OUR ANIMALS

Our 44-acre Sharon, MA farm produces all the Crescent Ridge Pasture Raised labeled beef and pork available for home delivery or in the dairy bar. We practice pasture based rotational grazing with a focus on healthy grasses, forages, and microbes. The grazing animals, through proper management help us sequester carbon into the soil, build strong mycelial networks, and populate bacteria vital for healthy regenerative pasture and grassland. In addition to our cattle and pigs for beef and pork, we also have a few goats and donkeys, each with their own role on the farm, and a variety of wildlife calling our farm their homeOur regenerative methods allow us to grow a small part of New England’s agricultural lands in a way that lets the community interact and connect with where their food comes from.



Our Pasture Raised Beef

Our cattle are all grass fed and rotationally grazed, moving progressively between pasture paddocks as a part of our intensive grazing plan. Moving through the number of paddocks allows the animals to eat the healthiest and most nutritious grasses and forage as they enter a paddock, and then move into a new paddock before they negatively impact a paddock’s ability to rest and recover. The rest allows the roots to regrow after some slight dieback (which releases short chain carbons) from the grazing, which feeds microbial life in the soil, and also allows for the fresh manure laid down by the cattle to be broken down by the dung beetles, earthworms, and bacteria found in healthy pastures. Through the process of roots growing and the manure breaking down, carbon is sequestered into the ground.

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Pasture Raised POrk

New to us in 2024, our pork will be forest raised to utilize their services in land reclamation. Due to pigs natural desire to disturb the ground and eat any snacks they find, raising them in forests allow us to create more pasture land amongst the edges of the white pines that have monopolized the canopy in our forested land. Pigs when allowed to be pigs search around the top levels of soil for roots, grubs, and nuts such as acorns, helping to intentionally disrupt the area and trigger the next generation of grasses, shrubs, and saplings to be able to get a start growing with less competition for sunlight and nutrients. Our pigs rooting also helps break down leaf litter, reducing fungal activity which is what helps forests thrives, and allows for bacteria to start dominating which are prevalent in healthy grasslands.

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