Perry’s Corners Farm is an OLD SCHOOL farm – the location of an old school and our farming practices reflect the traditional diversified family farm. We have cows and sheep and pigs and chickens and a large garden. We produce REAL FOOD from animals raised in their natural environments and vegetables grown in healthy soil.
We live in a world that tries to hide where our food comes from and what is in it. Healthy food is important to me and growing my own food became the solution to accessing it. I wanted to know how my vegetables were grown and what kind of life the animals had. Did the chickens get to scratch around in the dirt? Were the pigs happy? Were vegetables grown in soil that was being improved year after year with natural composting methods? Or was it being depleted of nutrients and exhausted? Eating healthy became more than just what I ate, but how the production methods impact the environment and our community.
We raise a Canadian heritage breed of cows called Lynch Linebacks. They are the descendants of the cattle that the English settlers brought to Canada and began breeding to suit our climate. They are hardy cows and excellent foragers. Their smaller size is perfect for our small farm and your freezer.
Pastured Pork
Forget everything you think you know about pork. The pork produced on our farm is nothing like what is in the grocery store. Our heritage breeds have a well marbled, darker and more flavourful meat. They are raised outdoors, get lots of exercise and eat a varied natural diet and a ration of non-GMO grains.
Grass-Fed Lamb
Our small flock of sheep is growing each year. The sheep have their lambs in the early spring and they grow quickly, rotating though the pasture all summer. We have bred for genetic hardiness and parasite resistance so that we can raise happy healthy lambs without the use of drugs and chemicals.
Pastured Chicken
The meat birds on our farm are raised in shelters we moved along the pasture so that the chickens have fresh grass each day. They get fresh air, natural sun light and the shelters keep them safe from predators and protect them from the elements. They eat what nature has to offer and a ration of non-GMO grains.
Our Values
Our animal management and farming practices build and improve the soil and pasture, enhance biodiversity and heal the land.
We raise heritage breeds of livestock on the farm through all stages of their lives. We calve/lamb/farrow seasonally, as nature intended.
All animals have access to outdoors/fresh pasture, free to express their natural instincts.
The animals eat real food, as much as we can produce ourselves or through partnerships with like-minded farmers and neighbours.
The cows and sheep are 100% grass fed, we use managed intensive rotational grazing and we cut and bale hay for winter feed.
The laying hens free range and the pigs rotate through their pig paddocks. They get all the extra vegetables from the garden and what nature has to offer – grass and forages, walnuts, acorns, grubs and insects. As we grow, we hope to produce all our feed on farm, but until then, we buy certified organic oats, peas and barely and certified organic feed grade vegetables.
Fertility for the vegetables we grow in the garden is produced on farm. Our ability to produce an abundance of food – and what allows us to share the garden harvest with more than a dozen families – has been the wealth of fertility the animals contribute to the farm.
