Our farmers are encouraged to use natural fertilizers and natural pest deterrents wherever possible and we are continuing to educate and incent our farmers to move more and more toward sustainable farming and organic practices.  They are seeing positive results and the majority of our farmers are sold on sustainable, natural and green practices.

To this end several of our farmers are working with someone who is educating us how to incorporate biodiversity into our current sustainable farming processes. The importance of biodiversity includes economic, sociological and of course, environmental components.  Specifically, we′re concentrating on two areas of biodiversity: genetics and agricultural diversity. Genetic biodiversity provides not only vigorous produce, but also new plant and (heirloom) seed varieties. Additionally, maintaining soil fertility and its microorganisms, which make soil and water conservation a priority. Agricultural diversity preserves our seeds, plants, animal food supplies, pastures and the microbial and fungal sources, which are all necessary for healthy soil.

All of our livestock are raised on fresh pasture, in the sunshine, drink from clean creek water and breath fresh clean air as God intended.  The fresh pasture that our livestock forage on is maintained by using a controlled, rotational grazing method. Controlled, rotational grazing has increased forage production for us over the years. Skillfully using livestock to harvest forages leads to improved soil fertility, diverse, dense, and useful pasture not to mention, and an extended grazing season.  Unfortunately with the flood of Spring 2010 we lost approximately 100 feet of pasture in our main chicken production pasture  this soil will take a long time to rebuild.  Fertile soil and productive pastures, in turn, support healthy animals. We do not use antibiotics, poisons, preservatives, hormones or artificial ingredients in our meats.