100% Grass-Fed Cows

Never a Single Grain. Ever.

Our cattle and dairy cows are 100% grass fed from the time they're weaned to their last breath. No grain. No exceptions.

Life on Pasture

During the growing season, our herd is raised on pasture using "mob" grazing techniques. We move the animals to fresh pasture at least once a day, which promotes dense stands of grass and forbs while dramatically improving soil health.

In winter, our herd grazes stockpiled grass or hay. Winter shelter is provided when needed, but our cows always have access to fresh air and sunshine.

Stress-Free from Birth to Harvest

Our cows are always handled as gently as possible. When it's time, we end their lives out in the pasture (their home) which provides a very low-stress process for all animals involved. Our close relationship with our meat processor ensures that our beef is never treated with chemicals.

How We Raise Calves

We grow or source all of our beef calves from 100% grass-fed mama cow herds that never use wormers, vaccines, growth hormones, or antibiotics. We use bulls for all our breeding to have a positive effect on epigenetics.

Baby calves stay on their mama cows until they are 9 months old to ensure their rumens are fully developed. For each cow we milk, another mama (nurse cow) is left in the field with both of their calves.

At 9 months old, calves are fence-line weaned for a month to ensure a stress-free experience. This means the calves are placed on the other side of the fence from their mamas. They're still in plain sight and can associate with them, but cannot nurse. This is how mama cows are dried off within our herds. It's a unique and gentle process we've adopted.

Pasture-Raised Poultry

Meat Chickens

In the summer, our broiler chickens are raised in portable, protected outdoor coops that are moved daily to ensure access to fresh grass and bugs. Their diets are supplemented with non-GMO grain to meet their protein and energy needs.

Slow-grown for flavor: We raise our birds slowly, allowing 10 weeks for them to reach 6lbs. That's 4 weeks longer than conventionally-grown birds. This slower growth adds tremendous flavor to the meat that you'll easily taste.

Our close relationship with our meat processor ensures that our poultry end their lives in a peaceful manner, and that the meat is never treated with chemicals.

Laying Hens & Eggs

Egg production follows the same practices as our meat birds, but these chickens are given more space. We typically keep them in production for a full year before replacing them with younger birds. In winter, they're kept indoors on deep bedding with lots of space and always have outdoor access.

Turkeys

Our turkeys live outdoors on pasture their entire lives. They are moved daily to fresh pasture. The only enclosure is a fence. This is why we only raise turkeys in the warmer months. They're started in the spring and harvested in the fall each year.

What our birds eat: Non-GMO grain supplemented with fresh grass, bugs, and whatever else they forage.

What we never use: No antibiotics, vaccines, wormers, or growth hormones. Ever.

Pasture-Raised Pork

All of our pork is raised outdoors with indoor access in winter. Our pigs are moved weekly to ensure fresh grass and forbs for forage. In winter, additional hay is supplemented as needed.

Pigs are fed non-GMO grain as needed to meet their energy and protein needs. All piglets are raised from sow herds using the same protocols.

What we never use: No antibiotics, wormers, growth hormones, or vaccines. In addition, nitrates are not used in any of our cured products.

Our close relationship with our meat processor ensures that our pigs end their lives in a peaceful manner, and that the meat is never treated with chemicals.

The Garden

All vegetables are seasonal and grown organically in nutritionally-dense, healthy soils. This ensures a safe and healthy eating experience.

Whenever possible, we process and freeze vegetables to keep them available in the off-season.