My wife drives down to Massachusetts,and it's a seven-hour trip every week," Walter says. "it's a lot of gasoline, and lt's a lot of time." And because the van can only carry six pigs per trip, it limits the amount of pork the couple can sell. ''We actually calculated that between the time of loading the pigs and driving down and spending the time sorting our orders that the butcher has done for us and beginning deliveries," Holly says "In that same amount of time,we could slaughter and cut the pigs ourselves.