Yonah Mountain Farms

05/28/2026

Whole wings + a hot grill = hard to beat. 🔥🍗

Simple, delicious, and packed with flavor. Just season them up, throw them on the grill, and finish with your favorite BBQ sauce for the perfect pasture-raised meal.

We’re fully stocked just in time for next Tuesday’s home delivery! Order now at YonahMountainFarms.com

05/27/2026

05/17/2026

People ask all the time why our chicken tastes different.

This is why.

Fresh pasture. Sunshine. Fresh air. Constant movement. Real forage opportunities. Clean ground. Open structures. A spring-fed creek. Birds actually living like chickens.

We intentionally raise our broilers in a way that encourages movement and natural behavior instead of confinement and rapid weight gain at all costs.

These birds aren’t just surviving on pasture… they’re thriving on it.

And yes — meat birds absolutely do forage when they’re given the opportunity.

This is what pasture-raised is supposed to look like.

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05/13/2026

“Pasture-raised” can mean a lot of different things.

A lot of pasture poultry is still raised in small chicken tractors with very limited space per bird. That system is definitely an improvement over confinement barns, but we wanted to take it a step further.

Our broilers live in large pasture paddocks with open shelters and electric netting that gets moved regularly onto fresh grass.

The difference in bird behavior is obvious:
More movement.
More foraging.
More natural behavior.

And in our opinion, you can taste the difference too.

This is what we mean when we say our chickens are raised on pasture.

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05/04/2026

Farming isn’t a straight line.

Plans shift. Animals move. Conditions change.

You learn pretty quick that the work doesn’t care how convenient your day is—it just needs to get done.

So you adjust, you keep things moving, and you stay with it.

That’s the job.

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05/03/2026

Close enough! 🤣

05/01/2026

This is our sheep and goats managing a creek bank with adaptive multi-paddock grazing.

Left unmanaged, livestock can absolutely wreck a place like this. But with the right pressure, at the right time, and then getting them out of there, it becomes a tool instead of a problem.

We run a multi-species flerd, tight paddocks, moved daily. They come in, hit it hard, cycle nutrients, disturb the soil surface, and then they’re gone.

They won’t be back here until next year. That rest is where the real work happens—recovery, deeper roots, stronger plants, better water infiltration, and breaking parasite cycles.

No drugs. No chemicals. Just forage, minerals, and working with creation instead of against it.

This is how we build healthier animals, healthier soil, and a more resilient system.

04/30/2026

Rain changes everything.

After a dry stretch, one good rain and the whole system wakes up—grass pushing, bugs hatching, birds going to work.

This is why we run small, regenerative, multi-species livestock. It’s not about forcing production… it’s about being ready when nature flips the switch.

Stacking chickens behind ruminants, letting each species do its job, building soil instead of burning it down.

Most folks don’t realize how quickly land can respond when it’s managed right. This is what resilience actually looks like.

And yeah… days like this make it hard to be anywhere else.

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04/29/2026

Y’all already know the story… our eggs got pulled and replaced with commercial eggs at one of our markets.

It’s a tough situation, and honestly it highlights a bigger issue. The way regulations are currently written makes it really hard for small farms like ours to get truly fresh, pasture-raised eggs into retail without going through large-scale systems.

We scaled up to meet the demand—put in the time, feed, and labor—and overnight, a big piece of the income that keeps this farm running disappeared.

But we’re not going to cut corners to make up for it.

We’re doubling down on what matters: freshness, quality, and doing things the right way. Every egg we sell is as fresh as it gets. And anything that doesn’t sell that week goes straight to families in need across North Georgia through North Georgia Food Outreach.

That means our customers get the premium eggs they expect, and nothing goes to waste.

We’ll take the hit and keep moving forward.

04/29/2026

It really is a mess—and it starts way before it ever hits the grocery store.

Most chicken today is raised for speed and efficiency. Birds are bred to grow fast, kept in controlled environments, and everything is built around producing as much as possible, as quickly as possible.

Then you get into processing.

Everything is centralized and high-volume and relies on heavy chemical and disinfectant use .It has to. That means long supply chains, a lot of handling, and product that can sit for a while before it ever makes it to the shelf.

By the time you’re buying it, there’s a pretty big disconnect between the animal and what’s on your plate.

That’s the system.

There’s another way to do it—but it doesn’t scale the same, and it doesn’t fit neatly into that model.

Slower growth.
Pasture.
Fresh air and sunlight.
Smaller batches.
Closer to the source.

It’s not perfect, but it’s real.

And once you start paying attention to how your food is raised and handled, it’s hard to ignore the difference.