The Animals
Our animals live outdoors and are frequently moved to well-rested pastures. This provides constant sunlight, clean bedding, fresh air, and most importantly a natural diet full of grasses, wildflowers, insects, and worms.
Pasture Raised Chicken
Our chickens are rotated twice daily to fresh pastures where they eat a natural, omnivorous diet. They get their protein from bugs and worms hunted from the pasture (not processed chicken guts like industrially-raised chickens). They are given a supplemental ration of locally-sourced, certified organic feed. We don’t use any medications or antibiotics because with our model of rotational grazing, the animals have...
Pasture Raised Eggs
Our hens, like all our other animals, are outside all day, everyday where they receive a fresh area of pasture which they voraciously scour for insects and worms. These chickens roost and lay eggs in a portable shelter called a “hoop house.” The hoop house resides in an area of pasture measuring 1,600 sq.ft. whose border is protected using portable electric net fencing. Every morning we open the hoop house allowing the hens to…
Pasture Raised Pork
Our pigs are a slow-growing, heritage breed called the KuneKune. We frequently rotate our pigs to fresh ground allowing them to do what they do best: mow and fertilize. And since KuneKune’s short upturned snouts are not as adept at rooting, they won’t destroy our summer pastures nor the soil we’re working so hard to build. These features make KuneKune pigs an integral step forward in finding a place for pork in the…
Pasture Raised Turkey
Our turkeys roam a fresh patch of pasture measuring just over 1,600 sq.ft. which is enclosed by portable electric net fencing. Every couple days we move the fencing and a portable shelter to a new patch of fresh pasture. Our turkeys also receive a supplemental certified organic feed. These turkeys are excellent grazers and hunters, mowing down everything in their path…
Honeybees
We started our beekeeping adventure this past spring in an effort to help preserve one of nature’s most important pollinators. We don’t use any chemicals to treat our hives and while this means we are more likely to lose some bees here and there, it also means the bees we keep will be well adapted to our local ecology. It also means our honey will be completely pesticide-free…