{"id":915,"date":"2015-03-14T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2015-03-14T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:53:14","slug":"pork-progressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/pork-progressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork Progressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just sold a <a title=\"Get one for yourself!!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/store\/products\/winter-hog-share-4lb\/\" target=\"_blank\">half a pig.<\/a> \u00a0Not big news itself&#8230;but the short story behind it- makes our day.<\/p>\n<p>We have a long term farmers market customer that bought lots of pork cuts from us at the booth over the years. \u00a0 Unfortunately, we don&#8217;t carry all the possible cuts for a hog- we try and focus on the ones that sell best (carrying caul fat around for 6 weeks gets old). \u00a0This customer wanted more, so took the <a title=\"hog butchering class\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/butcher-classes\/\">hog butchering class <\/a>with Taryn last year. \u00a0Now, that half hog mentioned above, is heading straight to this customer&#8217;s house for a little home butchering!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the progression- fall in love with pastured pork, learn the skills to butcher one, and then do it! \u00a0This is fantastic. \u00a0These pork chops went from $7.50 retail to $5.50 with the class to $4.00 at home. \u00a0The same chop!! \u00a0And guess what we make the same amount on that chop as well. \u00a0A happy day around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just sold a half a pig. \u00a0Not big news itself&#8230;but the short story behind it- makes our day. We have a long term farmers market customer that bought lots of pork cuts from us at the booth over the years. \u00a0 Unfortunately, we don&#8217;t carry all the possible cuts for a hog- we try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}