Animal Husbandry

Raising your own chickens for eggs and meat, keeping a dairy goat or cow for milk, using horses or mules to plow and plant your fields—this is a rewarding way to provide to food for your table. Learn the benefits of keeping livestock on the homestead or small farm, along with how to care for them.

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Tara Martinez

Grady Phelan

Grady is the farm manager at Homestead Heritage. After growing up on a holistically-minded cattle and sheep ranch in southwest Oklahoma, Grady apprenticed at Polyface Farm to learn directly from Joel Salatin. Two years later, he and his new family managed a Polyface rental farm in Middlebrook, Virginia where they cared for cattle, pigs, laying hens, broiler chickens, and turkeys, all raised on pasture. In 2014, Grady and his family moved to Texas to help start a large-scale pastured poultry enterprise on an existing ranch. They are now full-time farmers at Homestead Heritage where Grady manages day-to-day work on the farm.

Matthew Pressly

For over 25 years, Matthew has enjoyed raising poultry with his family. Over the past few years, he has begun breeding a flock of Black Australorp chickens, working to adapt them as for use on a family homestead, to produce eggs and meat and to hatch and raise offspring.

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