Good care is the starting point.

Pasture alone does not guarantee welfare. Good husbandry requires observation, clean water, appropriate nutrition, shelter, calm handling, and treatment when an animal needs it.

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A tan cow and her young calf touching noses on natural pasture.

Our responsibility.

Animal welfare is a daily practice, not a marketing phrase.

We are responsible for the conditions our animals experience every day. That responsibility includes allowing natural behavior while also providing the nutrition, protection, and medical attention domesticated animals depend upon.

We judge our program by observable conditions: body condition, mobility, behavior, access to feed and water, comfort, cleanliness, and the way animals respond to people and handling.

Care comes before labels. If an animal needs medically appropriate treatment, we provide it.

Six conditions we work to provide.

The Daily Standard

The details change by species, season and weather. These underlying obligations do not.

  • 01 · Nutrition

    Appropriate feed & clean water

    Animals receive a species-appropriate diet, dependable access to water and ongoing body-condition observation.

  • 02 · Environment

    Pasture, shade & shelter

    Outdoor access is paired with appropriate shelter and protection from dangerous weather or ground conditions.

  • 03 · Health

    Early attention & necessary treatment

    Daily observation helps us respond early. Veterinary care is used when medically appropriate.

  • 04 · Behavior

    Room for natural movement

    Cattle graze and maintain herd relationships. Chickens forage, dust-bathe and move through outdoor areas.

  • 05 · Handling

    Calm, deliberate movement

    We work with animal behavior, avoid unnecessary pressure and design movement to reduce fear and confusion.

  • 06  · Always Observation

    Look closely & keep adjusting

    Records matter, but there is no substitute for people who know the animals and pay attention every day.
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Cattle care.

Movement follows forage, weather, and herd condition.

Fresh pasture is valuable only when animals also have water, appropriate mineral nutrition and a suitable place to rest. We observe cattle individually and as a herd, then adjust the grazing plan as conditions change.

Our cattle are raised on pasture without added hormones, antibiotics, or other chemicals. They eat grass and forage throughout their lives, never grain-finished, and remain on our farm from birth or arrival through processing.

When we do add to the herd, we purchase only from select grass-finished ranches that share our regenerative philosophy, never from feedlots or commodity auctions. Handling is planned to keep the group calm and reduce unnecessary separation or pressure.

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Poultry care.

Pasture access must be supported by complete care.

Our poultry program combines fresh ground with balanced feed, clean water, shade, weather protection, and daily attention.

Federal law prohibits hormone use in poultry. We therefore focus our claims on the distinctions customers can actually evaluate: living conditions, outdoor access, movement, care, and transparency.

We apply the same above-and-beyond standard to our chickens and turkeys. Our birds receive no added hormones, antibiotics, or other chemicals while they are on our farm. They forage on pasture and receive supplemental non-GMO feed. Beginning in spring 2027, every bird will be processed and air-chilled in our on-site facility, allowing us to oversee quality and care from pasture through processing.

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Our obligation is simple to state and demanding to practice: observe carefully, provide what each animal needs and never let a marketing claim override good care.

Yellow Springs Provisions · Real Stewardship

What our claims mean.

Plain-Language Commitments

Claim What We Mean
No Added Hormones, No Antibiotics No animal sold under our label has received antibiotics or added hormones. We prevent illness through nutrition, clean ground, and daily observation. An animal that ever needs antibiotic treatment receives it, but leaves our meat program.
Pasture-raised poultry After the brooder stage, birds live their lives outdoors, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our birds are always given balanced nutrition, water, shade, and shelter.
Low-stress handling We use calm movement, appropriate facilities, and animal-behavior principles to reduce unnecessary fear and pressure.
Born and raised on our farm Almost every animal is born on our pasture and raised by its mother in our cow-calf herd. When we add to the herd, we buy only from select grass-finished ranches that share our practices, not feedlots or commodity auctions.
Grass-finished beef After weaning, cattle remain on pasture year round for their entire lives and are always 100% grass-fed.

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