A couple of years ago, I was asked to speak at the Old Boulderado Hotel in Boulder, Colorado. It is a historical building that has been well kept up since its heyday in the early 1900's.
We have a lot of visitors on the farm, and we are grateful to have them. We operate this farm with complete transparency. We show them everything that we do. And we answer all questions that they ask. We even respond to questions about financial matters that most people would consider too...
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What's the difference between a pasture-raised turkey and a conventional feedlot turkey?
We provide this side-by-side comparison so that as a conscious consumer, you can make the decision which production model you choose to support.
We get a fair amount of complaints because we are often “out of stock” on items in our online store. It pisses customers off, and we hate that.
We’ve broken more than just the carbon cycle
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All land has a natural state that is the result of its evolution. This natural state is impacted by rainfall [quantity & timing], temperature [how hot or cold and for how long], elevation, mineral composition, microbial population, daylight length, seasonality, and other factors that we can’t...
A recent investigation from The Guardian and the nonprofit Food and Water Watch underscores just how centralized and consolidated our food system has become.
Over the last 75 years, we have broken our food production system in three ways.
We industrialized, centralized, and commoditized agriculture [food production].
Over the last 25 years, White Oak Pastures has transitioned from a conventional agricultural model to regenerative agriculture. Adopting new land management practices has been better for our animals and our soil, making our farm more resilient and abundant over time.
I was raised in the heart of the Bible belt, but I was not raised in the Church. On Sundays, we tended to cattle, just like we did the other six days.
I don't ever remember my father attending a Church service. My attendance was limited to the occasional Sunday mornings, when I happened to have...
