Cane Creek Farm (Mebane, NC) is where we’ve been getting rare breed pastured pork, including Ossabaw breed pork. Cane Creek is also where Renee went to work after completing her graduate degree and leaving the Linkery.

Grazing at Cane Creek Farm

Renee left the farm this weekend to move to New York City (not on a farm), but Cane Creek is doing really well. They are in the midst of a move to a larger location (sounds vaguely familiar) which will help them achieve greater finanical stability (also sounds familiar). Eliza has been selling so much pork and feeder pigs that it looked to me that she’s actually running fairly low on inventory.

Cane Creek’s intrepid staff completes invoicing for the day

At Cane Creek’s new farm, she’ll be partnering with a local rancher that specializes in grassfed beef. They can share some overhead including distribution and marketinng costs.

This heritage breed of chicken is called a Buckeye.

In addition to getting to see Eliza, Renee and Betsy, I learned a little more about Cane Creek’s operations and the challenges they face as they grow into a new location — challenges we hope to be of at least a little help with. We also bought a fair amout of Ossabaw-breed pork and Red Devon-breed grass-fed beef. Lastly, we talked about the possibility of us buying heritage breed feeder and/or feeder pigs from Eliza and having them shipped to farmers closer to the Linkery, who would feed the animals out.