West Wind Acres
West Wind Acres a family oriented farm, is run by Stefanie and Joshua Rockwood with the help of our son Hunter, family and friends.
We started with laying hens several years ago in an attempt to naturally lower Joshua's cholesterol. He was successful at lowering his cholesterol 100 points with small changes to his diet. This success spawned an interest in supplying truly healthy food for our friends, family, and local community. We would like our farm to be very transparent especially to customers.
Our animals are raised naturally as nature intended with no chemicals, growth hormones, or antibiotics. We rotate them through fresh pastures, and wood lots monitoring their impact on the land, and ensuring that they always have plenty of fresh food and a well balanced diet. In return our animals supply us with healthy, nutritionally dense meats, while they help us to improve the quality of our farms.
We currently have a fold of 19 Scottish Highland Cattle. Our herd of pigs includes 3 mixed heritage breed sows, 2 red wattle sows, and 14 that are being raised for pork. We also have a flock of 300 or so chickens, Black Orpington, Buff Orpington, and Black Cooper Marans. Over the last year we have added many new enterprises and we have made farming into a full time venture for us. Our fold of cattle are pastured on a 75 acre leased farm in Amsterdam,and were wintered on hay at our farm. Our pigs are pastured there as well. This year we hope to custom graze cattle for local farmers. We will graze the cattle using MIG "management intensive grazing" principles. By planning ahead and thinking through pasture moves, animals can have exceptional gains on pasture alone. Cattle finished properly on grass, can have great texture, exceptional flavor, and excellent marbling. In the past months Joshua has immersed himself in information on rotational grazing, MIG, and Holistic Management, he has read several books by Joel Salatin, Jim Gerrish, and Greg Judy. We are very excited to put this new knowledge to work. Currently we are looking for additional farms to lease in the West Charlton area, please let us know if you have any information on available properties.
We believe in preserving Heritage Breeds, most of our animals are listed on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy website, http://albc-usa.org.
At West Wind Acres animals have the right to live as they were intended to in nature. We believe in preventing disease and problems by having a diverse and balanced ecosystem. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are harmful to everyone and the environment, therefore we do not use them in our practice. Polluted soil, cancer, birth defects, and many other health issues have been associated with products like that.
We enjoy what we do and everyday we are lucky enough to see what nature has to offer us on our farm. We strive to provide our family and community with pasture raised local, nutritionally dense, tasty meats.
We started with laying hens several years ago in an attempt to naturally lower Joshua's cholesterol. He was successful at lowering his cholesterol 100 points with small changes to his diet. This success spawned an interest in supplying truly healthy food for our friends, family, and local community. We would like our farm to be very transparent especially to customers.
Our animals are raised naturally as nature intended with no chemicals, growth hormones, or antibiotics. We rotate them through fresh pastures, and wood lots monitoring their impact on the land, and ensuring that they always have plenty of fresh food and a well balanced diet. In return our animals supply us with healthy, nutritionally dense meats, while they help us to improve the quality of our farms.
We currently have a fold of 19 Scottish Highland Cattle. Our herd of pigs includes 3 mixed heritage breed sows, 2 red wattle sows, and 14 that are being raised for pork. We also have a flock of 300 or so chickens, Black Orpington, Buff Orpington, and Black Cooper Marans. Over the last year we have added many new enterprises and we have made farming into a full time venture for us. Our fold of cattle are pastured on a 75 acre leased farm in Amsterdam,and were wintered on hay at our farm. Our pigs are pastured there as well. This year we hope to custom graze cattle for local farmers. We will graze the cattle using MIG "management intensive grazing" principles. By planning ahead and thinking through pasture moves, animals can have exceptional gains on pasture alone. Cattle finished properly on grass, can have great texture, exceptional flavor, and excellent marbling. In the past months Joshua has immersed himself in information on rotational grazing, MIG, and Holistic Management, he has read several books by Joel Salatin, Jim Gerrish, and Greg Judy. We are very excited to put this new knowledge to work. Currently we are looking for additional farms to lease in the West Charlton area, please let us know if you have any information on available properties.
We believe in preserving Heritage Breeds, most of our animals are listed on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy website, http://albc-usa.org.
At West Wind Acres animals have the right to live as they were intended to in nature. We believe in preventing disease and problems by having a diverse and balanced ecosystem. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are harmful to everyone and the environment, therefore we do not use them in our practice. Polluted soil, cancer, birth defects, and many other health issues have been associated with products like that.
We enjoy what we do and everyday we are lucky enough to see what nature has to offer us on our farm. We strive to provide our family and community with pasture raised local, nutritionally dense, tasty meats.
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