About Us
We might not have it all figured out,
but we've made enough mistakes to get close.
Howdy,
We are the Metcalfe Family. Texas through and through we are lifelong residents of the lonestar state. Our homesteading journey has taken us through a ton of lessons with some coming hard earned through blood, sweat, and tears. Our homesteading path was birthed out of our search for quality, nutritious, grass based foods.
20 years ago Courtney walked out of the doctors office with five different prescription medications that she would have to take daily for the rest of her life. In that moment she decided that there must be another way. We both have college degrees in agriculture and had what we thought was an understanding of how healthy food was produced. How wrong we were!
We started learning about healing through food and what real health looked and felt like. Our family grew and our two daughters were born in 2007 and 2009. In 2013 we bought a 7 acre property and like we do with so many other things, we jumped in head first. Just like so many others our gateway livestock was the laying chickens that made the way for everything else we started to add.
By the time we decided to sell the homestead (So many reasons, but we will blame Hurricane Harvey) we had dairy cows, small breed beef cattle, pigs, ducks, meat chickens, and upwards of eighty laying hens. We were extremely productive on such small acreage and were rotationally grazing with our focus on sustainability and regenerative agriculture.
We had a large customer base that we supplied with pasture based whole chickens and pasture based eggs. We even supplied a small restaurant in town with fresh eggs.
When we moved into town we started to build up our 1/2 acre property, but remained committed to the principles we learned and now have a well versed understanding of agriculture from the industrial model promoted by university, to the small farmstead and now as a backyard homestead. Personal health and environmental heath are not in competition with each other. When we take care of the soil and animals they take care of us.
With over a decade of building up infrastructure designed to promote soil healing in combination of utilizing animals to do most of the heavy lifting, we love and are committed to teaching and sharing with others all we have learned so that you don’t have to make the same mistakes we did.
