Our farming Blog
Raw Milk: The Benefits
"Raw milk is real milk." We say this often, and even boast shirts with the saying, but what does it truly mean? Raw milk is nature's perfect super food. Cows naturally provide probiotics, fats, protein, vitamins, and minerals through their milk. And for every...
Pastured Pork is Better Pork
Let's go back, say 100 years. Life is slower, simpler. And everyone grows some form of their own food in their yard. These days all our food comes from the grocery store, or is even delivered to our doorstep, with little to no connection to the person that grew...
The True Cost of Small Farms
"Will you be lowering prices anytime soon?" "Wow. You're really taking advantage of this egg shortage." "You're too expensive, why can I buy it for cheaper at the grocery store?" These are just a few comments that have been made about our farm this month....
Grass-fed vs. Grain-fed: Why grass-fed dairy has become near impossible.
"Is it grass-fed?" What a loaded question. As a consumer, I feel certain that this question comes from the knowledge that cows traditionally eat grass and have for thousands of years. It's also most likely from a desire to avoid grain fed products, which I totally...
Raw Milk: The History
Humans have been consuming raw milk for thousands of years. Vessel artifacts from the earliest civilizations have contained milk residue. The Sumerians consumed milk products such as butter, yogurt, and even cheese. The ancient Egyptians had clay pots filled with milk...
AAHF: Alabama’s First Certified Naturally Grown Micro-dairy
As of this month, six months after transitioning to our certified organic feed, we are an official Certified Naturally Grown farm! When we first started farming we wanted to be certified USDA organic. But the more we farmed, and the more we learned about the...
Better Than Organic: Our Road to Holistic Farming
Ten years into the world of farming, and we're finally in the place we wanted to be all along. As of January 2024, all livestock are fed organically and raised holistically! When we started in 2014, we knew that we wanted to be different in both the breeds we raised...
Know Your Farmer: Practical questions for your producer
"Know your farmer, know your food." It's something we say all the time on our operation, but what does it really mean? Knowing your farmer is more than just knowing their first name or what they produce. While those things are important, so is knowing if their beliefs...
Going Against the Grain
Generational farming knowledge. What a wonderful thing to have, something I wish I was privy to. While our land has been in my family for almost 200 years, the farming knowledge we have is all "new." My great grandparents were the last to truly farm this place...
My Dad’s Dairy: Our Unexpected Journey to Dairy Cows
Dairy cows. The one animal I swore we would never have because I thought we didn't need them. But as with everything we farm here, it's not what we think. It's what God guides us to. It became pretty apparent after our son was born that we would need to supplement him...