Regenerative Practices For A Better Future
Our practices ensure healthier animals, a thriving environment, and superior-quality meat for your table.
From farm to table, we guarantee no growth hormones, GMOs, or antibiotics, just 100% grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork. Our practices are designed to enhance soil and water quality, ensuring the health benefits of our products with every bite.
100% Grass-Fed, Grass-Finished Beef
Raised on family farms across Wisconsin, our cattle enjoy a natural diet of pasture forages and hay, ensuring lean, flavorful, and tender beef without the environmental footprint of feedlots.
Regeneratively Pastured Pork
Our pasture-raised pork hails from Wisconsin family farms, where pigs have access to the outdoors and graze on well-managed pastures. Raised without antibiotics or growth hormones, they enjoy low-stress handling and rotational grazing for their health and happiness and the vitality of our pastures.
"FANTASTIC - Wisconsin based, farmer owned, ethical animal rearing practices!"
- Cottonwood Farms
Good for You. Good for the Land.
Our practices ensure healthier animals, a thriving environment, and superior-quality meat for your table.
- From farm to table, we guarantee no growth hormones, GMOs, or antibiotics, just 100% grass-fed beef and pasture-raised pork.
- Our rotational grazing allows for better nutrient distribution, soil stability, and a biodiverse ecosystem.
- Our practices ensure rainfall absorption, preventing runoff and preserving clean aquifers.
- In every action, we build trust through transparency. Our animals are traceable from farm to table, so you can enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing the origin of your food. Read more about how our farmers ensure total transparency below.
Benefits for grass-fed and pastured raised livestock
1. Defining Rotational / Managed Grazing
Managed grazing, also called rotational grazing, is a type of regenerative farming that benefits the environment, herd health, wildlife, and our families – all at the same time! When livestock are moved on a regular basis – typically daily – to new pasture to feed, it gives them access to higher quality feed, prevents waste, and allows for good nutrient distribution.
Plus, rotational grazing also gives the plants in the paddocks a chance to recover and re-grow.
Because the land is in sod – grasses and legumes such as clover and alfalfa – the topsoil (and nutrients) stay in place, leaving little chance for runoff or erosion.
2. Environmental Benefits
Properly managed pastures have more diverse plant life and their soils teem with beneficial microorganisms that turn animal and plant “waste” material into soil rich in organic matter. Rainfall is better absorbed, preventing runoff and keeping aquifers cleaned and recharged.
There is now evidence that perennial pastures can sequester even more carbon than woodlands, whereas tilled crops such as corn and soybeans both require more fuel to plant and harvest, but also release greenhouse gasses after harvest as the leaves and stalks decay.
Since the livestock harvest their own feed and spread their own manure during the growing season, less fuel and machinery is used. This enhances the environment for wildlife, especially in the spring when ground-nesting birds and other immature animals are hidden in the grass!
3. Livestock Benefits
Rotational grazing improves livestock health, and keeps vet costs low by reducing the stress that can come from overcrowding in confinement operations.
Since they are regularly moved to fresh paddocks, our animals have far less exposure to flies and manure. Yes, this takes more planning and careful observation on the part of the farmer, but we think it’s well worth the effort!
Cattle who have access to diverse plant life can choose what they need for a balanced diet and best of all they are outside getting plenty of exercise, sunshine and fresh Wisconsin air and water!
