We provide your hay-eating small pets and larger animals safe, healthy, tasty, 2nd & 3rd cutting hay with absolutely no additives, herbicides, or pesticides; that is a fresh natural mix of non-GMO grasses and clover. The orchard grass is just as good if not better than Timothy grass. Our small KY family farm genuinely desires to implement sustainable farming practices that are wholesome, clean, an
d pure by ending the use of chemical farming practices that harm our soil and our health. We nurture our soil and use sustainable, clean, organic farming practices which include continuous soil and hay lab testing and then verified by 3rd party U.S. of Agriculture (USDA) and Real Organic Project (ROP). About Us:
We don’t have close relationships with the supply farmers; we ARE the farmers. We are at least 4th generation farmers and 3rd generation on our family farm in central Kentucky. We don’t have warehouses; we have hay barns on our farm. We have 50 acres of hay in 4 fields all adjacent to each other; 2 of the fields within a stone’s throw of our house. Our hay is a mixture of 100% organic orchard grass, endophyte-free Kora fescue and red and white clover. This is a healthy mixture of natural fiber and protein. There’s no need to manually/ unnaturally mix grasses/legumes. There are no additives, preservatives, pesticides or GMO products. We’ve been supplying healthy organic hay to horse and livestock farms for a couple of years. We produce small square bales of hay – dimensions are 35”x18”x14” and stored in our hay barns. These bales range from 40lb to 60lb and average about 50lb, depending on how much clover happens to be in that bale. Sometimes when pressed for time (rain clouds) we will “farm out” round baling to a local farmer. These bales range in size depending on the round baler from 4x5 ft to 5x5 ft that can weigh as much as 1300lb. We started to supply small pet owners with hay in the fall of 2020. We ship directly from our barns to your pet with the mission of the least amount of processing as possible. We separate the hay bale “flakes” (1-2” slices) that together form the small square bale of hay. We place these flakes of hay into the simple plain kraft corrugated box. We don’t chop up, mix, add to or alter it. We hand pack each box that goes out so we see and smell it before shipping it. All of this to make your little pet happy with lots of natural variation. Each box will have varying amounts of the types of grasses (primarily Orchard grass) and legumes (clover) depending on the field topography and soil types that we are blessed with in Kentucky. This is exactly what your pet would see, smell and consume in the wild. We are relatively new to the organic world, about 5 years including our transition time and became certified organic June, 2019. We are certified organic by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and approved to use the USDA Certified Organic seal. We are in the USDA Organic Integrity Database (https://organic.ams.usda.gov/integrity/ ). We are still learning about organic hay and rebuilding our soil after decades of conventional corn/soybean production. Growing and harvesting hay in Kentucky isn’t easy, especially utilizing organic practices. The rainy weather in the spring and typical dry weather in late summer can be very challenging. We don’t irrigate our fields, so if we go weeks and months with very little rain, then productivity is significantly affected. Our organic certified grass and clover seed and organic inputs/ fertilizers (chicken litter, gypsum, etc.) are all expensive and not easy to find close by our farm. But we think it’s worth it to build up the soil to sustain productivity for many decades and to provide very healthy hay for your small pets (and for horses, cattle, sheep).
