How We Farm, and Why the Feed Matters
WHY WE TOOK CORN AND SOY OUT
Pasture-raised is on every label now. It tells you where the animal lived. It doesn't tell you what it ate — and most pasture-raised chicken, pork, and eggs still come from animals eating corn and soy every single day.
We removed both from the feed entirely. Our chickens and pigs eat a corn-and-soy-free ration from County Line Feeds in Dalmatia, PA: field peas, oats, and Western alfalfa hay, with sesame meal, linseed meal, and fish meal for protein. Our sheep never see grain at all. Grass and forage, start to finish.
WHAT THAT CHANGES IN THE FOOD
Feed shows up on your plate. Corn and soy are heavy in omega-6 fats, and those fats pass straight into egg yolks, chicken fat, and pork fat. Take them out and the food changes: pork with a fat profile closer to olive oil than seed oils, and eggs and chicken that don't carry the omega-6 load of conventional feed. That's the whole reason this farm works the way it does.
LIFE ON PASTURE
We raise Cornish Cross meat chickens, Idaho Pasture Pigs, Katahdin and White Dorper sheep, laying hens, and fall turkeys in Leicester, NY, at the north entrance of Letchworth State Park. The chickens move to fresh grass every morning. The pigs and sheep rotate through paddocks so the ground gets grazed, fertilized, and then rested — that rest is what keeps the pasture improving year over year instead of wearing out. The lambs stay with their mothers until weaning.
WHO HANDLES PROCESSING
Poultry goes to HLW Acres. Pork and lamb go to Timberline Meats. We know the people who handle our animals after they leave the farm, and we can answer for every step.