Two Pigs Farm
Pastured meat, organically-grown produce, and free range eggs.
Vendor Story
Yorke & Chase Reynolds
Two Pigs Farms is a family affair in the way that only siblings can make it so.
Chase Reynolds recalls vividly the moment his sister Yorke Reynolds turned a daydream toward the reality of a working farm.
She told him news of an alpaca herd for sale in Michigan. Yes, alpacas.
“I laughed at her and told her there was no way in hell I was going to do that,” Chase recalls. “Ten minutes later, I came back downstairs and said, ‘Okay, here are my conditions….’”
That was in 2011. Brother and sister had both recently earned engineering degrees from N.C. State University, he in mechanical and electrical engineering, she in chemical and biomolecular engineering.
Chase had just hiked the Appalachian Trail, after a stint putting his engineering expertise to use for a plumbing company. On the New England portion of his hike, he fell in love with organic vegetable farming after meeting a young couple and their two young kids doing just that.
“Maybe I’ll try to be a farmer,” he told his sister when he got home. Their parents had cattle farmland that was between leases near Cleveland, N.C., and soon they were off and running, with the alpacas as well as other livestock and produce.
Today the alpacas reside on a “sister” farm in Virginia. Yorke sends some alpaca wool to Connecticut for fabrication, and some of those products show up at the Davidson Farmers Market’s special holiday craft markets.
Chase runs the original Two Pigs Farm in Cleveland, now in its ninth year as a regular “100-mile-radius” vendor at the Davidson market. Two Pigs sells mostly meats, including beef, lamb, chicken, turkey… and, of course, pork.
The Two Pigs name itself came from another quintessential brother-sister moment. After several hours wracking their brains to come up with a name as the farm was becoming reality, the pair broke for food. Somewhere along the way, they started laughing about how they had always called each other pigs because they love to eat good food. And that was that.
“Davidson Farmers Market customers are great,” says Chase. “They understand the differences in quality food.”
