Our Farm

Our farm has been in continuous pasture for nearly 25-years. Meaning row crops have not been a part of this farm for over 2 decades.

The soils on our farm have avoided the heavy use of herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and tillage practices found in annual monocultures growing grain.

Parts of the farm have verifiably been in continuous pasture for more than 40 years.

We purchased this property because it was a perfect fit for a 100% Grass-Fed, Grass Finished Beef Farm that also raises chickens, pigs, and turkeys on pasture.

Woodside Farms - Pastured Protein is and has always been focused on the land. It’s what we think about in everything we do.

Reading bibliographies from when early settlers arrived in this area paints a much more naturally abundant picture than we see today.

Additional evidence points to a major decline in many of the wild plant and animal species that used to be abound in our area.

It is often said we have lost more than half of our topsoil in the heartland. We know our prairie soils are still losing organic matter and continuing to erode as evidenced by our muddy rivers.

We also know our forests are decreasing in health, e.g., losing the spread-out, hardwood structure they once had and being overgrown with invasive species.

This is mostly the result of overusing land for row crops, and mismanaging livestock grazing. Western Expansion itself has largely been centered around exploiting the land until “worn out,” or unusable.

We seek to reverse that trend. Our deepest desires are to not only preserve but regenerate all the most beautiful parts of our local ecologies.

Our operation is a 100% Grass-Fed, Grass-Finished Beef farm. Chicken—Meat and Eggs, Pork, and Turkey also graze on pasture or in woodlands while fed supplemental non-GMO Grain.

Parts of the farm have been in continuous pasture for over 40 years.

The last year any row crops were photographed on the property by google earth was 1998.

This means that the forages and soils on this farm have been historically devoid of the herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and tillage practices found in annual monocultures growing grain.