Yellow Hutch Farm

Our grass-based system of frequent pasture rotations, working with nature, and not administering unnecessary antibiotics or growth hormones ensures the highest quality, most nutrient dense, cleanest food you can get. And the flavor is unlike anything you will find at the supermarket. A cornerstone of our mission is that our animals get to live as nature intended, allowed to fully express their distinct and unique characteristics. What's more natural than a chicken scratching around for bugs and the proverbial worm? Or pigs under the shade of hardwoods, rooting and searching for every last acorn? If you close your eyes and imagine cattle grazing, do you think of content cows grazing on lush green pastures? If you open your eyes at Yellow Hutch Farm, that is exactly what you will see. You will never see our ruminant cattle eating things they are not designed by nature to eat. Supermarket beef is fattened in confinement feedlots on corn, ground animal protein (dead chickens); Yellow Hutch Farm cattle eat grass, and grass alone. Our pigs and chickens supplement their forage with a non-medicated, non-GMO ration, just as nature intended. PASTURED BROILERS These birds come to the farm as day old chicks and then begin their life in our brooder where they are started on their non-medicated, non-GMO, corn and soy FREE feed. After about 3 weeks, they are feathered out and ready to go out on pasture. They live in portable shelters, called Chicken Tractors, and are moved EVERY DAY to fresh grass where they can forage for protein and fertilize at the same time. At around 8 weeks, they will be ready to process. We will offer whole birds to start. If you are interested in cut up birds, let us know and we can incorporate that into our planning. PASTURED AND FORESTED PORK Pigs are amazing creatures. We love the utility of the animal and the quality of the meat they provide. We raise our pigs outdoors - no ammonia filled confinement houses here - rotating around the farm protected by portable electric fencing. They start in the garden area, rooting and tilling the soil, while foraging any yummy leftover vegetables. Then they move through the rougher pasture areas, helping to clean up the overgrowth and fertilize as they go. Finally, the pigs will finish in the woods, where they can root for morsels and glean anything they want from the tree nuts and leaf litter. They always have access to a balanced, non-GMO, corn and soy FREE feed ration. Pork will be available by the cut, and as a discounted bulk purchase of a whole or half animal that is custom cut to your specifications. SALAD BAR BEEF This is the top product for us and the one that I am most excited about. In my opinion, grass-fed and finished beef is THE most regenerative protein source we have. A cow's job is to convert sunshine into food by way of grass. Cattle that are managed in an intensive rotational system - where they are moved every day to fresh pasture - do wonders to rebuild soil health and animal welfare. Like the bison on the Great Plains, the cattle move together in a group, controlled this time by portable electric fencing rather than the predators of the plains. This creates a short-term pasture disturbance then followed by a long period of rest. It allows the pasture to rebuild its roots and proliferate. Over time, this management system builds organic matter and produces a very diverse diet for the animals (hence the Salad Bar moniker), and we never have to feed grain, shovel manure, or buy chemical fertilizers. The sales program is the same as pork, with the addition of a "split-half" option. This is the equivalent a quarter beef, but you don't have to choose between the front or rear quarter, you get half of each.