able to graze and select what they need from the grasses, forbs, roots, soil minerals etc., and that they are not forced to live in inhumane conditions without natural sunlight and the chance to play, dig, run and be happy, that they have a much higher immunity to illnesses.
We prevent sickness in our herd through careful management and the use of homeopathics. We do not use antibiotics in our feed or in the routine treatment of illnesses. We don’t need to use chemicals or even natural remedies such as sulphur, to treat parasites either. We find that parasite life cycles are broken through the constant move/rest process.
If we do find a sick animal, it is taken to the quarantine pen and treated with Homeopathics, herbal remedies and Reiki until better. Over the 5 years that we have had pigs we have had Zero disease outbreaks and a very low percentage of illnesses.
