In their words.
Canal Junction Natural Meats & Farmstead Cheese is a grass-based farming operation where we believe in raising our animals for food the way God intended them to be raised. We have a dairy herd along with BEEF, PORK, LAMB, broiler CHICKENS, TURKEYS and layers. We direct market all of the products that we produce on the farm. We recently started to make RAW MILK CHEESE from our own milk. The dairy, beef, and lambs are 100% grassfed. They do not receive any grain. The pork, broilers, turkeys and layers all are raised on pasture and are given supplemental feed. The broilers and turkeys are moved every 24 hours to another section of pasture. The layers are free ranged within the paddocks that we have the cattle in. We have very heavy clay soil that at one time was a swamp (The Great Black Swamp). It has been drained off since the second half of the 19th century. What was left behind was a soil that is extremely high in naturally occurring minerals. Through proper utilization of grass farming we capitalize on the available nutrients for grazing animals, which in return makes the final product more nutrient dense. It has been said that food grown on heavy clay soil is some of the best tas…
Canal Junction Natural Meats & Farmstead Cheese lists grass-fed on their public-facing materials. These are the producer’s own claims; we do not independently audit them.