Ensuring our ewes and lambs live a purposeful, traditional, all-natural life on the farm with sunshine, fresh forage, and family.
We have ultimately found the privilege of an omnivorous diet to be ethically unsustainable without facing and engaging directly with the source of our protein. Join us and bear this responsibility with us, with gratitude.
natural, ethical, small scale shepherding
prioritizing regenerative practices
With minimal intervention, flocks are rotationally mob-grazed on fresh daily pasture during spring and summer months. Lambs are raised without supplemental grain, growing naturally on mother’s milk and pasture grasses. Ewes are given extra shelter, care, and attention during winter and lambing season.
Mobs of heavily grazing ruminants recycle nutrients back to the soil, regenerating living soil health rather than taking away from its fertility, as is not uncommon with a conventional operation.
We test our pasture’s soil annually and continue to be astonished by the balanced improvements to nutrient levels available to our pasture grasses as a result of our regenerative practices.
a natural circle
Well-manured pastures grow healthy, nutritious grasses. Well-grazed grasslands support healthy, nutritious lambs and ewes. Well-fed ewes and lambs carry healthy, nutritious muscle proteins and fat with a rich ratio of omega fatty acids.
Lambs are born on the farm and live a full, natural, purposeful life on daily fresh pasture, good day after good day. Sheep are honored, lambs are individually named and cherished. Flocks are cared for dearly by grateful shepherds.
homegrown produce & protein
Our journey of self-reliant food production began with vegetarianism. For a few years, we avoided meat altogether, motivated by a commonly shared disgust with modern meat production and our cultural complacence. When we decided to return to an omnivorous diet, we felt we had no choice but to try to grow the meat ourselves.
Being such a small farm, we chose to raise Katahdin hair sheep for a number of practical reasons. Katahdins are relatively low maintenance. They’re easy to herd and keep confined. Hair sheep shed their own wool, eliminating the need for any regular shearing. We can opportunistically harvest their fresh raw milk, a resource we hope to take better advantage of as we continue to learn and evolve as homesteaders. When it comes to livestock, sheep are comparatively easy to raise on a small scale and their simple, peaceful energy compliments our environment nicely.
2024 protein shares
Leave your contact information below to be notified when half and whole lamb shares become available in the spring and summer. Current CSA shareholders are first to be notified. Unclaimed shares will be made available to outside customers.
