Spring Fed Family Farms

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Spring Fed Family Farms

• Women owned and operated.
• Nourishing mind, body, and soil.
• Rotationally grazing pigs.
• Raising barefoot kids.
• Learning as we grow.

11/05/2025

Bonus for anyone who purchases a holiday ham this season is being able to tell everyone at Thanksgiving it’s from a pig that spent its entire life living in the woods, rooting around for nuts and bugs, trampling out invasive plant species, adding organic matter back to our soil, wallowing in the sun, eating non-gmo corn and soy free feed milled 30 minutes from the farm it was born and raised on, and occasionally breaking out of the electric fence and free ranging the entire 57 acres living its best pig life possible with all its friends, then taken to a local processor where it was thanked for the nourishment it will provide to all the families it feeds.

This stuff matters.

10/18/2025

Cornbread, the pig that knows how to sit and roll over until she got too fat to roll over, has a PSA:

BRATS ARE BACK.

After a long hiatus, we’ve got the good and faithful hatch green chili brat, maple links, and a new kid on the block: the ballpark brat. A simple smoked sausage brat.

As always, forest-raised and rotationally grazed, peanut meal and pecan-fed pork, with no synthetic anything.

Available at Scissortail and Tulsa Farmers Markets, and home deliveries to the OKC and Tulsa areas every week.

09/20/2025

No for spring fed today. Low on pork, over worked, & it’s my (allie) birthday.
So I slept in, am updating website inventory with chicken and beef (more pork coming Sunday), writing posts & emails, & helping & kids at today.

I’ve been struggling to keep up since adding an off the farm job, two kids in sports, & moving out of the tiny cabin.

Yesterday at my other job I had a meeting with my supervisors to go over PPFs (personal, professional, and financial goals) & I couldn’t come up with any personal goals. I told them I was struggling in this area, one of the reasons being because moving was taking up all my time. I couldn’t think past the things I was having to do currently to plan for what I wanted personally. My OPs manager pointed out I just accomplished one of my biggest personal goals: I moved out of the tiny cabin and into a bigger space. I have an actual kitchen to cook in (previously I only had a small electric cooktop), my kids each have their own rooms AND real closets, & I’ve got my horses in my back and front yard.

I can’t believe I almost missed it. Instead of realizing what had been accomplished my brain has been stuck in loops of what I still need to do, no space to acknowledge what has been done.

Yesterday, I was listening to a podcast that talked about this phenomenon. The Zygarnik effect describes how we focus on uncompleted tasks better than completed ones & it creates discomfort because our brains crave closure. This can be a good thing if you allow that discomfort to drive you. Problems arise when we get stuck. How do you not get stuck? Movement. Movement creates momentum and momentum fuels motivation. How do you move when the tasks at hand seem overwhelming? Baby steps. One small step at a time in the direction of the life you want.

One step forward, maybe two steps back, but then another forward, & then another. It’s okay to get stuck, but it’s not okay to stay stuck.

Instead of analysis paralysis getting me again, I made another baby step goal: paint the exterior of the mobile home & get new steel skirting because I’ve got the hookup now.

09/02/2025

It’s that time of year again 🎉
Whole, half, and quarter hogs are now available for pre-order.
•Forest raised, rotationally grazed, corn and soy free, pecan fed, old line duroc/spot/berk cross pork.
•Wholes $9/lb
•Halves $9.60/lb
•Quarters $10/lb
•Sold by packaged weight rather than hanging weight so you only pay for what you bring home.
•Processing and smoked and cured included. The only extras would be add-ons like brats or patties.
•Complete pricing breakdown with amounts of each cut to expect are on the website under “wholes, halves, and quarters.”
•Processing dates set for October.
•Ready for pickup/delivery beginning of November, just in time for holiday hams (planning a farm day to coincide with pickups).

08/28/2025

You know the meme that’s like, “I’m overwhelmed but starts a garden and gets a million farm animals?”

Hi, it’s me 👋🏻

Turns out chickens are a heck of a lot easier than hogs. Bonus points because they can’t destroy my mom’s rock-lined hosta garden.

As for the question about predation, it hasn’t been an issue, thanks to having multiple livestock guardian dogs.

Meat birds without tractors are doable.

08/15/2025

Tulsa, we’ve missed you! Macy will be back tomorrow at the 7-11 and I (Allie) will be at 9-1 tomorrow.

See you at the farmers market 🫶🏻

08/07/2025

My sister and brother-in-law gifted me Levi Lusko’s new book, Blessed Are the Spiraling. In it, he says, “New seasons require new strategies.”

The farm has entered a new season. After coming off record sales in the winter, I had high hopes for spring and summer, peak farmers’ market season. Then the rain came. Farmers’ markets are experiences. People don’t show up when the weather isn’t ideal. Foot traffic was slow, sales were low, and we slowly started the downward spiral.

To help keep the farm running, I searched for a side hustle. First, I sold my cows. When the cows were all gone, I sold piglets. When that still wasn’t enough, I found a job down the road from the farm at a steel factory making metal panels. I know it sounds strange, but I actually really enjoy it. I’m using my brain in a way I don’t on the farm. I got forklift certified, I’m running a massive roll former machine, and I get off every day at 2:30 so I’ll still be there when the kids get home from school.

The sad reality is that the majority of people producing food in our country either have dual incomes or also work an off-farm job. Farmers are praised for their labor because it is not glamorous work, but it is necessary work. It is grueling, it will wear you down, it hardly pays, it doesn’t matter the weather; there are animals and crops that depend on you for their survival, and people have to eat.

This is a new season for me. Managing my kids, the farm, and now adding a 40-hour off-the-farm work week has been a struggle. But new seasons require new strategies, and I’m working on them.

I may not show up on social media as much, but the pigs and the chickens are still thriving. We will still be at farmers’ markets every weekend, even when it rains, and home deliveries are still going out every week.

This is my passion project. This farm is my giveback to the world because just a few years ago, I found a farm, and it helped me find myself again.

“But the truth is, you don’t have to dread transitions. You can view them as catalyzing forces preparing you for the coming attractions of joy and development,” .

07/18/2025

Me to abby and ava: I need a cute pic of you guys with the maple links and pigs for IG.

Abby and ava and liam: 🫡

Maple breakfast links are making their debut at both and tomorrow morning.

Can’t make it to market? Order online for Tulsa and okc home deliveries going out next week 🫶🏻

Big big news in next week’s newsletter 👀

06/17/2025

Me: How many books have you written?
Will Harris: One. How many books will I write? One.

In A Bold Return to Giving a Damn, he says it all.

2,000 acres owned.
1,000 acres leased.
$30 million in revenue yearly.
$100,000 in labor weekly.
10 tons of waste generated a day that gets composted and returned back to the ground.

The scale is hard to wrap your head around, especially after meeting Will and seeing how down-to-earth he is. A good ol’ cattleman who will take the time out of his Sunday to show visitors around the farm.

The intentionality, the generosity, the wealth of knowledge accumulated in his 70 years—it’s no wonder White Oak is what it is today.

It’s proof that by simply giving a damn about the little things, down to the unseen microbes in the soil, and by returning to the natural cycles of nature, working with them rather than against them, abundance is the bounty.

The takeaway from our return trip to Bluffton, Georgia: we need to return to the basics and simply give a damn about something more than ourselves. We all play a part in contributing to the type of world we want for future generations. Our government isn’t going to do it for us, as seen recently in Georgia when SB144 passed, which effectively frees chemical companies of liability for any damages their products cause. That’s not for the people; that’s for the chemical companies’ pockets. They don’t give a damn about our health, but places like White Oak Pastures and people like Will Harris do.

05/21/2025

JUNE IS FULL! Still have spots for July’s Farm Kids camp!

05/15/2025

Year 1: Buying any pig I could find in the FB pig groups to meet demand.
Year 2: Started farrowing due to a lack of high-quality pigs available in my area.
Year 3: Brought in a new set of breeders to improve genetics that better fit my context.

Last year, I acquired a registered Old Line Duroc boar originally from John Brown. This year, I received the greatest gift of purchasing a set of Duroc sows originally from Hendricks Durocs from my pig friend , with whom I’ve had the pleasure of connecting through the good ol’ gram.

Why is this post worthy? Because genetics matter. Trying to place modern genetics that have been coddled in temperature-controlled barns into the woods, exposed to all elements, doesn’t work well. Illness and sows that can’t farrow unassisted will run you ragged. And it almost did for me.

Modern genetics have been bred for specific traits, and though I don’t agree with the methods, they are extremely efficient within the context of the industrial agriculture system.

But those modern genetics don’t fit within my context. In come the Old Line Durocs, a specific line of Durocs bred for what I’m trying to do and how I’m trying to do it here at my farm.

Year 1 goal: Raise pigs and raise them well.
Year 2 goal: Improve profit per pig.
Year 3 goal: Fine-tune farrowing (this is a continual work in progress) to meet my personal needs (no more having to pull piglets) and my farm’s needs (resiliency, better FCR, carcass quality, large litters) and provide high-quality hogs to other people in my area.

Our first few litters have hit the ground, which means it’s a step in the right direction toward accomplishing this year’s goal and developing the Duroc portion of my ideal pig. I’m still patiently waiting on to get me some GOS girls. These Duroc mommas aren’t as sweet as my spots. That matters to me.

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

Address

12515 S 417th W Avenue
Bristow, OK
74010

Telephone

+19186915675

Website

https://springfedfamilyfarms.grazecart.com/

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