Why we do it
We left the hustle and bustle of New York in spring 2021 and bought a rare piece of untouched land at the Florida / Georgia border. We realized the food overlords in the USA were intentionally poisoning us all, and we were done participating. Food should not need to have the word organic in front of its name to be safe to eat. Now the word is so lightly used, even that isn’t credible.
What is credible? Knowing your rancher. Knowing the specific practices they used on the animal you are eating. Knowing the ground beef you are eating came from one animal, who lived on grass, in the sun, as God intended.
In the fall of 2021 we purchased a small herd of black angus heifers from a lifelong rancher who became a mentor to us. We paired them with our first full blood Japanese Wagyu bull and started breeding American Wagyu.
In February of 2022, we added our first A2 Jersey heifer. Initially meant to be the family dairy cow, KellyAnne developed an immediate bond hand milking Dolly and we started offering raw milk for sale. We never expected to become a dairy, but if you would have told us in 2020 we would move to Florida to buy a farm, we would have had a good laugh. As God provides the path, we keep following His will.
By 2024, what started as 13 head of cattle had grown to 46 and we were maxed out on our small farm. We were in need of adding more land and more cows to keep up with the blessing of loyal customers who believed in our mission.
In August 2025, we expanded to include steer finishing in Tallahasee in partnership with Lotus Hill. This is a strategic location close to our processing facility with the most nutrient dense pastures in Florida, with over 10 acres per cow. We were now able to increase our breeding program and purchase cows that were started holistically and matched our principles and methods.
In December 2025, we added an on farm market at our home farm. The market is not open to the public, and is for our food club members only. This is a great place to browse all we have available, and also includes an organic pantry with many items that are hard to find in supermarkets and grocery stores. The market offering is growing and will soon offer our pastured heritage chicken and forest raised Berkshire pork from our dear friends farm. All items sold in the market are of the highest quality, with the most stringent standards for whole foods and chemical free meat, dairy, produce and baked goods.
In January 2026, we were blessed with the opportunity to lease a beautiful property in Pavo, Georgia, about 30 miles from our home farm. We added 12 registered, fully traceable Japanese Wagyu momma cows and are now breeding full blood Japanese Wagyu cattle at this location. This farm is now one of the only 100% pasture raised & grain free Japanese Wagyu operations in America.
As of October 2026, we have expanded our partnership with Lotus Hill, and are now offering beautiful South Poll Steers to our members. We will be offering the South Poll breed as 1/4, 1/2, and whole steer sales only at this time. See our online market for more details. For more info about the South Poll breed, click here.
In January 2027, we will begin a new breeding program at the Lotus Hill property. One of our full blood Japanese Wagyu bulls has been paired with a large herd of unvaccinated, chemical free South Poll heifers, and we will be crossing these 2 breeds as the next phase of producing the perfect grass fattened beef. All our practices are implemented with this herd… no vaccines, hormones, and chemicals ever, exclusively on pasture, grass fed and finished; always pesticide and herbicide free pastures…even the winter hay is from the same farm. This is a huge step for us as our business scales, and while the returns are three years away, we will have updates as the herd matures!
We are a truly a family operation, and we have divided responsibilities and taken advantage of each individual’s interests. KellyAnne is the general manager of the farm and is solely responsible for the cow dairy operation, from milking to creating all products we offer for sale. Frank runs the beef program and manages the herds and processing. Our sons take care of the birds on a day to day basis, including moving the tractors, collecting eggs, and feeding.
More info about our on farm practices is available below.
Thank you for taking the time to view our website. Come visit us at the farm!
-KellyAnne & Frank
The Earth is a gift from God and we have the responsibility to care for it with respect.
As stewards of the land, our practices reflect this commitment to nurture and protect:
Our cattle are always on pasture. We practice management-intensive rotational grazing, moving our cattle frequently through small electric fenced paddocks before forage is overgrazed, followed by sufficient rest and recovery to encourage rapid regrowth and improve soil health.
During the winter months, we plant a diverse mix of seasonal cover crops to provide our cattle with fresh forage when warm-season grasses are dormant. This allows the herd to continue grazing while keeping living roots in the soil, protecting the ground from erosion, improving water retention, and supporting beneficial soil biology. We include nitrogen-fixing legumes alongside grasses and other forage species to help improve the soil’s natural nitrogen balance, build organic matter, and prepare the pastures for vigorous spring growth.
Our pastures are fertilized with pasteurized organic chicken manure, no chemicals ever.
We have diverse pastures, some farmers would refer to them as “weedy”. Many of these are plants the cows enjoy. The weeds they leave behind are typically still beneficial to the soil or a signal alerting us as to what the soil is lacking. In the case we need to remove a particular invasive plant, it is hand pulled or we use Contact Organics weed killer. Nothing else ever.
Our hay is sourced from two farms within 10 miles. We feed dairy cows Bermuda coastal that is pesticide free as a roughage supplement year round. It comes from a neighboring farm that does not spray the fields. In the winter we feed all our cows fermented perennial peanut hay, as we find the high protein and fermented benefits are worth the cost.
As a supplement to whatever they forage, our chickens, dairy cows, pigs and goats are fed certified NGMO grains with nutritional rations made by Fertrell; the leader in organic minerals and supplements. All our feeds are soy free, pesticide free, hexane free, and mixed by Triple M Farms in Lebanon, PA just days prior to shipment to us. To our knowledge, there is not a more nutrient dense whole grain feed available today. We also provide access to these feeds to the local farming community.
We breed Wagyu and Jersey cattle, Nigerian dwarf and mini Nubian goats, Heritage Berkshire Pigs and Maremma sheep dogs. We raise heritage chickens on the cattle pastures for both meat and eggs. The animals are never vaccinated, medicated, provided with hormones or chemicals. When we say unvaccinated, we don’t mean just mRNA. We do not use any vaccines ever. We maintain a closed beef herd with strict biosecurity measures in place to protect our animals from outside contaminants and disease. As we are growing our dairy herd to meet demand, all new heifers must undergo a full gamut of health testing before they can be brought to the farm. We have found that although we have been repeatedly told we will fail, the key to bypassing conventional, or better said chemical standards of care is providing increased space for the animals to thrive.
Our cows are hand-milked and monitored daily for udder health, with routine on-farm testing to help ensure the quality and safety of our milk. In addition, milk samples are submitted quarterly to an independent third-party laboratory for testing and verification of milk quality, including SPC and coliform. Consistent favorable results confirms the health of our cows as well as the cleanliness of our process of producing and bottling healthy and safe nutrient dense milk. Critical thinker note: As Per Florida Law, all raw dairy is marked not for human consumption and for calves only.
About Our Grass Fattened Beef
All beef is processed at a local USDA facility and is custom cut to our specification. For whole & Half beef shares, they are cut to your specification, under our close watch. It’s always vacuum packed and when we ship, it is always on dry ice. For full and half beef shares, please check out our whole cow beef buying guide page, use the contact us for more information or fill out the cut list at the bottom of the page and send us an email.
Most beef is Wagyu / Angus cross, known to most steak lovers as American Wagyu. We do have a small quantity of other crosses and rarely a full blood Wagyu comes available. Contact us for more information on full blood wagyu availability and to get on the waiting list for our platinum program.
The words “Grass Fed” do not matter anymore. It is a greenwashed, misleading term that is intended to hide details….When farms started bringing cut grass to the cows who live on concrete slabs in barns, yet had the ability to still call the beef grass fed, you can no longer value this term.
But there is more to it than marketing, and the main reason all beef is not created equal are variables. The bloodline and genetics matter. The quality of the pasture forage matters. The cows digestive health matters. The hay they eat over the winter matters. Selenium balance matters. The age they were butchered at really matters. You get our point… There are a ton of variables between great pastured beef and tough, metallic flavored meat called “grass fed”.
Grass Fed needs to mean raised on pasture for their entire lives, and fattened on grass until ready. You may find a handful of other farms who explain it like this, but there are not many. What is the main reason ranchers finish cows with grain?… to fatten them. To increase intramuscular fat also known as marbling. Do cows need grain to have high intramuscular fat… no, they do not. Do cows need grain to have high intramuscular fat at 1.5-2 years of age and be ready to process…. yes they do! And now you understand the stark difference between grass fattened beef, and grain fattened beef…. time. Double the time in fact. Our Steers are on pasture for a minimum of 3 years before they are even considered for processing. Why does it matter to be grass fattened? From a nutrition perspective, there are some real benefits. In actual scientific terms, not some media slop science, there are 2-3 fold more phytochemical antioxidants, higher levels of vitamins A and E, more omega-3 fatty acids, and increased conjugated linoleic acid which is associated with heart health. It is typically 60% lower in total fat and less caloric than grain fed beef. It contains more trace minerals due to the natural foraging on chemical free, fertile soil. Everyone should be eating pastured beef. Besides the health benefits, grass fattened beef is truly delicious. The fat is not heavy and greasy, and is enjoyable to eat. There is little to no grizzle. It is not heavy on the gut, and certainly something that should be in your weekly diet.
Yes, its more expensive to raise cattle this way. Yes, we need to charge more for our beef. But the result, if we must say so ourselves, is the best beef to dollar ratio available.
All our beef is vaccine free, hormone and chemical free, herbicide free, raised on pesticide free pastures, never given antibiotics, nurtured with OGS gut health solution, provided Redmond’s high selenium ancient salt supplements, and free choice fertrell organic minerals supplements.
All our beef is dry aged 28 days before butchering. We find this provides the best balance of tenderness and enhanced flavor of the high quality beef.
The result is a superior tasting, nutrient dense meat. Healthy beef does not have to be mediocre….we will prove it to you.