Grassroots Farm is a delightful place to grow up, hole up, stop by, fly through, build a nest, or even set-up camp for the long run. Whether you are an 85 pound pooch, a 200 pound hog or a virtually weightless barn swallow, we’ve got habitat and friendly accommodations to suit all needs.
CHICKENS AND EGGS
Beginning in 2012, Grassroots Farm will be offering pasture raised chicken, raised by us from day-old-chicks and hatched locally. Starting with just a few dozen birds, we will be feeding with locally sourced organic feed, providing round-the-clock access to fresh pasture and water, shelter from the elements, and an abundance of grubs, ants, worms and beetles. Birds will be available for sale mid-summer. Need a custom order of fresh or frozen chickens? Let us know if we can help.
Beginning in March of 2012, fresh certified organic brown eggs will be produced from a happy flock of seasonal free-range hens. At this time, our eggs will be available only on a limited basis but always priority to our worker-share and farm-side pick up CSA members. Our eggs are ALWAYS fresh, ungraded, and amazingly tasty. In late Fall of 2011 our flock retired to an “old chix home” in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where they continue a natural free-range lifestyle and their remaining eggs are donated to the local food pantry.
HOGS
Grassroots Farm pork is of the highest quality, best tasting, and most humanely raised available. We pasture our hogs and give them full access to shade and fresh water at all times. We raise our hogs in batches of no more than 8 per year, to keep conditions safer, healthier and more spacious. Our pigs are fed local rGBH-free whey from 20 pound piglet to 250 pound hog. Certified Organic locally grown barley, corn, and pasture forage make up the rest of their well-balanced diet. At this time, 2012 pork is available pre-ordered only by the the half or whole hog (120-160# of pork per hog), and you, the customer, custom select the cuts, cures, and smokes. Freshly finished 2011 pork is available by the select cut by emailing Lindsey at grassrootsfarm.wi@gmail.com. Interested in purchasing a 2012 half or more of farm raised pork? Check out our
2012 Pork Prices and Order Form
CATTLE
In Spring of 2011 Grassroots Farm welcomed our three grass eating beasts, Gillian, Jezebel, and Bruno. Respectively, a beautiful, calm, and curious Milking Shorthorn heifer; a bossy purebred Scottish Highland cow; and her yearling steer calf. These cows are provided year round access to pasture. Their grass based diet is supplemented with only certified organic and/or local GMO-FREE grains.
COMING IN 2012…
Keep us in mind for your 2012 holiday needs, as we try our first round of pastured turkeys. Also in 2012 we hope to harvest our first modest share of honey from Grassroots Farm’s small, but growing, apiary. Have a custom local and naturally raised animal product need? Email us if we can help.
The Four-legged Farm Helpers
DOGS
Ryegrass and Colby-Chevre are the first to greet all farm visitors, first to volunteer to help with meal preparation, and the first to fall asleep for the night… often by 7 p.m. We believe our lack of deer, mole, and bunny issues in the garden are a direct result of the world-class perimeter control by our canine farm team.
SHEEP
For the grazing season of 2011 we were joined by a quiet, grass munching herd of Kinkoona Farm’s sheep. We look forward to their quiet company on pasture again in 2012.
And Our Wild Creatures (with Assorted Legs and Even No Legs)
Expect to see bluebirds, swallows, rare or endangered butterflies, REAL ladybugs, wooly bears, a selection of moths, garden and wolf spiders, goldfinches and to hear a cardinal or see a woodpecker in one of our many ancient black-walnut trees. If you are lucky, you may see the occasional red-tailed hawk, wild turkey, oriole, woodchuck, skunk, garter snake (and rattler!), or even a flock of Sandhill Cranes passing overhead. On a day worth noting, you may have the privilege to connect with a bald eagle soaring above, a grey wolf on the horizon, a pheasant in the brush, a praying mantis draped over a cabbage plant, a hummingbird’s quick glance, or even a rare ichneumon wasp, curled against the bark of one of our “break-room” shade trees.
