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David and Carolyn Morris
Shady Falls Farm

The Shady Falls Farm Story:

In 1921, Christopher Columbus and Pauline Collins, with their son Walter and his wife Sallie, moved their families to this land on Shady Falls Road near Elmendorf, Texas, farming the sandy soil, raising watermelons as a cash crop along with all the other varied products produced by the family farm at that time.  The farming tradition was carried on by their daughter Louise, her husband Bernard and their two daughters.  In 1981 their daughter Carolyn (great granddaughter to Christopher and Pauline) and her husband David moved to the farm with their family.  Now Carolyn and David are both retired from their city work, and are devoting their time, with the help of their son Glenn, his wife Lea and their grandchildren, to restoring the land and raising clean, healthy beef, chicken and tukey.

Shady Falls Farm Guiding Principles:

TRANSPARENCY:  Anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime.  No trade secrets, no locked doors, every corner is camera-accessible.

GRASS-BASED:  Pastured livestock and poultry, moved frequently to new "salad-bars" offer landscape healing and nutritional superiority. 

iNDIVIDUALITY:  Plants and animals should be provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness.  Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig or the chickenness of the chicken is a foundation or societal health.

COMMUNITY:  We do not ship food.  We should all seek food closer to home, in our foodshed, our own bioregion.  This means enjoying seasonality and reacquainting ourselves with our home kitchen. 

NATURE'S TEMPLATE: Mimicking natural mpatterns on a commercial domestic scale insures moral and ethical boundaries to human cleverness.  Cows are herbivores, not omnivores: that is why we never feed them dead cows like the United States Department of Agriculture encouraged (the alleged cause of mad cows).

Beef


Herbivores in nature exhibit three characteristics:  mobbing for predator protection, movement daily onto fresh forage and away from yesterdays droppings, and a diet consisting of forage only - no dead animals, no chicken manure, no grain and no fermented forage.  Our goal is to approximate this template as closely as possible.  Our cattle eat forage only a new pasture paddock roughly every day, and stay herded tightly with portable electric fencing.  This natural model heals the land, thickens the forage,  reduces weeds, stimulates earthworms, reduces pathogens, and increases the nutritional qualities of the meat.

Pastured Broilers


We use 10 ft. X 12 ft. X8 ft. high floorless portable hoop houses, holding about 60 birds each, to grow these 10 week meat birds.  Moved daily to a fresh pasture paddock, these birds receive fresh air, exercise, sunshine, and all the genetically modified organism (non-GMO) free Amish grain they want.  At Shady Falls Farm, we want every animal to eat as much salad (green material) as its full genetic potential will allow.