Our Story

 

Introductions

Here’s a quick video about us and our farm!

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We’re sisters, Danielle and Sabrina. We grew up on a small dairy farm with daily chores of feeding calves and chickens, collecting eggs, and when the time came, helping to process chickens. In the 90’s our parents eventually made the tough decision to sell the dairy herd, Dad got a job farming for someone else, and we moved to our grandparents smaller, 40-acre farm. As we got older each of our paths diverted and we spent a number of years in different jobs. While we appreciated the skills and relationships we gained, something was still missing...

In 2014 we decided to raise a couple hogs for our family’s home butchering. We soon realized spending evenings and weekends on the farm didn’t seem like work at all. Instead it reminded us of our farm life growing up! After long days at work, it always perks us up spending time with our babes; giving them good belly rubs and hearty scratches behind the ears.

With our third litter of weaned piglets we decided to save two of the best girls to give breeding and farrowing a shot. We've dealt with a lot of complications, tears, and sleepless nights with the first couple litters, but weren’t completely discouraged. That’s when we knew for certain this was it! If we could make it through that and still look forward to the next one, that's a good sign. We're still learning a lot, but that is part of the journey and the fun of it. There's never a dull day!

Today our two brothers are raising crops on 1,000+ acres in the area, which also provides the corn for our hog feed. Their headquarters are at our parents farm, which is also the headquarters for us too. We're all sharing some pieces of our grandparents farm, which I think would've made them happy, carrying on as the 7th generation of farmers.

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Our Philosophy

Health, nutrition, and lots of love are our guiding tenets. Healthy land, healthy animals, healthy people. We believe the energy and quality that we put into our animals, is what you get out of them. Providing healthy diets, compassionate care, and an environment they can thrive on makes for happy, stress-free animals and a high quality product. Our love for our animals give us a great amount of accountability to give them the best lives we can while they’re with us.