Tower Hill, Fingal Valley, Tasmania
Heritage pork, real Tassie farming, and your local post office
We're Primal Pastures, a family farm at Tower Hill in the Fingal Valley, turning tired old land into a working regenerative farm.
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“I'm 72 now and been eating pork all my life... Just had a wood oven grilled forequarter chop from your efforts and it blew my socks off... The skin crackled up perfectly and the fat rendered out beautifully. Magic flavour. Just like the old days.”
How ordering works
We raise animals on pasture and process in small batches. When a batch is ready it sells out. Here's how it works.
- Join the notify listTell us what you're after.
- We email when a batch is readyNo set dates. When we have stock, you'll hear first.
- Order and payWe open orders for that batch only.
- CollectPickup at the Fingal Post Office, or on a local run when we have one.
Money from our meat sales, and from hunting and camping, goes straight back into improving the farm: fences, water, trees and the paddocks the animals live on.
Best sellers
Christmas hamWhisky Barrel double smoked, $44/kg. Pre-orders open now.Pre-order
Diced goat$25 per 1 kg pack, at the Fingal Post Office when we have it.See goat & lamb
StockfeedTasmanian made feed in 20 kg bags. Order online.Order stockfeed
ActivitiesCamping, hunting, farm tracks and more. One group per night. Book online.See dates- Private-property hunting in Tasmania
G'day from Pig Creek
G'day and welcome! I'm William, GM and Farm Manager here at Tower Hill. Before pigs I was a commercial beekeeper in Gippsland. In August 2019 we moved onto a tired old dairy farm on Tower Hill, and a few months later the Fingal fire tore through. We rebuilt the fences and kept going.
Today we raise free-range Wessex Saddleback heritage pigs on pasture, plus cattle, sheep and goats. We cure and whisky barrel smoke our own bacon, ham and kranskies, and we look after the Fingal Post Office in the centre of Fingal.
About 900 acres of hill country at Tower Hill, where about half the farm is in the carbon silvopasture project run by Permagen.
Meet the family See what we're doing on Tower Hill
Explore activities Get notified about the next batch of meat
Meet our pigs
Our heritage pigs spend their days out on pasture, foraging for grubs, roots and weeds, and doing the paddock clearing so we don't have to burn diesel. Once a day they tuck into spent barley and yeast from Waubs Harbour Distillery (opens in a new tab), and we smoke our bacon, hams and kranskies with shavings from the inside of Waubs' barrels, which held whisky for multiple years.
What you'll find here
Help us plant more trees
Every winter we pull on the boots, load up the ute with seedlings and get planting across the farm: shelter for the animals, shade along the fences and natives down the gullies. It's slow, muddy, happy work, and every tree makes the place a little better for the pigs, the birds and us.
If you'd like to be part of it, you can sponsor a tree. We'll plant it, look after it as it grows, and email you a certificate once it's in the ground.
More from the farm
Come and say hi
Our meat and stockfeed are in the Fingal Post Office shop, open Mon to Fri 9am to 3:30pm.
Bring a cooler bag for the meat!
Fingal Post Office, in the centre of Fingal
What our customers say
“The bacon is SO good! We are so thankful you do traditional style without all the chemicals!”
“Just had the lamb chops for tea. Really impressed with the flavour. Great quality meat. Thanks so much.”
Follow along
Pixie, the piglets and the rest of the crew get up to plenty. Follow along with 26K friends on Facebook, and on X @PrimalPasturesT.
