Here is a little piece of Heart's Pasture passed on from us to you. If you've found us, welcome. You most likely have a small amount of land and are looking to tend to the soil of your heart. Perhaps you work hard and are resilient, have big dreams, and support the local food movement. It could be that you have similar beliefs in animal welfare and personal philosophies to us. Maybe you, too, pasture your animals, source high quality feed, are soy and corn free, and rely on herbs as nature's source of "magic" medicine. And . . . just maybe, you base your principals on how food can nourish the body and the soul. Food that, if given the opportunity, can be medicine in it's own right. If that doesn't make you scratch your head, thank you so much for your visit. We hope you stay awhile and peruse what makes us, having a ceaseless devotion toward nutrition, unlike any other.

- with love from the farm

Built from the Ground up

Heart's Pasture is a small woodland family farm in northern Michigan. A father, mother, and two daughters tend to a variety of heritage livestock and specialty produce, while offering on-farm classes. With a firm vision rooted in biodynamic and beyond organic practices, it serves as a model for what every family is capable of manifesting: health and homesteading independence. 
Be bold. Be brave. Read on. 

Find Inspiration

Every powerful intention starts with a thought. In terms of health and homesteading independence, all it takes is a seed. The garden of your heart can be grown anywhere. Start with a pack of seed, a flock of chickens, or a herd of goats and find that you have limitless power beyond the comfort of the easy life. 

The seed

Grow your heart's garden in a pot, a flower box, a raised bed, or in the good ol' earth.

The Stem

Tend to your heart's garden. It wants to grow as long as you care for it and give it love and attention.

The flower

Harvest the fruit of your heart's garden. Food that you have grown is abundantly more flavorful and nutritious.

Heart's Pasture

Rooted in the same principals? Helping homesteads and small family farms, we offer specialty services to manifest health and homesteading independence in your life. 

Heart's Pasture Principals

Practice

Heart's Pasture is rooted in biodynamic and energetic practices. We do not support or use chemical fertilizers, industrial biproducts, pesticides, fungicides, GMO seed, or soy. That means that we do things that would be considered different or "backward" according to today's standards, although, with all of the ironies, that usually means that we do them how they were meant to be done.

Patience

Often time, working with plants and animals gives a newfound respect toward the food that we eat. There are a lot of parts included in growing food and caring for animals, and they all involve patience. Although we would like to click a button and be gratified, it is important to realize that all good things take time.

Presence

There is nothings more rewarding than seeing that 12 pound pumpkin grown from one little seed. That bouquet of flowers that were tended until bloom. The birth of a newborn kid. Being in the moment is important, especially when it involves working with life. When a doe walks up to you and seeks love and pets, it's important to realize that other things can wait.

Support our Farm

Livestock
Nigerian Dwarf Goats
Our Nigerian Dwarf goat herd is nature raised. They provide us with the creamiest, most nutritious raw milk, browse our mixed woods forest, and supply us with the perfect mulch for our fruits and vegetables. Each year we sell registered doelings and bucklings and pet wethers. Goats are the perfect gateway into homesteading.
American Guinea Hogs
We have a registered herd of American Guinea hogs. They supply the most flavorful pork, work our woodland forest, and provide some of the highest quality manure. Registered piglets, along with feeders, are available each year. 
Blanc de Hotot Rabbits
Beginning in the summer of 2025 we will have a colony of registered Blanc de Hotot rabbits. We will be able to offer for sale registered and feeder stock to other homesteads. 

Classes
Sourdough Bread Baking
Beginning in the summer of 2025 we will be offering classes using our outdoor masonry bread oven. We guide each class through the process of making sourdough bread, pizza, granola, and more! Each participant gains the knowledge and skills necessary to bake at home.

Nourishment
Potatoes
A true specialty! We grow over 30 unique varieties of potatoes which include fingerling, baby, medium, and bakers. They have a wide range of colors and shapes --and history!
Raw Milk
Our small, yet mighty herd of Nigerian dwarf goats provide a minimum of 6 months of raw, creamy milk for a handful of families each year. 

Specialty
Homestead Consulting
This specialty service includes consulting and on or off farm teaching of various aspects of farm life so that other homesteads can reach their full potential.

"Data often encapsulates and hypnotizes the speed at which the new world runs, foiling the nutritional content out of life. The limitless potential of health and power is still available through food.”