“Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.” - Alan Savory

  • Principles We Live By at Ridgemeade Farm

    TRANSPARENCY

    We hold an open-farm-gate policy. Anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime. We harbor no trade secrets and nothing is hidden behind the curtain.

    PASTURE-BASED

    Pastured livestock is on fresh grass 100% of the time, moved daily and/or weekly to fresh growth. This heals the landscape, sequesters carbon, and creates unparalleled nutritional superiority from happy, healthy animals.

    ANIMAL NATURE IS NURTURED

    Plants and animals are provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness - what our mentor Joel Salatin calls respecting and honoring the “pigness of the pig” even if it means less convenience for us.

    COMMUNITY

    We believe in the Integrity Food movement. We must all seek clean, ethically cultivated, transparent foods produced closer to home while trying to eat more seasonally to guarantee freshness and respect for the earth’s capabilities.

    BIOMIMICRY

    By mimicking natural patterns instead of flouting them, we avoid degradation of the land, disease, and suppression of the natural ecological systems on our land. This helps ensure moral and ethical boundaries and symbiotic practices within our agricultural activities that not only restore local ecosystems but also foster and support native wildlife rather than eliminate it.

    CARBON SEQUESTRATION

    We’re actually in the business of farming grass… which means we’re in the business of farming earthworms, nematodes, bacteria and fungi in the soil. Stimulating soil biota is our first priority. Soil health creates healthy food and builds true, generational stability. We believe the basis for life and dynamically sustainable ecology is soil health. “From dust to dust” “All Flesh is Grass.”

    8 FORMS OF CAPITAL

    Our modern world seems hell-bent on a financial bottom line that pleases shareholders at any cost. A slight improvement came with the concept of the triple bottom line, taking into equal consideration the Financial, Social, and Environmental impacts of human activity. For us, that isn’t good enough. Instead, we are 100% dedicated to constant monitoring and enhancement of the 8 Forms of Capital as brilliantly described by the concept coiner - Ethan Soloviev. These include Living, Cultural, Experiential, Intellectual, Spiritual, Social, Material, and finally, Financial capital. We encourage you to learn more HERE.


    100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

    You are what you eat. More accurately, you are what you eat eats. That means the most important decision you will make every day is where you get your food and what foods you choose to eat. Making that choice, however, can be a real challenge. The words found on packaging at the grocery store are unclear and misleading and continue to be coopted by the industrial system, compromising the integrity of their claims and the words themselves.

    When you shop with us, you will find that we treat you like the best of friends and nourish you like family. In fact, that’s why we got into this - Your health and your confidence are our priorities as much as our own health and the health and happiness of our land and animals. For this reason, we care less about transient terms like “organic”, “regenerative”, “natural”, and “biodynamic” and simply keep adopting the best possible practices that embody what those terms are actually supposed to mean. For that reason, we can’t label ourselves. We believe so strongly in the quality of what we do that we offer a 100% money-back Satisfaction Guarantee on all of our products, all of the time, for any reason and we enthusiastically welcome you to visit our farm to see how we do what we do.