Frequently Asked Questions

We make every effort to keep our products affordable for anyone who wants to try them. One key way to do that is keeping shipping costs down. That’s why we don’t ship outside of a 200-mile radius and also why we try to group orders together as much as possible. 

Shipping only close to home and only when we have multiple orders helps us keep our product close in price to what you might buy in the grocery aisle, even if their quality isn’t as good as ours. That said, anyone can stop at the farm to pick up product by calling ahead and placing an order!

We treat our animals with the utmost respect and care, recognizing our responsibility for them. In addition to just simply being the right thing to do morally to treat our animals with the respect that God has called us to show, it is also a matter of food safety and economic sustainability.

Think about it this way. We earn our living from this business, and we feed our family, our own children, from the bounty of this farm.

Animals that are poorly cared for oftentimes do not thrive, can be prone to disease, and as a result, may not produce a safe wholesome product that you would choose to feed your children.

Why would we intentionally do the wrong thing to produce an inferior product that is not economically sustainable and potentially unsafe? It’s hard for us to think of a reason. It just makes no sense any way you look at it, not to do a great job of caring for the animals that we have been entrusted to watch over. Come see for yourself.

We don’t believe we need, nor do we want, government involved in anything we do. The founders of our nation did an incredible job in defining the role of government when they crafted the Constitution, a fact that is lost on many people in our nation. Nowhere in that wonderfully pure work do the founders talk about how the government should regulate specific items in our daily life, not the least of which is the food we should eat.

As such, the government can’t do anything to certify our product that you can’t do yourself. All it takes is a little courage to develop a relationship with us, ask us a bunch of questions, and, if you would like, make a trip out to the farm to visit with us face to face and see for yourself how clean and beautiful this land is when it’s managed sustainably, with respect for the generations that are yet to come.

There is no way that the government can act as a surrogate for you when trying to understand how your food was raised. So ask yourself, “Why would we want to be certified, when together we can do the same thing by developing a relationship with one another?”

Yes, they do. At certain times of the year, especially in winter, we provide our animals access to shelter. That’s typically either a stand of trees in the timber for the cows or a building with walls and a roof for the poultry and pigs.

To understand that a little better, think about your dog or cat and then think about the coldest day of the winter here in the Midwest. Would you intentionally choose to kick your dog or cat outside for the entire night with no shelter of any sort? No dog house, no wall to get behind, no protection from predators? If they didn’t freeze to death, they would get eaten by the coyotes before the first glimmer of morning light. So why would we choose to be idealists and ask our animals to be without shelter? We wouldn’t. We would be poor caretakers if we did.