About Us

We are both native Michiganders – growing up just a few minutes away from Michigan State University gave us an awareness of agriculture, though neither of us are from farming families. We’re also 2010 graduates of Grand Valley State University, and called West Michigan home for over a decade before MOOving to our forever farm in Eaton Rapids.

We discovered the writings of Michael Pollen and Joel Salatin in college, which led to working on several farms – from an apple orchard, an organic vegetable farm to a conventional dairy farm. Experience is, of course, the best teacher and we’ve never stopped learning to perfect our craft.

We farm full-time with our 4 children, two part-time farm workers (Ryan & Cindi!!), cattle dog (Carlita) and barn cats.

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Managed grazing is known by a lot of names - rotational grazing, intensive grazing, mob grazing, strip grazing, etc. All of them are generally alluding to similar methods - managing how many animals, in how much pasture, for how much time, and with h
We enjoyed the happiest of Earth Days!! 💙🌎💚 … The cows are officially starting their grazing season with short (4-6 hour) windows of time to graze. ☘️ … We are still offering hay as they transition their rumen from wet baleage to gra
Spring turkey hunting success!! 🦃 … Two mornings of hunting and weeks of patterning the flock of turkeys that live around our farm, and Dan got this dandy of a tom! 👏 … He was BIG and mature - sporting a very long beard and some huge
The cutest farm labor 💙💚 … Does anyone else wish you could perpetually have a 3 year old in tow? They are the most enthusiastic workers, highly observant, always willing to learn and ask lots of awesome questions. 😅 … We are patientl
Evening family pasture walk 🌱 … Checking the soil saturation and grass growth at various locations on the farm, and starting to sketch out our grazing / haying plan for the season. 🚜 … We gave a wide berth to the does, toms & hens
A glimpse into our farm week 🚜 … The kids worked with their 4H group to clean up the fairgrounds in exchange for their wristbands - free entry into the fair this summer! 💪 … The boys found a rabbit family slaughter earlier this week -
Like our pastures, we are just waiting to break out of the holding pattern we’ve been in for weeks now. 🙂 … Life is starting to calm down after an epically awful March. We’re fixing a lot of things that broke (adding our farm truc
We started Sunday morning off with a dusting of snow and have been enjoying so much sunshine since then ☀️ … March has come in like a lion in our life - do you ever have weeks in which EVERYTHING HAPPENS?! That’s been March for us! 😂 &h
Beautiful “winter” heifer born this week!! 😍 … Normally this is the depths of winter but it feels like this little lady has arrived as a spring babe! ☀️ … If you’re a weather nerd like us, or a gardener/farmer or want
Oooooo it’s too real! That blue sky! The warmth of the sun! The cows are ready for spring and so are we! 🌱 … While there’s nothing to graze, they still have access to the dormant pasture every day to stretch their legs and nap in
This week… … We saw the SUN. ☀️ It was WARM. Also, spring birds are starting to return and Baylor picked me a dandelion growing in our yard today. Strange things for February.🤔 … The sh*t finally thawed so we could dig out the m
New Year, New Adventures! 💚🤍 … A long time ago, far, far away…😜 Dan planner to become a History & Social Studies teacher, maybe even professor. He was accepting into a grad program in Florida but when I got a local job after grad
This week was the end of an era 😭 … We finally retired Peggy Sue, the 3rd cow we ever purchased on a snowy Super Bowl Sunday. 🤯 … She has served our herd well, having 11 calves in her 13 years with high milk production for long lactat
It’s been difficult to document life this week since we’ve been outside without phones for days now. 📱 … They’ve been dying from the cold within a few minutes of going outside. ❄️ … We’ve been thawing water line
*Snow* Work & Play ❄️ … All the animals are fed, barns & cement cleaned, clean bedding to every group 💪 We are ready for the arctic air coming this way!! … Kids played & sledded for 3 hours - we had to pull them inside to r
We are back!! ❄️💙 … Back from a social media hiatus and back from our first trip leaving the Mitten in 4 years!! 🤯 … All my mom wanted for her 60th (!!) birthday this year was a family trip to her favorite dude ranch in AZ 🌵How wonde
Whether you’re new to this account (or farm!) or you’ve been here from the beginning, we’re so happy that you’re here! 😀 … This quote from Henri Alain really resonated with me as we wrap up our 11th season of farming a
Found some cute farm boys while feeding the cows 🐄 … We had another baby born this week and two more due before the end of the month! 🎄 … #babycows #littlehumans #mamacows #humanmama #winteronthefarm #farmkids #farmboys #cowsofinstagr
Another baby this week!! 🐮 … This time it was an Angus cross bull calf - he’s a big, healthy boy and mama is going great! 💪 … It was a COLD stretch of weather for him to be born but lots of dry straw in his hutch and he’s