Meet Our Farm Partners
NKIDSFARM
A big family with a small farm in Dexter, MI that raises a diverse mix of meat animals, including cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys. All animals are raised on pastures that are rotated with great care. They finish lambs with some grain throughout the entire year, but on pasture while grasses are growing. Cows and pigs are finished on pasture with grain supplements when necessary. They keep their own breeding stock of Hereford pigs, Belted Galloway cows, and Polypay sheep. nkidsfarm also sells animals by the half/whole, as well as wool bedding products and sheepskin rugs, on their website.
DANCER CREEK FARM
The priority at Dancer Creek Farm in Dexter, MI is to grow healthy food and families. Using pasture-based systems, they’ve raised all types of livestock.
Lane View Farm
Ridge Bollheimer and Lindsay Meckley of Cement City, MI raise Angus cattle using a grain- based diet, with free choice alfalfa/grass hay at all times. This is full flavored and delicious beef raised with care for the highest quality tasting experience.
Lesser Farms
Lesser Farms business plan is quite simple: they are a fifth-generation family farm in Dexter, Michigan that sells what they produce. They believe food is at its best when it's locally produced and sold.
Their Holstein cattle are humanely raised and handled with no growth hormones added. Lesser Farms produce all the hay and grain in their animal’s diets.
They are committed to personal care of their cattle, their land, you the customer, and to being a partner in sustainable agriculture.
Baseline Farm
Baseline Farm raises grass-fed beef cattle in Dexter, Michigan on about 200 acres of perennial pastures. The cattle are heritage breeds: White Parks, British Whites, Galloways and Corrientes. Some of them have horns and some of them have big horns. They all live outside year round and drink good quality well water. They have lots of trees to rub on and, if you come to visit them, you will see they are curious and friendly (most of them).
Casey Acres
Casey Acres LLC is a small farm located in Tipton, Michigan, where poultry is raised in small batches on pasture. The mission of Casey Acres is to responsibly and sustainably produce wholesome food for local markets, while being good stewards of the land and animals under our care.
JNELSON FARMS
As a 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef operation, it is the mission and vision of JNelson Farms to provide a nutritious, responsibly raised, superior product. Carefully selected Black Angus and Red Angus cattle are especially well-suited for life in lush pastures, enjoying supplemental hay in carefully managed paddocks on their 280+ acre farm headquartered in Hope, Michigan. They are certified with the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program (MAEAP) as a livestock operation.
GOLDFINCH FARM
The Goldenberg family raises poultry on pasture in Saline, using rotational grazing methodologies in order to raise tasty, high quality meat while adding nutrients back to the soil, and controlling invasive species.
Bastian Farms
Bastian Farms is in Ypsilanti, MI and pasture-raises Berkshire hogs from farrow-to-finish.
cottonwood
Cottonwood Farm is a 5-acre parcel of land on Farrell Rd in Webster Township, right around the corner from the Township Hall. They are farmers, carpenters, artists, teachers, engineers, and authors, and all have one thing in common—a desire to work the land and to connect with the earth in the way of countless generations before them.
great lakes lamb
Jim and Sherrie Bristol and Rick and Elaine Palm have a strong family history of farming in America, and now are two generations continuing that heritage together in northeast Michigan. Their family appreciates caring for the land and animals, and would like future generations to have the same opportunity.
whitney farmstead
Malaika Whitney & Matthew Haarklou (alongside our 3 young children), have been farming and ranching here for 11 years, carrying on a family legacy of stewarding this land that began in 1900 by Malaika’s great great grandparents. They raise 100% grassfed beef & lamb, pastured pork & chicken, and maple syrup. They practice regenerative ranching which means we work with our livestock to tend to perennial pastures in a way that builds soil heath, creates habitat, protects watersheds and encourages ecological vibrancy and diversity. The result of this method of land stewardship is deeply nutritious food in the form of beef, lamb, chicken, and pork.
Patriot Pig Farm
Patriot Pig Farm started with one acre of leased land while my wife Emily and I were living in a subdivision. Like many first-generation farmers, I started with nothing but determination and a willingness to learn. Thanks to the guidance of my mentor Thomas Trowbridge (Trowbridge Spot Farm Archbold, OH) I started my farm with two Spotted Poland China sows.
Since our founding in March 2020, Patriot Pig Farm has operated as a farrow-to-finish farm, raising our hogs from birth to harvest. We take tremendous pride in producing high-quality pork and have sold direct-to-consumer, feeding families who value farm-to-table meat and knowing exactly where their food comes from.