09/03/2026
There is a lot of red tape around cleaning and saving seed. Patented and GMO seed comes with contracts that doing so violates federal law. Corporate giants own the seed, the source of our food.
However, untreated and non gmo rye is not one of them and in its natural state cannot be patented.
We’re not just growing our livestock feed, not just building soil biology, we’re planting and harvesting the seed we can too.
As farmers we have endless opportunities but to make any of those work we have to make investments, take risks and carry the weight of failure.
And if farms can’t afford to take risks?
We become stale.
We hit ceilings.
We follow.
Expenses outweigh income.
And small farms shut down.
The biggest risk we’ve taken was becoming certified organic.
10 years ago we took that risk. Not only opening a door to an organic marketplace for our products but to independence.
No one owns this seed.
No one can tell us how much it costs.
No one can tell us we can’t grow our own to keep.
An investment in our longevity as a business. Not only for generations to come but in real time.
When you buy a product from our farm you’re supporting projects like this.
You support local food security.
You support small farmers.
You know where the seed that grew the food that fed the meat that sits on your plate is from.
Agriculture is an intricate web and we believe that transparency helps connect people to good food.
We all have choices to make.
It might seem like searching out a farm like ours is just about getting a cow in your freezer but make no mistake that the opportunity to directly support farms making investments to become independent and sustainable can be the difference in another 50 years of life for such a resource.
