Our naturally grown Flint, Michigan pastured beef eats green vegetation, and so they only eat grasses and legumes to complete their diet versus human harvested grains. Our locally grown beef is grass finished on our pastures that are insecticide and herbicide free. Unlike feed lots and other mass cattle growing operations, our cattle get moved every couple days to a fresh green pasture consisting of a new buffet of vegetation. Moving the cattle frequently versus an open pasture stimulates the grasses to keep it growing in its most nutritious state. Therefore allowing the cattle to get the most out of what they eat, and giving you the best quality meat.
Our pastured chicken live the majority of their lives on our green pasture. They start out as chicks in the barn under controlled conditions to get them healthy enough to go outside and live where there is green grass to consume. We move the chickens daily to fresh patch of pasture where they will consume up to 40% of their diet in vegetation and insects. Since chickens are omnivores we supplement them with a free choice feed blend containing soy protein, corn, and essentials minerals secured from a local grainery.
Our pigs work on the farm and help serve the farm environment by managing our cattle's compost. They love their work because they are doing what they were made to do which is dig and root around. In the wintered manure pack mixed with wood chips and whole kernel corn the pigs happily dig for the sweet fermented corn to eat, and in turn mix the compost pile to create fresh soil. Once the compost pile is completed mixed to soil we turn the pigs out on pasture where they have access to fresh vegetation. Since the pigs are also omnivores they receive free choice feed that contains soy protein, corn, and essential minerals secured from a local grainery.
The layer hens have an essential job on the farm helping to naturally control insects in the pasture. The hens follow three days behind the cattle's freshly grazed pasture free to roam about picking insects from the ground, eating the fresh vegetation, and most importantly digging through the cattle manure. When digging through the manure they scatter the patties to be freshly absorbed into the soil and pick out the fly larvae before they turn into flies. The additional insects and pasture consumed by the hens creates eggs that have significantly more of the good nutrition, and significantly less of the bad things in eggs such as cholesterol and saturated fat compared to the standard FDA factory farm eggs.
All of our wood is harvested and split from our property. Most of the wood is from trees that been felled naturally by nature which we cut and split for your convenience. We sell our wood by the face cord which is 8 feet long and 4 feet high. We welcome you to come to the farm and pick up your split firewood.