How We Raise Beef

  • 100% Grass Fed & Finished

  • 100% Lifetime All Grass Diet

  • Antibiotic & Hormone Free

  • Raised in harmony with the grassland ecosystems of Vermont

  • Cattle rotated twice per day during the grazing season

  • Pastures rested and recovered between grazings

  • No confinement or feedlots

  • No herbicides or pesticides on the ranch, or used in any of the hay fields to produce winter hay.

  • Raised using soil health principles

  • No tillage in fields

  • No monocrops

  • No chemicals

  • Low stress livestock handling using positive reinforcement

Read more below about how we raise 100% grass fed beef!

Grass and forage are the only feed source consumed for the lifetime of the animal, with the exception of milk consumed prior to weaning.

  • Diet is derived solely from forage consisting of grass (annual and perennial), forbs (e.g., legumes, brassicas), browse, or cereal grain crops in the vegetative (pre-grain) state.

  • Animals are not fed corn or grain or grain byproducts. 

  • Hay, haylage, baleage, crop residue without grain, and other roughage sources may also be included as acceptable feed sources.

  • Cattle are never fed or injected with any sort of artificial hormone, steroid, or growth enhancer

  • Cattle are never fed or injected with any antibiotics

  • Cattle have never been fed animal or fish by-products of any kind (e.g., bone meal, hog fat, etc.), or any Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)

  • Cattle are raised using Regenerative Agriculture. This means cattle are rotated with a temporary fence to new pasture once per day. All pastures are given at least 40 days of rest before being grazed again. The pastures are never cropped, hayed, or sprayed with herbicides or pesticides. The pasture is never grazed below 5’’ in length and there is vegetative cover on all of the fields. Cattle are managed in a way that utilizes fresh grass and tramples standing dead grass into the soil to feed the soil microbiology. We reseed high use areas of pasture with pasture grass mixes spread via a broadcaster mounted on the back of an ATV. This method reduces soil compaction and involves no tilth. We do not till pastures here or grow any crops.

  • Cattle are raised humanely on pasture 365 days a year with free choice access to a barn during times of inclement weather. Cattle are never in a feedlot. There are no cattle prods used to move cattle. We use low stress livestock management with positive reinforcement. Cattle are raised on pasture with free access to a barn. Cattle have free choice access to water that is pumped from a well to a trough in their daily paddock location.