Our simple-ingredient Smoked Ham Hock is one of the easiest ways to add deep, slow-cooked pork flavor to a pot of beans, soup or greens.
Made from our pasture-raised heritage pork, it's brined simply in sea salt, honey and organic maple sugar, then smoked for rich, old-fashioned flavor.
The hock comes from the lower portion of the pig's leg. It contains meat, bone, fat and connective tissue, all of which make it especially well suited to long, gentle cooking.
As it simmers, the meat becomes tender while the bone and connective tissue add richness and body to the broth around it.
Add a Smoked Ham Hock to a pot of dried beans, split pea soup, lentils, collard greens, cabbage or another slow-cooked dish and let it simmer along with everything else.
Once the meat is tender, remove the hock, pull the meat from the bone and stir it back into the pot. One hock can bring an incredible amount of savory, smoky pork flavor to an entire meal.
There's no complicated ingredient list here. Our pasture-raised pork is brined with just sea salt, honey and organic maple sugar before smoking.
It's a straightforward way of preparing a traditional cut that doesn't need much added to make it delicious.
Our heritage breed pigs spend their lives outside in our fields and woods, where they're free to root, forage, explore and wallow.
They naturally forage on grasses, clover, roots, berries, nuts and whatever else they find throughout the seasons. Alongside what they forage, they're supplemented with a nutritionally balanced organic feed made without corn or soy.
We raise them slowly, give them plenty of space, and never use antibiotics, hormones or vaccines.
100% Pasture Raised Pork, brined in Sea Salt, Honey and Organic Maple Sugar.