The most important factor to producing healthy grassfed beef is growing grass naturally. To produce healthy grass naturally, there are many obstacles.

1. Chicken litter from commercial houses has organic matter and builds topsoil, but arsenic and growth hormones given to the chickens are passed through to the soil. It also grows weeds in abundance.

2. Commercial Synthetic Fertilizer- heavy doses of Nitrogen kill beneficial bacteria and earthworms in the soil,

So our approach is to use management intensitve grazing, which moves the cattle in a mob every one to two days to mimick nature, and to give the soil rest. This builds the soil by giving more rest and distributing manure more evenly. The heavy mob affect and long periods of rest is beneifical to the soil.

We are also using compost, which while more expensive is an organic approach that builds top soil and enables the soil to build up micronutrients as well as the major soil compounds.

Finally, we plant legumes (white clover), which capture nitrogen from the atmosphere naturally, 100 to 140 pounds a year naturally.

This is part of our comprehensive commitment to have healthy soils naturally. Healthy mineral content in the soild without unnatural additives will mean healther beef that contains healthy micronutrients

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