Happy, healthy, humanely-raised hogs.

Our pork comes from pigs living as pigs ought to, foraging for food in field and forest (along with steady rations in the trough). No confinement barns and none of what comes with confinement operations: crowded conditions, heavy medication, and an awful waste problem.

The old family business.

The Whitten family has been here for over 90 years now, and have been raising sheep for most of that time, and the county road running alongside the property was named for a sheep-herder who was here before us.

Starting from the ground up.

Since 2010, Whittenberg Farms has been officially in the beef business, selling beef by the cut at the Red Bluff Farmers' Markets.  In the 2011 market season, we plan to also have packages available by pre-order.

Chickens, turkeys, and emus, oh my!

Actually, just chickens and turkeys, because Mr. Whitten can’t talk Mrs. Whitten into getting emus… yet.  Both the chickens and turkeys are raised in portable pens that are moved about the pasture, where the birds can supplement their given rations with forage (and freedom).

Sustainably-harvested oak firewood.

The trick to sustainably-harvested firewood is hardly even a trick: just cut less than what grows.  No clear-cutting, just selectively trimming trees and thinning stands, so that what’s left can grow even better.