Sign reading 'Peculiar Pig Farm' with illustration of a pig with hair, on a wire fence, with pigs in the background.

Peculiar Pig Farm is a family-owned Heritage Livestock Farm. We are fifth-generation farmers raising animals on land that has been farmed for generations in Dorchester, South Carolina.

Who We Are.

Man with dreadlocks petting a pig through a wire fence in a wooded area.

The farm is situated on a 12 acre parcel of land in Dorchester, South Carolina, and is primarily engaged in raising cows, pigs, goats, chickens, geese, and ducks. Our farm uses sustainable farming practices, including planting cover crops to utilize the manure left by their livestock. We purchase grains from local farmers, further supporting the local economy.

In the press

Featured in Southern Flavor Magazine’s Fall 2026 BBQ issue (pages 42–43): “Pastures, Proteins, and Plates” profiles Peculiar Pig Farm and Marvin Ross of Dorchester, SC. Read the issue: https://www.flipsnack.com/FD6FFAAA9F7/southern-flavor-2026-fall-issue

raised respectfully.

Our animals are raised in wooded lots that allow them to roam and forage as they please. We have many lots on our farms that are designated to our hogs at different stages of their life.

  • When it’s time for our female pigs to give birth, we transfer them to our lot in the front. In this lot, there is a covered pen that can hold six birthing pigs at a time. Fresh hay is laid down and there is plenty of room for them to move around and rest where they like.

  • Once the piglets are old enough to be outside that secured pen, they are free to roam around the lot.
    There are plenty of trees and mud for them to feel comfortable and they love having so many playmates.
    We keep our piglets with their moms for at least eight weeks.

  • We also have chickens,sheep, geese, & goats that roam freely around the farm, without access to the pig lots.

Group of pigs in a forest setting
Two pigs eating vegetables and fruits on the ground.

feed matters.

We feed our hogs with their health in mind.

Our pigs are fed a special feed with the addition of fresh fruits and vegetables. We value their lives and want to give them proper food.

In nature, pigs are omnivores so they would consume a diet of grasses, small animals, insects, earth worms, roots and dirt. Along with their feed, our pigs regularly forage for things in the dirt and mud. Diet matters, and we prove that with the taste of our hogs.

Close-up of a muddy pig's face with dirt-covered snout and dark eyes.
Two goats sniffing a tree in a forest with tall trees in the background.
Two pigs, one brown and one darker, digging in the dirt in a farm or woodland area surrounded by trees and a wooden fence in the background.
A pig standing on dirt in the foreground with a group of goats in the background among trees.
A brown and black goat with curved horns in a wooded area.
Four piglets suckling from their mother pig outdoors.
Group of goats standing on a dirt path in a wooded area with a fence in the background.
A black pig lying in a muddy pond with a wooden dock nearby and a wooded area in the background.
A large pig with black and gray patches standing on dirt ground surrounded by trees, with two smaller pigs in the background.
Three white geese walking on sandy ground near a fenced area with trees and a pond in the background.
Young piglet walking in a forest
A sleeping pig lying on the muddy ground in a forest, surrounded by trees.
A rooster with red comb and wattles among wooden planks and pallets, viewed from a narrow gap, with dim lighting.