Our beef is not certified organic. We rely on direct relationships with our customers to certify our processes. We are transparent. You can ask us directly about how we raise our animals and we are happy to share that information with you. We also invite you to our Annual Field Day to meet our team and see the land and animals.
We call it “First Person Certified” and invite you to audit us anytime.
For the record:
- Our animals are fed no grain, nor are they given hormones.
- They are raised and finished on grass.
- They do not need and are not given sub-therapeutic antibiotics.
- They are never put in feedlots.
- Our beef is certified grassfed by the American Grassfed Association (AGA), which adheres to strict standards that verify the animals' diet and humane treatment. We are regularly audited by the AGA, whose standards can be found at: http://www.americangrassfed.org/about-us/our-standards/
Our practice regarding animal health is: one, prevent health problems with good nutrition, clean habitat and proper, low-stress handling methods; two, use alternative therapies when possible; and, three, if antibiotics are used at all after the animal is weaned at seven months of age, the animal is not sold to our grass-finished beef customers. We do supplement their diet with a small bit of alfalfa during their second summer.
Finally, managed in a herd as they are, our animals can fill their natural ecological niche, maintaining the health of the land with their every step. We believe our practices honor the land and the animals in ways that industrial agriculture does not and cannot, and therefore, that our standards actually reach, in important ways, beyond those of "organic."
