Real animals.
Honest ground.
No certifications hanging in the office. Just twenty years of doing it the way our grandparents would recognize, and a standing invitation to come walk it with us.
No certifications hanging in the office. Just twenty years of doing it the way our grandparents would recognize, and a standing invitation to come walk it with us.
Most "transparency" pages on farm websites are marketing. This one is a tour. Here is, in honest detail, how we run the place.
Our cattle live on grass from spring through fall and are finished slow on a forage-first ration that includes our own hay. They are moved between pastures on a schedule the grass dictates, not the calendar.
Our pigs are a Yorkshire × Hampshire cross, raised in open-air pens under the Northern AZ sunshine. No hormones, no steroids, no antibiotics — humanely raised from start to finish. They live well, and that shows up in the meat.
We raise broilers in small batches on rotated pasture in mobile shelters, and a mixed laying flock that produces the kind of yolks that stand up in the pan. Public sales are coming soon.
Roughly two acres of intensive market garden, plus the bee yard up on the bench. We grow what grows well here, and we don't try to make the desert into something it isn't.
Every farm has a list. Most farms keep theirs to themselves. Ours is on the wall in the store. Here it is for everyone else.
No hormone implants on cattle.
No routine antibiotics in feed.
No CAFO confinement, ever.
No glyphosate in the garden.
No GMO grain in the layer feed.
No artificial colors or flavors in our pantry goods.
No selling product we wouldn't put on our own table.
No shipping cross-country. Local only.
No pretending the season is something it isn't.
No misleading labels. If we couldn't grow it, we say so.
No locked gate on tour day.
No customer treated like a transaction.
Call ahead, bring the kids, walk the pasture. We'll point out which cow is which.