About Us:

Fat Rooster Farm is a small, diversified family farm that has adopted organic methods of production. The vegetables are grown with hay, wool and biodegradable mulches. The United States National Organic Program does not allow the biodegradable mulch that is allowed in organic production in Europe and Canada, but it does allow the plastic mulch produced from petrochemicals (which eventually ends up in our landfills at the end of the growing season). Because of this, Fat Rooster Farm does not seek organic certification.

Families of crops are grown on three-year rotations to reduce insect and disease potential. The fertilizer used on the fields is from the animals raised here along with green manure cover crops and companion planting. All of these methods help build soil fertility and minimize plowing to maintain good soil structure.

Very little is fed to the animals that is not grown on the farm, with the exception of the poultry that is fed non-GMO grain, and the pigs, who eat non-GMO grain, vegetable scraps, milk waste from the neighboring farm, and compost. None of the animals are given hormones, de-wormers or antibiotics.

The sheep are rotationally grazed to reduce parasite loads in the environment, and non-resistant animals are culled from the flock.