The Farm
Where philosophy meets ground.
The Land
A quarter section of mixed pasture, hayfield, and forest in Athabasca County, about an hour north of Edmonton, backing onto crown land. Grassland birds, pollinators, native plants — the kind of ecological richness that only comes from land that hasn't been simplified. Everything downstream starts here.
Rotational grazing, no synthetic inputs. We're building soil organic matter year over year, and we measure our success by one question: is there more life here than when we started?
The Dairy
The morning starts with the cows.
We milk two cows daily with a third coming along. Brown Swiss, Jersey, and Holstein crosses — A2A2 protein, BB kappa-casein. Exceptional milk for drinking and cheese making. Pasture in the summer, hay in the winter — from our own fields and carefully sourced local producers. We're selective about what goes in.
From the milk: butter, cream, yogurt, and cheese — soft and hard. All equipment sanitized with hypochlorous acid, the same molecule your white blood cells produce. Generated from salt, water, and electricity. Breaks down to salt water. No residue.
Pastured Poultry & Livestock
We couldn't find clean chicken. So we raised our own.
Meat birds on pasture. No corn, no soy, no canola in the feed.
Laying hens free-range across the property all day and put themselves back in the coop at night. Eggs from birds that spend their day foraging look the part — yolks a deep, dark orange, not the pale yellow of a grain-only diet.
Sheep are earning their place here two ways. Right now it's mostly meat — pasture-raised lamb is some of the most nourishing meat we produce. We're also gradually adding fiber breeds alongside the meat flock. But the sheep may matter most for what they do to the ground: they graze differently than cattle, cleaning up what the cows pass over, and pasture that carries both is healthier than pasture that carries either alone.
We also raise pigs on pasture, fed the same way — organically, on a species-appropriate diet.
We're not perfect — the bar is high and we don't always hit it. But we're always working to get closer. The way an animal lives is not separate from the food it provides.
