Animals

We believe healthy animals begin with healthy pasture. Each animal has an important role to play in building pasture fertility and our management practices allow each animal to fully enjoy their distinct “animalness” while freely grazing and foraging.

• Cattle

Moved daily onto fresh paddocks, our herd of Black Angus enjoys the expanse of the pasture. This frequent rotation ensures the freshest grass and living space, minimizes overgrazing and overworked ground, and naturally spreads the best fertilizer for the land, their manure.

• Hogs

Our hogs thrive on a combination of woodland space and fresh open pasture, giving them a balanced diet of grasses, broad leaf pasture plants (weeds), roots and tubers. They are also fed gleaned vegetables from our garden for extra calories, vitamins and minerals. In the winter, we supplement their diet with local crimped oats & whey. Sometimes we even move them onto fallowed land to root up perennial weeds before being cover cropped.

• Free-Range Layers

To ensure healthy and happy birds, our flock of free-range chickens is frequently rotated to fresh, spacious pasture. Most of their day is spent browsing the pasture grasses for supple grass shoots or bugs, laying fresh eggs in our mobile coop, or eating our custom ration of local whole grain chicken feed.  We use electric netting to serve as protection from foxes, raccoons, and other predators.

• Sheep and Goats

Our herd of sheep and goats enjoy rotating around the pasture, keeping things well manicured. The sheep browse what the cows left and the goats enjoy what is left of our pasture weeds.

• Turkeys

The turkeys are raised in the pasture in portable coops which are moved daily to ensure fresh pasture and living space. They are fed a custom local grain diet as well as vegetables from our garden. They will be ready by Thanksgiving, and as soon as our online ordering is complete, you can reserve one for your Thanksgiving feast.