Local Meat, Sustainably Raised on The Best Farms Throughout the Rocky Mountains 

The new age of agriculture will take a more holistic approach to food production.  The focus will shift from purely economic measures of success to a focus on the health of each component of the system along the way. 

 

Healthy animals need fresh air, room to roam outdoors and opportunity to forage.  Healthy land requires animal impact and ample time to rest.  Polycultures provide soil nutrients that industrial fertilizers were previously used for.  An added benefit to a polyculture is the nutritious variety of plants available to grazing animals. 

 

Animal impact benefits the land twofold: grazing animals turn what they eat and drink into fertilizer via their urine and manure.  They trample what they don’t eat, turning it into valuable soil amendments, increasing the soil’s carbon content and increasing the soil’s ability to retain water.  

 

Animals raised under natural conditions are healthier in life and also as food.  In eating meat raised under natural conditions those eating the meat receive nutrients not found in industrial meats.  The conditions animals are raised under translate into nutritional value.  

 

The food systems that will feed us into the future will utilize what was formally viewed as waste as inputs into parallel systems.  With these improvements in mind the food system holds the greatest chance for improving the health of our soils, people and planet.