Heritage Farms

Heritage Farms is located in the beautiful Cocolalla Valley in the Idaho Panhandle. Our animals have a symbiotic relationship with the pastures on which they graze, each feeding the other without chemical inputs to either.

While most chickens are raised in 100% confinement, we've found that pasturing our birds adds quality while making farming more environmentally friendly. On our pastures, there's an entire ecosystem geared towards absorbing manure and eliminating pollution. The addition of fresh green plants to the chickens' diet adds quite a bit of flavor to the eggs, while the lack of crowding makes health problems uncommon. Free range eggs not only taste better and have darker yolks, but they are certainly higher in nutrients and have a superior Omega 3/Omega 6 balance to ordinary eggs.

Our Grazing Program ensures that our cattle are always grazing on lush green fresh grass, while at the same time replacing the broad spectrum nutrients they are removing. Every few days the cattle are moved to fresh pasture, and replaced by chickens, which then scatter the beef fertilizer while adding their own variety and controlling fly and bug populations. The chickens also convert the grass to luscious natural meat and eggs for your dining pleasure.

Through our Herd Share program you can receive milk from your own Dairy Cow, lovingly cared for and milked for you twice daily.

We offer Free Range Eggs and Dairy Cow Boarding year around as well as high quality Grass Finished Beef and Broiler/Fryer Chickens in season. Beef is sold by the whole, half, or quarter, or frozen by the package. Call for availability.

Visitors are always welcome at Heritage Farms; we love to give you and your family a “Farm Experience” tailored to your tastes. Children love to gather eggs, go for a hay ride and pet the milk cows. Sometimes there is a calf that they can bottle feed. Call 208-683-4410 to make arrangements.

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Practices (our standards for raising or making our products)
All-natural, no hormones, antibiotics or chemicals used in production. Organic principles applied, but not certified organic. Beef is never fed any grain, only grass-fed and grass-finished. Our beef has never been given any hormones, antibiotics or other chemical, nor have they ever been fed any grain, which could cause them to have health problems. Research shows that Grass-Finished Beef is as low fat as a skinless chicken breast, low cholesterol, and high in Omega-3 Fatty Acids. And the flavor is absolutely unbeatable!

Poultry are out on pasture when weather is appropriate, cage free at all times in large ventilated barn with fresh shredded hay for feed, excercise, and have fresh hay to eat and to use for bedding daily. The eggs they lay have dark yellow yolks which are perky in the pan, and do not spread out. Plus the flavor is absolutely WONDERFUL!

Additional Information
We practice ecology-based farming which mimics nature to create an agro-ecology where water is conserved and not polluted, and plant nutrients are recycled to produce the healthiest possible plants, animals and human consumers. Animal byproducts (manure and litter) are composted and spread on the hay fields to recycle the nutrients. No chemical fertilizers are ever used. Our goal is to build soil health and plant diversity by supplying natural means. Healthy soil produces healthy plants and healthy plants produce healthy animals which, in turn, help to produce health in our customers. Further information may be had at our web-site: www.naturalheritagefarms.com.

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As a family, we started raising our own butcher animals because we wanted healthier, better-tasting and local meats. From a family passion to live and eat better our farm continues to evolve every day. Our pastures are registered Organic (in 2009) and all our animals live in large rotating paddocks, thriving on fresh air and wide open spaces. We custom grind our hog ration here on the farm. This hog ration is made up of LOCAL grains - primarily no-spray wheat grown locally for us here in the Kootenai Valley. We raise a variety of breeds, including some heritage breeds. We sell pork and beef by the cut, or by the mixed quarter, half or whole. We offer a variety of sausages with Organic seasonings, completely free of nitrites/nitrates/MSG, along with no wheat or fillers. We also offer cured meats (with custom hog orders) with a cure made of Organic spices and NO nitrites/nitrates/MSG.

All our beef is butchered and processed when the grass is green and growing. This is important with Grass-Fed/Grass-Finished Beef because it keeps the meat at it's tenderest and most flavorful. To ensure the best possible beef, we butcher beef June through October, when our registered Organic pastures are lush and vibrant.

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Ingredients
All our Sausage and Cure Seasonings are made with Organic spices and are nitrite/nitrate/MSG Free. Sausages contain NO wheat or fillers. All our custom hogs include the Organic sausage and cure seasonings. Currently ordering a custom hog is the only way you can get some of our delicious Bacon and Hams! Please contact us directly to find out more about ordering a custom hog, beef, pastured poultry or heritage turkeys.

Practices (our standards for raising or making our products)
All our animals live on Idaho Registered Organic Pasture (certification is complete in 2009). They are rotationally grazed in spacious paddocks. Our goal is to create living conditions as close as possible to the animal's natural settings. Our whole family is involved in the farm, all our animals are family friendly and love a good scratch! We are supporting LOCAL Organic and Sustainable production of grains in the Kootenai Valley by teaming up with a LOCAL farmer to grow grain for us with no chemical inputs. We grind this grain here on the farm to supplement the diet of the chickens and hogs. Our goal is to convert more and more land to sustainable agriculture.

Again, all our beef is butchered and processed when the grass is green and growing. This is important with Grass-Fed/Grass-Finished Beef because it keeps the meat at it's tenderest and most flavorful. To ensure the best possible beef, we butcher beef June through October, when our registered Organic pastures are lush and vibrant.

Additional Information
We are a Family Farm. We would not be able to practice our passion without the help of our children, Emily (12) and Devin (9). We love what we do and we have lots of fun doing it. It is incredibly rewarding to live the life we live. We started doing this over six years ago to have tasty, healthy meat in the freezer and we are happy to offer the same meats we eat at our table to other like-minded people. We welcome and encourage visits to our farm - Emily & Devin are great tour leaders. Buy Fresh - Buy Local!