Our cows and sheep are rotated throughout our very diverse grass lands, brush, forests and meadows and in the winter months are fed only grass products like hay and haylage.
- They are 100% grass-fed
- Free of added hormones
- Free or antibiotics
- No synthetic fertilizer used on the land
- No animal by-products fed
- Our animals are SPCA certified
- Cattle and sheep are organic, certified by PACS
Our Cows
Our cows and young calves go up on range in the summer months and graze on the delicious mix of alpine grasses, while the yearlings stay on the farm, grazing our diverse pasture land. In the fall when the snow starts creeping down the mountains, the cows return home to the farm, where they spend the winter.
The calves are born in February. Straw beds keep the calves dry and allow us to collect compost for our fields. When spring arrives, the calves have grown enough to keep up with their mothers on range. The cattle are a mix of breeds, predominantly Angus, mixed with some Hereford or Jersey.
Our Sheep
Our ewes are Dorper and Katadin, both hair sheep breeds. By using rams of wool breeds we produce slightly larger lambs for better yield and tasty eating. They too, are rotated through our pastures on the farm. The lambs are born in April/May into the warm spring sunshine, and finished for slaughter by the fall. The sheep are protected by 2 large guardian dogs who live with the sheep at all times, keeping the predators at a distance. Our llama, Anna, and her son also live with the sheep and help protect them from predators.
We use low stress livestock handling techniques for all of our animals.
