Angel Acres

Moving day for the chickens 🐓🌱 One of the rhythms of raising chickens on pasture is regularly moving their home to fresh ground, where the…

Regenerative farming is beautiful, but it is not always glamorous. Sometimes it looks like sweating in a beekeeper suit while moving electri…

Yes, we’re making an entire post about chicken poop 😂 Because when chickens are raised on pasture, manure isn’t just waste. It becomes par…

If loving raw milk is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

You’ve probably heard that humans are the only animals that drink another mammal’s milk. Our pigs would happily disagree 😂 Fresh raw cow …

Nothing says mother-daughter bonding quite like moving 1,000 chickens to fresh pasture. 🐔 From egg collecting and water lines to coops, fen…

A good life matters. These pigs rooted through pasture, lounged in the sunshine, turned soil, cycled nutrients and got plenty of scratches a…

Ever wonder why a chicken suddenly crouches down when you walk up to her? That’s called the submission squat. In a flock, hens do this whe…

My regenerative employees have a pretty great benefits package 😄 🌱 Fresh pasture every few days 🐛 Unlimited bugs 🥬 An all-you-can-eat s…

We’re here with another reminder that chickens are natural omnivores! “Vegetarian-fed” may sound nice on a carton, but chickens naturally fo…

I don’t need horror movies when I have Bianca on the farm

Love at first sight... and three months, three weeks, and three days later... 🐷💕🥹 Mama Matilda and Gimli wasted absolutely no time, and …

Turns out pigs are pretty good landscapers... as long as you don’t let them stay in one place too long 😅 By rotating them regularly, they g…

Spa day for Momma Petunia! Since pigs don’t sweat, a cool shower, shade, mud, and wallows are some of the best ways to help them beat the su…

She lays an egg, then she needs to tell the whole farm about it! This announcement is known as the “egg song”: a series of loud, repetitive …

Most people don’t realize pigs aren’t designed to live on grass alone. They’re natural omnivores that thrive on a varied diet, and getting f…

While the chickens are already halfway through their morning, the pigs are still bundled up in the world’s cutest cuddle puddle 🐷💤 Turns o…

I believe this more and more every single day. Working on my own farm, and with other small farmers in @nourishfoodclub. Farming was meant t…

No treadmill needed 🐷

Turns out one of the best things livestock can give back to the land is also one of the least glamorous 😂 Pee, poop, and saliva are full o…

I think we’ve spent a lot of time asking whether cows are good or bad for the environment when the real answer is… it depends on how they’re…

One bad run-in with ground hornets and suddenly the pig-moving uniform gets a serious upgrade 😂🐝

I think better eggs come from small regenerative farms where chickens get to be chickens.

Becoming a farmer was not part of my original plan after earning my PhD. But my curiosity about food systems, animal health, and sustainable…