January: Bent Limb Farm LLC
Bent Limb Farm LLC is a family-owned, pasture-based farm located in the rolling countryside of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Founded and operated by Pam Ellenberger and her husband, Paul Stelmach, The farm is rooted in a deep commitment to humane animal care, environmental stewardship, and producing food with integrity. From their Shoemakersville farmstead, Bent Limb Farm demonstrates how thoughtful, small-scale farming can benefit animals, land, and community alike.
At Bent Limb Farm, animals are raised outdoors on pasture with room to roam, root, graze, and express natural behaviors. Livestock are fed non-GMO feed, are never given growth hormones, and are raised without routine antibiotics, with health supported through good nutrition, low-stress handling, and natural remedies whenever possible. This pasture-based approach promotes healthier animals and aligns with the farm’s belief that animal welfare is foundational to good farming.
The farm practices rotational grazing to protect soil health, prevent overgrazing, and naturally fertilize pastures, helping to build fertile, resilient land over time. Diverse species play complementary roles on the farm, contributing to a balanced ecosystem that supports long-term sustainability.
Bent Limb Farm stands as a model of responsible, humane agriculture, where animals are treated with respect, the land is carefully tended, and farming decisions are guided by ethics rather than convenience-- benefits evident to all visitors to the farm.
December: White Oak Meadows
White Oak Meadows is a family-owned, pasture-based farm nestled in the heart of Wilsons, Virginia. Founded in 2013, this regenerative farm is dedicated to raising animals humanely and nourishing both the land and community with integrity.
They offer 100% grass-fed beef, raw dairy through a herdshare program, pastured poultry and eggs, forest-raised pork, and raw honey. Every animal is raised on open pastures without the use of hormones, antibiotics, or synthetic chemicals. Their pigs and poultry enjoy a soy-free, non-GMO feed—part of the farm’s commitment to clean, wholesome nutrition.
With practices like rotational grazing, cover cropping, and holistic land management, White Oak Meadows prioritizes soil health, biodiversity, and long-term sustainability. The result? Nutrient-dense food and a thriving farm ecosystem.
Whether you're sourcing real food or supporting ethical agriculture, White Oak Meadows is a shining example of transparency, care, and community-rooted farming.
November: Singing Pastures
At Singing Pastures, John and Holly Arbuckle are proving that the healthiest food begins with happy animals and living soil. On their rolling pastures in coastal Maine, pigs roam freely under open skies, rooting and grazing the way nature intended. Every animal is raised outdoors year-round, allowing for sunshine, exercise, and natural behaviors that factory farms simply can’t replicate.
Rather than confining animals in crowded barns, the Arbuckles use rotational grazing to move their pigs to fresh grass regularly-enriching the soil, restoring native grasses, and helping wildlife thrive. This holistic approach eliminates the need for antibiotics or growth stimulants and supports a vibrant ecosystem where healthy animals, fertile land, and clean water coexist.
The farm also produces pasture-raised chicken eggs and participates in nutrient-density research in partnership with Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture through a SARE grant; demonstrating their commitment to transparency and continuous improvement in soil health and food quality.
Singing Pastures stands as a model of humane, regenerative farming, where every animal enjoys a life of care and respect, and every acre tells a story of stewardship, integrity, and hope for a better food system.
Singing Pastures also does 3rd party monitoring of their Bobolink population (grassland birds) through
Ag Allies. They have had their Bobolink numbers go up year over year since they took over management in 2018.
October: MKVT Farm
Located in Glover, Vermont, MKVT Farm is built on sustainable and ethical farming practices. Our animals are raised with care, respect, and compassion - roaming open pastures, breathing fresh air, and living happy, healthy lives. We offer a wide variety of pasture-raised meats (lamb, pork, beef, chicken, turkey, and rabbit) along with farm-fresh eggs. Seasonal produce, sheep and lamb hides, and handcrafted lamb tallow soap round out the farm’s bounty, bringing wholesome quality from our land to your table and home. Choosing MKVT Farm means peace of mind, knowing your food is safe, sustainable, and ethically sourced.
Farm Tours
We love sharing our way of life. Spend an hour with Mark as he guides you around the farm. As a courtesy and respect for our time, a fee of $50 per hour is greatly appreciated.
Heritage & Recognition
We are proud to be the first farm in the Western Hemisphere with Dutch Spotted Sheep. The closeup of the ram 1202 is the very first Dutch Spotted Sheep born in North America, MKVT LC Laddie ET.
His face is the official emblem of the Dutch Spotted Sheep Society.
Voted the 2024 Vermont Fantastic Farmer
Website: MKVT FARM
Orders or Questions Email: mkvt.farm@gmail.com
September: All In Thyme Farm
All In Thyme Farm is a small, diverse farm set on 25 beautiful acres in Newport, Maine—just south of bustling Bangor. For Rose, a lifelong sustainable farmer, this is more than a farm; it’s a dream rooted in hard work, stewardship, and a love of good food.
The animals at All In Thyme thrive on open pasture and shaded woodlands, raised with respect and care. Heritage-breed pigs wander pasture and woods, producing richly flavored pork that locals can’t stop talking about—while naturally restoring long-neglected fields. Gulf Coast sheep graze lush timothy-clover pastures like they own it — and honestly, they kind of do. Yielding lamb and fine wool prized by hand-spinners and fiber artists. Listed as critically endangered by The Livestock Conservancy, these sheep are thriving here thanks to the farm’s dedication to keeping rare breeds alive and well.
Pastured poultry—chickens and turkeys—roam the grasslands, following the pigs to clean up pests while fertilizing the soil. The hens repay this freedom with fresh, golden-yolked eggs, while guinea fowl patrol every corner of the farm, eating ticks and raising a joyful racket that keeps the farmer smiling.
The farm’s no-till garlic beds are fed with compost made right on-site, proving that healthy soil is the foundation for everything grown and raised here. Customers rave about the deep flavor and quality of All In Thyme meats and eggs, a testament to Rose’s belief that when animals and land are cared for in harmony, the results speak for themselves.
All In Thyme Farm is more than a place—it’s a way of farming that honors the past, nurtures the present, and builds a healthier future.
All In Thyme Farm isn’t just where I live and work — it’s proof that good farming can feed the body and the soul.
August: Gravel Pit Farm
We started this farm in 2017 with one mission; to know where our meals were coming from. It started as our meals and what we shared around the holidays with family. Then our neighbors asked for some beef. Our friends asked us to buy some pork. The family gatherings became annual events (including our wedding).
We started as a couple with a dream of a sustainable future, and that's now grown. It's a 75 acre dream that we want to share with all those who are interested in having high quality produce and protein.
This passion for our farm is a full time job on top of our regular days' work. Our family thinks we are crazy for the long hours, but in the end, it's all worth it.
Truly, thank you for supporting local businesses and family farms. We are honored that you selected our products to feed your family.
Kindly and humbly,
Allan & Sammy
July: Tom Cail
This farm became certified organic in 2013 although farmed without chemicals 10 years prior. Current production is small grains, hay and a diverse cover crop rotation. The main livestock focus is swine and honey bees. The cover crops pull double duty of soil fertility and bee food. No off farm soil admendments such as conventional poultry litter are used. Nearlly 100% of U.S. organic farms depend on poultry litter which contain residues such as certain antibiotics and arsenic-based compounds, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides and phytoestrogens.
A 4 year ongoing swine production trial of intensive grazing Berkshire pigs on succulant legumes and feeding small grains (mostly barley) is being practiced. No corn or soybeans are fed. This is a farrow to finish operation with pigs born in March on pasture and moved to the alfalfa and clover field in May. The hogs are sold in the fall.
The field rotation starts with early fall tilling and sowing Winter barley. In late Winter alfalfa and Alsike clover are under sowed into the small grain. After harvesting the barley in June, 1 hay cutting is taken and the field left fallow. The next year the pigs are placed on the field and grazed. The 3rd year hay is harvested and the rotation started again.
Tillage is done once every 3 years vs growing organic corn and soybeans and tilling each field 10 to 15 times releasing carbon into the atmosphere each pass.
These pigs live happy lives!
June: Double K Ranch
At Double K Ranch, animal welfare is at the heart of everything they do. Unlike conventional feedlot operations, their animals are never confined to cramped, unsanitary spaces. Instead, cattle and pigs roam freely on open pastures year-round, where they are grass-fed and finished. This approach not only improves the health and well-being of the animals, but also supports natural fertilization of the land, as waste is absorbed into the pastures rather than accumulating in harmful ways. Hogs are fed a local, GMO-free, corn- and soy-free diet, reducing stress on the animals and eliminating exposure to the negative health impacts of industrial feed.
The ranch’s commitment to ethical and sustainable animal care is reinforced by their on-site meat processing facility. Because animals are raised, processed, and sold all in one place, they avoid the stress and disorientation of being transported across states, which is common in large-scale meat production. This not only reduces emissions but ensures the animals are handled with consistency and care throughout their lives. By maintaining control over the entire process, Double K Ranch can guarantee humane treatment from pasture to product.
Additionally, Double K Ranch minimizes waste and environmental harm in ways that directly support animal health. Inedible by-products from processing are composted to enrich the soil, supporting a healthier ecosystem for grazing animals. The ranch also powers its meat shop largely through solar energy and recycles everything possible. These practices not only support a cleaner environment but create a healthier, less stressful setting for the animals. The result is ethically raised, local meat from animals who lived full, natural lives in harmony with the land.
May: Open Barn Farm
At Open Barn Farm, we’re on a mission to reconnect families with real food and natural living. Rooted in regenerative practices, everything we do is designed to nourish our bodies, heal our soil, and strengthen our community.
Our animals are pasture-raised with care—never given vaccines, antibiotics, or subjected to the harsh treatment so common in industrial systems. We honor each animal by raising them humanely and embracing a nose-to-tail philosophy, ensuring nothing goes to waste.
Beyond our nutrient-dense meat, we make the most of what our animals provide by rendering their fat into deeply nourishing tallow-based skincare and non-toxic candles. It's all part of our commitment to sustainable, intentional living—from pasture to pantry, and beyond.
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April: Cottingham Farm
We like to think our farm has a little bit of everything natural and good and regenerative:
-A woodland that provides respite to deer and disappearing species like the Delmarva Fox squirrel
-A wetland that hosts ducks, geese and wading shorebirds
-Deep-rooted perennial grass buffer strips around most of our fields that provide food and habitat to wildlife while retaining soil and water and protecting the Chesapeake Bay tributary that runs along the farm
-For our customers, fields, pastures and passive solar greenhouses where we grow year-round glorious, clean, nutrient-dense food:
- rich buttery heritage chicken (whole, half or spatchcocked)
- all cuts of Berkshire and Tamworth pork from bacon and chops to shanks and leaf lard
- blue, chocolate, green, brown, cream, tan, olive and every so often purple eggs from our wandering hens.
- a rich assortment of organic produce, from heirloom tomatoes, asparagus and sweet greens to horn peppers, cardoon and strawberries, all of which are USDA certified organic.
We like to think our customers care as much about “how” their food is raised as they do about “where” it is raised. All of our pigs, laying hens, meat birds and roos (the incubated laying eggs that turn out to be males) are raised on organic pasture, fed our certified organic veggies, and fed certified organic feed that we buy from a nearby farmer. Being organic means we have long focused on building healthy, alive, biodiverse soil in order to create healthy food, healthy animals and healthy people. We rebuild, re-mineralize, and restore the fungal-bacterial balance in our soils. Then, rather than using toxic sprays linked to public health concerns, pollinator loss and waterway degradation to control pests, weeds and diseases, the organic system uses natural biological inputs as well as “cultural practices” like rotation, beneficial insects, and keeping the earth covered. As an added benefit unknown until fairly recently, healthy soil holds carbon in the ground beneath our feet! So by voting with your fork three times a day every day YOU are reversing climate change while you eat delicious healthy food.
But you’ll not only be doing good, you’ll be eating well… you’ll see and taste the difference in your food! Great food doesn’t start in the kitchen. It starts with animals humanely raised outdoors on organic green grass in warm sunshine with organic supplemental feed and clean water. And it starts with crops curated by a farmer focused on nutrient density and flavor rather than yield- from selecting varieties to growing practices to fresh hand-harvesting for each of Tues, Thurs and Sat markets 52 weeks a year. This is real food you can trust for your family. When food is raised as nature intended, a great meal is sure to follow.
Cheers to good food! https://cottinghamfarm.com/
March: All Grass Farms
All Grass Farms is a diversified family farm located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We became interested in growing more of our own food in 2010 after watching the documentary Food Inc. and reading Omnivore's Dilemma, among other books documenting the deteriorating quality of conventional food and the toxic system raising it. We started farming on the 8.5 acres in our backyard in 2012, and today manage 550 acres on two separate farms, selling most of our products through our onsite farm store in Dundee, Illinois.
We strive to raise our animals and grow our produce using the most natural, humane, and environmentally sustainable farming practices possible. For the animals, "natural" means raising them in an environment they are accustomed to from hundreds or thousands of years of evolution, eating what nature intended them to eat, and allowing them to express their animal instincts. For garden produce, we use heirloom and organic varieties of plants that are acclimated to our climate and soils, so they can thrive without artificial fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides.
We compost all of the wood shavings/bedding from the brooder coop and winter chicken housing, as well as the dairy cows lounging area in the barn yard and spread it on the gardens and pastures in the spring and fall. This natural fertilizer and organic compounds enhance soil structure, build organic matter and prepare it for the spring growing season.
Our greatest joy is watching our animals exercise their natural instincts: grazing, foraging, wallowing, moving, running, scratching, socializing and rooting in the woods and pastures.
Farm Store: 847-852-7081
February: 1984 Farms
We're first-generation, regenerative agriculture farmers and we're passionate about healthy soil, healthy animals, and healthy humans. As regenerative ag farmers, our animals naturally fertilize the earth, and are regularly rotated to fresh pasture to keep our soil vibrant with microbes.
We raise truly clean, grass-finished beef and lamb, and pastured corn/soy free pork and poultry. We provide nutrient-dense, vaccine-free, American-raised meat right to your door.
January: Blue Dasher Farm
Blue Dasher Farm prioritizes regeneration of the soil and the land we are housed on, building community, and nurturing life while providing food, fiber, and goods. A farm is like a living being, changing, shifting reacting, adding, and becoming new over and over again. As Blue Dasher continues to evolve, livestock has remained an important aspect of our farm, integrating them with the ecosystem of the prairie and farmstead. Our honeybees, poultry and flock of hair sheep are Blue Dasher staples that have helped to shape our identity and provide products like meat, eggs and raw honey. We have continued to build the diversity of goods produced on Blue Dasher over the years, with a “motley crew” mixed flock and some small groups of animals including alpacas, pigs and mini-horses. These allow us to learn, gain experience and experiment with mixed flocks, small scale farming, and connecting with animals and living systems in new and creative ways.
The plant systems have become an ever-increasing priority for Blue Dasher, with increased focus on our orchards, miniature vineyard, and cut flower gardens. We have established new growing beds with minimal disturbances, integrated animals to help shape the endemic growth, and utilized composted animal bedding to fertilize these beds. We continue to learn the best ways to integrate our plant systems with our livestock, and look forward to sharing our experiences.
Blue Dasher Farm is a place of community and gathering, where we invite guests for events or tours of the farm, to stroll the flowers and, to meet all the animals or simply to recharge their spirits sitting on the native, unbroken prairie.
It is also the home base for the non-profit research organization Ecdysis Foundation. One of our most important products is the next generation of farmers and scientists, learning the right questions to ask and reconnecting with the land and our food system. The farm provides a training ground and hands-on experience in farming for the next generation of scientists, researchers and farmers. Ecdysis research spans across North America to measure the outcomes of various regenerative practices.
