How we grow your food..
Beef - grass-fed, grass-finished
Our herd of Brangus cattle are the engine room of our landscape-healing methods. They move to fresh pasture several times a week, chomping and trampling and dunging on the grasses and forbs at high density, then moving on to fresh ground. Paddocks then enjoy seasonally-adjusted rest periods to grow and recover from grazing.
This holistically-planned grazing allows us to build soil organic matter (and sequester carbon), provide delicious forage for the cattle, minimise undesirables like weeds and parasites and promote biodiversity by allowing native species space to live, eat and breed.
All of this means that we can raise our cattle without the significant grain, pesticide and chemical inputs that occur in the feedlot cattle industry.
Pork - raised on pasture
Pigs are a really special animal. They’re smart, active, have a sense of humor and are desperate for a job to do in their ecosystem.
… and no animal is treated worse in the mainstream industrial food system.
Our pigs have a big job to do - using their strength and their work ethic to dig through invasive plants in our paddocks and in our back country, creating significant disturbance so that ecological sucession can occur.
Being raised outdoors from birth, eating a varied and healthy diet and getting lots of exercise isn’t just good for the animals - it means that our pork has better flavour and texture than factory-farmed stuff.
We’ve lost count of the people over the years who have told us they didn’t eat pork until they tried ours.
Eggs - Beyond “free range”
There’s no bigger scam in the food system than egg labelling and marketing, and eaters know it. Trust in the supermarket’s “free range” claims is at rock-bottom for good reason - the carton might show birds in a field, but in reality they’re crammed in a shed with access to a dirt yard at 10,000 birds per hectare.
When you hear the words “free range”, what you picture is our pasture-raised birds. Out on living pastures 24/7, sleeping and laying in mobile sheds that get moved every single week to fresh ground.
They roam the pastures at extremely low density (under a tenth of the “free range” hens per hectare), dust bathe, chase bugs and scratch through the soil - adding their fertility to our pastures that helps us grow amazing forage for the rest of our animals.
The result is a delicious, firm, fresh egg with yolks that vary in colour seasonally. Probably the best you’ve ever had.
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