We sell farm fresh, delicious products that are free from pesticides, herbcides, antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs.
Our clean, fresh, with nothing added products include:
Broilers
Rock Cornish Game hens
Turkey
Our products may be purchased at the Helotes Farmers' market Friday afternoon, New Braunfels Farm to Market on Saturday morning, the Boerne Farmers Market Saturday afternoon, and also at the farm. We now attend the New Braunfels market every Saturday from 9:00 till 1:00, Helotes and Boerne markets on the first and third weekends of each month. Purchases at the farm are by appointment. Please go to : http://www.hillcountryfarmersmarket.org or http://www.nbfarmersmarket.com
to see the schedules, and information about the other vendors and their products.
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 as well as 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 of 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 patterns 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).
Quality- We believe our products are of the highest quality avaiable.We raise all of our animals and poultry as near the way they would live in a wild state as we possibly can, and still minimize our predator losses.
Diet: For our poultry and any animals that require a grain based diet, we purbhase high quality feeds from a mill in Millersburg, Ohio, that is completely natural, and contains no GMOs.
When we begin pork production they will be pastured, and fed grain from the same mill that supplies our poultry feed, Hiland Naturals.
Our cattle are grass fed and grass finished, and are provided natural supplements such as sea salt and Icelandic-kelp, but are not provided any grain
Our broiler production utilizes a slower growing meat bird, that we have chosen to use after extensive testing. These birds develop well, have adequate breast meat, and are much more flavorful than the commercial breeds..
Also for our Pastured Broilers and Rock Cornish Game Hens We use 8 ft. X 8 ft. X2 ft. high floorless portable pens holding about 35 birds each, to house these 5 to 10 week meat birds. Moved daily to a fresh pasture paddock, these birds receive fresh air, a fresh salad bar of grass and bugs, exercise, sunshine, and all the nongenetically modified organism (non-GMO) Amish grown 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..
