About Root Down Farm:
Our mission is to humanely raise healthy animals while working within our ecosystem to responsibly steward the land, and respect the humans that make it all happen.
Our animals rotate pastures to improve soil and animal health, while producing incredible and honest meat. All animals are fed an organic, non-GMO grain and we would never even think of giving hormones to anyone.
We raise slower growing ‘Freedom Ranger’ chickens to provide an alternative to the conventional fast growing chicken breed.
For the first 6 years, we raised super slow growing full heritage breed chickens. Although we fully believed in the natural growth of this bird, it was hard to sell them. So, we switched to raising Freedom Rangers and haven’t looked back. These chickens are active as they roam and forage in our pastures and that turns into a delicious, nutritiously full-flavored chicken.
We currently have 6 mobile range coops that measure 20 x 40 feet and are moved every other day to new pasture. We house 600-650 chickens in each one which allows 1.23-1.33 square foot per chicken. We harvest chickens just about every week of the year so we can offer fresh chicken each weekend at our farmers markets and to our retail and restaurant customers. Beyond the grass, bugs, grubs and seeds the chickens find in the pastures they are fed an organic, non-gmo grain and thats it, nothing else goes into our birds.
