Sugar Butte Farms

I was having a conversation with a new friend...

We were chatting about Sugar Butte farms, our mission, and why you may feel a different vibe from the business we have created. It was fun to discuss and share the conversation with Eric later that evening. After these two discussions, I realized that I may have never really put it out there.

Why the heck are we here?

Let me take you back to January 2018. We moved on to this muddy back road in a terrible snowstorm. Arguing, as couples do.

We were escaping the "big city" of Huntington, WV (listen up - it's BIG compared to where I grew up). We were seeking fulfillment, purpose, better health, and a more wholesome lifestyle. At the time, we figured we would utilize Joel Salatin's farming practices to build a homestead and sell to others so that we could sustain ourselves because heck, we couldn't find a farm that did all things to our liking.

As we carried on, we felt a very spiritual pull to the earth. One that we could not escape.

The flaws in the industrial food and farming system led us closer and closer to fulfilling the need to build a community.

Yikes. We got deeper.

Fair treatment of animals with one bad day. Need for a community of people who have the same beliefs.

But what if it's not just about the animals that we rais? What if it's not just about us?

There is so much more. The ecosystem as a whole has been destroyed by our selfish acts and the restoration is essential to the future of this world.

That's when we got serious. We had to learn to farm an entire ecosystem. From the microbes in the soil to the skeeters biting my legs at dusk, earthworms, the ever dying bird population, the pollinates and the list goes on... they need our human intelligence for the earth's restoration. They need the nitrogen and carbon that managing properly pasture animals provides. They need the sunny days, the heavy rain falls, and the restful winters. THEY NEED LITTLE FEET TRAMPLING THROUGH THE PASTURES DURING FARM TOURS AND VISITS TOO, because this next generation will know more than we know if we simply allow them to seee and explore.

So when you look at your plate and see your pristinely pastured meat (and soon to be veggies from Isaac's farm garden), I want you to know that your nourishment is simply a product that came from the earth's restoration. The bigger picture is what remains on these 80 acres that we call Sugar Butte Farms... not just what exists now... but what will remain after the abundance created after our 200 year plan has reached it's goal.