In The beginning... Nineteen years ago we moved to the country and started raising animals for our sustainable lifestyle.  Friends and family enjoyed visiting our farm and sampling our home raised meats.They especially enjoyed the methods we were using to raise our animals. Interest grew, they told friends, and the requests for naturally raised meats grew exponentially.  Soon we were raising pork and poultry and experimenting with farming methods that had been retired, by conventional farmers, long ago.  We found that raising the grains that our animals ate created a greater connection with the land. We also began milking goats.  Their milk provided a healthy protein source for our pigs and chickens.  With milk offered,we didn’t have a dependency solely on corn. 

After sixteen years at that farm we decided to expand our production to include Red Angus cattle. So, we moved to a larger farm in north east Iowa.  We traded in our goats for Holstein and Jersey cows, we didn’t want to stop milk feeding our pigs, we’ve found that the flavor and texture of milk fed pork is superior to conventionally raised pork.