No matter what Grandma was doing when we arrived, she’d stop everything just to give us the warmest, tightest hug. I spent countless nights in the upstairs bedroom, where mornings always greeted me with the smell of breakfast cooking and the sound of a meadowlark singing just outside the window.

We raise our Kunekune pigs on pasture with care and faith — and honor their lives through a nose-to-tail philosophy that values every part of the animal, including slow-rendered tallow used in our apothecary products.