Grass Fed Meats      (Why grass fed?)

Pasture Raised Eggs:
Available Year Round.

      Laying hens are a specialty at Day Spring Farm as the Baker children care for them daily. The hens are housed at night in an Eggmobile, a portable chicken house. It has a spacious portable yard and is rotated weekly to fresh pasture. The house protects the hens at night and gives them a clean place to lay their eggs, and the fence protects them from predators by offering a safe alternative to free-ranging.


Pastured Poultry:
Available from May-December

      Broilers are raised here, from the time they are day-old chicks, in heated brooders with access to fresh water and natural feed. When they are old enough, they are moved to portable field shelters in the pasture. The shelters provide them with protection from predators. The birds are moved to fresh grass daily to allow for a clean environment to roam in and plenty to eat. By raising the birds in ample space, they can engage in natural behaviors like scratching the ground for insects and eating grass. While on pasture, they have access to sunshine, fresh air, fresh water, grain and nature’s best…grass! Turkeys are raised much like the chickens and are allowed to roam in the green grass and sun the way our Creator designed them to. If you have never had chicken raised on pasture before, you will be amazed at the great taste. Stewing hens are sometimes available.


Grass-fed Lamb and Wool:
Available Year Round.

      Grass fed lamb from our Romney and Romney cross sheep is the most delicious meat you will ever taste. We harvest all of our lambs after they are full grown. The lambs are raised by their mothers in the rolling pastures and they are weaned and grown on grass until they are large enough to harvest. The grass fed meat is delicious, lean and healthy. Lamb is available by the cut or by custom order,

Wool from our sheep is available in raw fleece, roving, yarn and pelts. Our yarns are custom colored with natural dyes, or sold natural without dye. No chemicals here!





Grass-fed Beef:
Available Year Round.

      Scottish Highland Cattle are one of the oldest breeds of beef cattle. They are sturdy animals with long shaggy hair to withstand any kind of weather. Both cows and bulls have horns, which create a dramatic appearance. Highlands are good foragers, making good use of the grass they eat. They are naturally lean because they store their fat in a layer under their skin instead of the fat being marbled throughout the meat. As a result they are very low in cholesterol. Our herd is raised in a model like God intended, by rotationally grazing them on pasture with no grain supplements. The calves remain with their mothers until they are weaned, and then they finish on grass.

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      Why Grass Fed?

      There are many reasons to choose Naturally Raised Grass-Fed Meats.

1. Nutrition: Grass-fed meats have less saturated fat and cholesterol and fewer calories. They are high in Omega 3 fatty acids(the good fats that fight cancer), and rich in vitamins E, C and Beta-carotene. Commercial meat that is finished with corn and other products is very fattening. Unlike grocery store meats that are raised in confinement facilities and require large amounts of antibiotics because of the disease and sickness associated with being confined, naturally raised meats DO NOT receive unnecessary antibiotics.


2. Back to Basics: Grass is an animal’s natural diet, which allows them to grow at their natural rate as they did centuries ago. Heritage breeds are traditional domestic livestock that were raised for centuries and are now endangered because of the mass production of commercial breeds. Heritage breeds are slower growing (which makes them tastier), hardier and much healthier than the newer crossbreeds. Our beef, lamb, turkeys, and laying hens are heritage breeds.


3. Going Green: Our farm uses no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. We conserve fuel by grass feeding instead of corn feeding and shipping feeds across the country. We process the animals locally at a USDA approved abattoir minimizing stress on animals and fuel costs. By rotationally grazing animals instead of housing them in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO’s), we naturally enrich the soil without causing a pollution problem of having excessive manure in small spaces.

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Our Prayer:

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the Dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1:78,79