. >> cheryl ouellette raises a menagerie of animals on her five acre pierce county farm. there are turkeys, chickens and rabbits, ducks, goats, sheep, cows. but cheryl is known for her pigs. she takes great pride in how she has run her farm over the past 20 years. >> the animals deserve to have-- to be able to be pigs, to play in the mud, to enjoy their life and what you feed them and how they live affects the taste and the flavor of the meat. we work very hard to make sure that the food they eat is the food we would eat. it looks good, it smells good, it tastes good, and it makes for a very good meal. >> free range farming takes a lot of time and energy. but cheryl says raising the animals is not the hard part. finding someone to slaughter them, with a usda inspector present, is the real challenge. for years, cheryl's pigs were taken to kapowsin in rural pierce county for slaughter, some 45 minutes from her farm, but her cows had a much longer trip. they were packed into a trailer for a three-hour trip to a slaughter facility in sandy oregon. >> sustainable agriculture a