The Farm - Sustainable Cattle Farming

We believe in caring for the land. The land is our backbone providing nutrients, shelter, and water. The quality of the water, wetlands, trees, and soil health not only affects us but also the area and its residents.  We therefore believe in using sustainable cattle farming practices. Every aspect of our business has been scrutinized for sustainability. We have adopted land management practices (see below for details), recycle materials and use them in the farming operation (e.g. reusing and building feeders, shelters etc), and use screenings from seed cleanings processes (instead of it going to waste) to enhance the overall well-being of the environment. 

Every spring / summer, we put the cattle on pasture when the grass has grown into the right maturity stage. Over the years, we have planted many trees throughout the farm. We are now expanding our windbreaks to help protect the soil from wind erosion. These barriers will also protect the cattle from the wind.  

There are several environmental sensitive areas including wetlands and riparian areas on our farm. Over the years, we have helped protect these areas by: 

Fencing them off and not growing a crop or putting in cattle.

We have been using water systems to keep cattle away from those water sources. 

We are now looking at improving these systems to include portable solar watering systems or sustainable alternate.  

We have also:

protected marshy areas around the farm.  

found the best way to maximize the environment by preserving the most trees. 

These changes have resulted:

an increased diverse ecosystem, 

higher quantities and varieties of ducks and birds, and 

increase plant varieties around the farm. 

As a result, we were recently awarded Parkland County Sustainability Producer of the Year Award for 2018.