Regenerative Farming

Our Regenerative Farming Practices

We implement innovative regenerative techniques inspired by Joel Salatin, enhancing soil and grass quality while ensuring the health of our chickens through natural methods. Our techniques include:

• Twice daily moves to fresh pasture

• GMO, antibiotic, and hormone free feed

• Adding carbon to soil for waste management and soil building

• Non-factory processing for cleaner final products

• Grass focused management that emphasizes allowing grass to recover after being used

"Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them...from pasture spot to pasture spot.

-Joel Salatin

Regenerative Farming Benefits

What is regenerative farming?

Regenerative farming focuses on improving soil health and ecosystem balance through sustainable practices. Additionally we look for natural solutions to any problems that occur.

Why do we use Thorvin kelp?

We use Cornish Cross chickens which are the same birds sold in regular food stores. They are notorious for growing so fast their organs and muscle can't keep up and they become debilitated as they grow. Thorvin kelp has all of the minerals that human blood has in the same ratios and provides the chickens with all of the support they need to process their food correctly and develop healthy bones, muscles, and organs so they grow healthy and happy.

What are chicken tractors and why do we use them?

Chicken tractors are mobile enclosures that allow chickens to forage on fresh grass, protects them predators, and prevents manure buildup and harmful bacteria.

The industry standard for space for a factory raised meat bird is less than 1 square foot for its entire life. Even for "free-range" chickens the standard is 8-10 square feet. Our pastured birds get access to over 100 square feet each! Because they are moved twice daily, they get 3 new square feet of fresh, clean grass to forage and recline on daily. This keeps the birds clean, prevents bacteria from having the opportunity to grow and infect the birds, and gives the birds access to chlorophyl (natures detoxicant), minerals, and vitamins in all of the various plants on our pasture.

What are the health benefits?

Our methods help prevent leg deformities and promote overall health in chickens. The health benefits extend to us who consume the birds as well. In a factory setting, the birds are stressed their entire lives, breathe in fecal particulate infested air, and eat nothing but grain and feed. The results show in their nutritional content, the texture of the chicken, and the flavor. We like to joke that our birds live spoiled, resort lives. They are happy and healthy and it shows in the end product. We had one incident where we had a crippled chicken. This occurred before we started using the Thorvin and aggressively moving our chickens. Since we added these changes, we've not had a single sick chicken.

Why do we emphasize healthy grass for a healthy planet and healthy chickens?

Grass is the most efficient solar panel that takes the sun's energy and converts it into brand new biomass on earth! It is 100% free, 100% renewable, and 100% clean. The various grasses also have specialties in bringing different minerals up out of the soil. As our birds forage these grasses, they are eating sunlight with a sprinkling of minerals in order to round out their natural feed intake. Because our chickens do not eat all of the biomass and they poop out a considerable amount, the grass and chickens work together to actually build the carbon layer and spread minerals into our soil.

Carbon on POOP?!

We have found that after moving our chicken tractors there is a certain aroma. Our motto is "If it stinks, we're doing it wrong!" With this in mind we began experimenting and found that by simply, lightly covering the birds' waste with wood chips or mulched leaves, the smell would immediately disappear. Not only that, the grass would not get burned by the high nitrogen content and the waste would process into the land faster.