When you choose to eat meat, eggs, and dairy products from animals raised on pasture, you are improving the welfare of the animals, helping to put an end to environmental degradation, helping small-scale ranchers and farmers make a living from the land, helping to sustain rural communities, and giving your family the healthiest possible food.
Our farm is one of the largest pasture-based farrow to finish farms in the state of Virginia.
Pasture-raised pork is significantly tastier than conventionally-raised pork! It tastes richer, with the flavor profile changing slightly based on the season in which the pig was slaughtered. Our customers keep coming back and ordering more for the superior flavor alone!
At J & L Green Farm, we are proud that our cattle are grass-finished and raised entirely on pasture. We purchase cattle so although we cannot control what they eat prior to coming to our farm, we do graze all cattle for a year at minimum before harvesting. This means that we never feed any supplemental grain to our cattle; they are only fed grass and hay from the moment we receive them on our farm to the day their meat is harvested. We also pasture-raise our cattle using a rotational grazing technique, which means that the cows are moved to graze on patches of fresh, pesticide-free grass every few days. This ensures that the cows are eating a nutrient-dense diet of seasonal forage and grasses, while naturally fertilizing the soil on our farm.
