Tending to the Land We Call Home
Our land is our livelihood, and we’re committed to protecting it. We design our environmental policies to ensure that our operations meet or exceed all applicable environmental requirements. We back that up by conducting extensive employee training and performing twice-yearly whole-farm environmental audits.
This level of control lets us see the big picture and make worthwhile improvements across our connected food system.
Minimizing Environmental Impact
We create wildlife habitats in our communities by planting trees and a mixture of grass and wheat around our farms. Not only does this provide accessible forage and cover for wildlife, it also helps reduce soil erosion. So we can leave our land better than we found it.
Creating Ways to Conserve
Finding a Use for Waste
Across the connected food system, we try to repurpose what would otherwise be waste from the process by coming up with creative solutions such as having our pork fat converted to clean-burning, renewable biodiesel fuel. Most of our farms utilize a treatment system that converts waste into two types of environmentally friendly, nontoxic products – liquid fertilizer and composted potting soil – so we can support local farmers and reduce waste.