Got Pork? Beginning 18 February 2012, Bartlett Farm has pork by cuts or halves in the freezer for retail sale anytime, which can be delivered with your other products or shipped.

 
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Cow-Share Dairy Products
Would you like to have your own fresh, almost organic Jersey cow milk, cream, butter & cheeses from your own cow-shares? Have them delivered?  Owning a cow-share will provide your family with fresh milk for only about $6 a gallon, as compared to $9 at the store for lesser quality, ultra high temperature pasteurized, organic milk.
Frequently Asked Questions about Cow-Shares 
Why is local raw milk the most healthy, best tasting, and safest milk?
Read or print the Cow-share handout here
Chart comparing conventional, organic and raw milk.  It has the good cholesterol!
Is it possible to get raw cream or butter using cow-shares? Use the Order Form and see how.
Atlantic Monthly article explaining the tastes of butters.
. Meat Chickens and Turkeys
Now taking orders for 2012 pastured broiler chickens and turkeys.  Stewing hens available now. Why is pastured poultry the healthiest and best tasting?
How do I pick up my chickens or turkeys?
Table comparing pastured and conventional poultry.
Raspberries & Raspberry Plants
We pick them for you between late July and mid-August.  Some frozen raspberries are also available. Sold in pint clam-shell containers. Plants best to transplant in early spring. We have the Turtle Mountain variety, which thrive in this region.
Suggestions: Make your own jam. Eat on ice-cream.  Eat fresh with fresh cream. Freeze to have all year long.
        
Pork  (Beginning 18 February 2012, Bartlett Farm has pork by cuts or halves in the freezer for retail sale anytime, which can be delivered with your other products or shipped.)
 "Our locally grown, naturally healthy pork is raised without growth hormones, antibiotics, or chemical stimulants. One whole hog provides approximately 137 lbs of pork for $573.40 cut and wrapped, which is about $4.20/lb with minimal bone or fat. Curing of hams & bacon is typically an additional 50 cents per pound. Halves are available too. If you are an adventurous cook and want more value per pound, ask for the head, feet, heart, liver, kidneys, tail, soup bones and lard. Then the price is less than $3.28/lb. www.BartlettFarm.us 701-263-4574. $150 deposit will hold a half hog, $300 will hold a whole hog."
 
Pastured pork is naturally more tender and juicier than conventional pork, lower in calories and fat, higher in Omega 3s, Conjugated Linoleic Acids (CLAs), Vitamin E and Beta Carotene. This produces heart healthy pork with natural defenses against cancers, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Alzeimer's, and more. We have been amazed at what a difference it makes in how our food is raised, and wish we knew these things years ago.
 
Our pigs, are never given any vaccinations, which depress the immune system, no growth hormones or other chemicals. We rotate our hogs through our fields and forests without nose rings during the summer so that they get the rich nutrients and enzymes from the grass, roots, and acorns in additional to supplementing with sprouted barley, peas, and oats plus minerals and probiotics. They also get raw milk from both our goats and cows.
 
Freezer space estimate for a half hog is two shelves of a standard upright freezer or about 1 1/2 48 quart coolers.
 

WHOLE HOG APPROXIMATES FOR STANDARD CUTS

80 Pork Chops (25 lbs)

12 Pork Roasts (30lbs)

13 Fresh Ham Roasts (30lbs) instead of cured ham to avoid nitrates

15 lbs Side Pork Sliced instead of bacon to avoid nitrates

6 lbs Spare Ribs

20 lbs Ground Pork

20 lbs Ground Pork Fat

3 lbs Pork Liver and ¾ lb Pork Heart

Note: Total lbs is approximately 150 lbs from 250 lb hog (60% of Live Weight).
 

COMMON ADDITIONAL REQUESTS (Takes longer at butcher.)

Seasoned sausage, cure side pork into bacon, cure hams.

UNCOMMON ADDITIONAL REQUESTS (Need to know before slaughter.)

Head, jowl, neck, snout, ears, tail, feet, skin, tongue, kidneys, spleen, stomach, bung, brains, fries.

Eggs
Grass based, hand picked brown farm eggs from our flock of laying hens. On farm pickup or delivery to your door.  Call for availability.
What are the health benefits of eggs from pastured hens?


Goat-Share Dairy Products
Our goats provide a steady supply of goat milk through the year, which we drink and use for yogurt and cheeses.  Would you like to have fresh, naturally produced goat milk or cheese made with goat milk? Call us for the price and details on goat shares. 
Suggestions: Add raspberries with a little sweetener to goat milk yogurt for an excellent snack.
Goat Meat
We have alfalfa and hay fed, naturally raised chevon (7-12 months old) or cabrito (<7 months old).  No artificial growth hormones are used.  You can take them home alive or we can have them processed for you.  To ensure availability, please order 12 months in advance of the desired pick-up date.  Deposits are required.
 
Strawberries & Strawberry Plants
These strawberries are very sweet, adapted to our local area, are grown without pesticides, and from everbearing plants. We hope to have fresh fruit available June to September, some frozen berries are available.  Plants available from early spring to late fall.
 
The cows are moved to a 
fresh 'salad bar' of grass
and legumes every day
which keeps both the pasture and the cows healthy. 
 
Grass Fed Beef
Fill your freezer!  Split halves, halves, and whole beef is sold by the live weight plus local state-inspected plant processing charges.  You'll never go back to greasy store bought hamburger after you've tasted this lean tasty beef! 
 
 
How much does the cost figure per pound if processing is included?  In 2011, the beef price is $1.80/pound based on live weight for a half or whole beef. ND regulations require us to sell based on live weight.
 

Therefore, if you want 1/2 of a 1200 lb beef at $1.80/lb then: .5x1200x1.8=$1080. The actual meat obtained is about 60% of the live weight, so: 1200lbx.5x.6=360lbs.

So the actual price for the meat is approximately: $1080/360lbs =$3/lb.

Then you still pay the butcher, for a half $50 plus 50 cents per pound, which amounts to: 360lbs x .5= $180 +$50 = $230.  The total then becomes ($1080 +$230)/360lbs = $3.64 lb. 

These are approximate numbers for one half beef, but hopefully provides some clarity on these detail
BEEF - CUT SHEET FOR SELECTING BUTCHER, CUTS AND PROCESSING
RETAIL BEEF CUT PICTURES WITH GENERAL COOKING METHODS
GRASS FED BEEF COOKING TIPS
Corn
We grow the popular Peaches & Cream sweet corn in for sale in the fall. We sold 150 dozen in one day one year between the Bottineau Farmers Market and selling at Sawmill Corner, then froze about the same quantity to keep our family through the year.  Let us know early in the spring if you want more than a few dozen.  Corn is one of the first crops we plant. We also plant some other varieties like Northern X-tra sweet corn so let us know if you have a favorite short season variety!
 
Baked Goods
Whole wheat bread, whole wheat buns, raspberry muffins, strawberry muffins, and whole wheat bagels.
Suggestion: Try a fresh bagel toasted with raspberry jam and mysost cheese that melts in your mouth!
 
Jams
Raspberry and strawberry jams made with sugar. Raspberry and strawberry jams made with honey or without seeds can be special ordered.
Suggestion: Jams can be stored for a year or two, therefore it is practical to stock up.
 
Herbs (Kitchen & Medicinal)
Lemon balm, lavender, oregano, thyme, basil, catnip, peppermint, elecampane, chamomile, parsley and others are available fresh each fall. We dry these also for availability at other times.
 
Firewood
We have aspen, ash, oak and elm firewood.  We can sell and deliver by the cord or armful. We cut and split mostly in the early spring and late fall.
 
Diamond Willow
A great wood for walking sticks, lamp stands, hand railings and other projects where the attractive red, white and diamond features are desired.  You are welcome to come to our farm and select the sizes and shapes that best fit your project or let us know what you are looking for and we can send it to you.
Bluegrass and Gospel Music
The Bartlett Family Band consists of Jonathan (20) on banjo, Peter (17) on guitar, Andrew (14) on mandolin and Jim on acoustic bass. They have been playing traditional and Gospel bluegrass music for a variety of public and private events since 2004, and would be happy to play for your event.  

 
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