Farm Opportunities About Member Info Pickup Locations Products Contact Sign In Create Account Sign In or Create Account About Us Welcome to Full Circle Farm, a family operated farm since 2002! Specializing in nutrient dense foods for pets and livestock. Our Family Our family consists of Dennis the farmer, Alicia the wife and helper to the farmer our children: Lily, Caroline, Stella, Daniel, Mathias, Tessa and LuAnna. Dennis was raised Amish-Mennonite in PA and comes from a long line of dairy farmers. Our Philosophy We believe that the way to true health for your pets and/or livestock is through the food they consume on a daily basis. Since the bodies of mammals make 300 million new cells every 60 seconds, it makes sense that they need to eat well to support the growth of healthy cells. The stomach lining is remade every 6 to 8 days; skin every 30 days; the liver every 6 to 8 weeks; and bones in about one year IF you give your animal friends what it takes to do so. The only way to have nutrient dense foods is to grow it in mineral rich soils. Here, we grow grass in our re-mineralized/balanced soil. This is what our Devon and Jersey cows eat every day, along with a mineral mix, unrefined natural sea salt and kelp that they have access to at all times. And this is where our milk and beef comes from, that we offer as pet food. We believe it is the most nutrient dense and the best value in Florida because of the care we take in building up our soil and the free choice minerals our cows have access to at all times. Not only are our cows fed mineral rich grasses but we also avoid feeding grain. Cows have four stomachs that are meant to digest grasses and when they are fed grain it sets up the perfect environment to allow for e-coli in the gut. This is why we are 100% grass fed. In the winter time, when necessary, we will feed organic alfalfa pellets and some organic hay from known and trusted suppliers, but never grain. We hope to put an end to this as well as our soils become more balanced and can produce a better yield of green winter rye grasses. Cows fed grain get a condition called acidosis making their meat and milk more acid. This occurs because grain is an unnatural feed for cattle. If you would like to learn more about the detrimental effects that cottonseed meal, soy, and other conventional cattle feeds have on the health of the animal (and your pet) visit www.eatwild.com. Feeding 100% grass means we get a lot less milk per cow. Production averages 1 or 2 gallons per cow per day and rarely more. If grain is fed you can easily get 5 or 10 gallons per cow and thus the milk can be cheap. But we also believe there are dangers with possible GMO grain and chemicals like herbicide residues in the grain. A cow can only produce a certain amount of nutrients each day extracted from what she eats, and this amount of nutrients is spread across all of the gallons of milk she produces. This is why we call our milk nutrient-dense. The type of grain conventionally-raised cows are fed is also a concern. Cottonseed and soy have LOTS of problems of their own and their toxins pass through the cows into the milk. Most grain is tested for herbicide residues and they say it does not have them BUT that means they are below an acceptable level. What level is acceptable to you when feeding your furry babies (AKA pets)? ALL or any grains alter the cow's whole body, but the cottonseed and soy are VERY VERY bad in our opinion. The book called The Whole Soy Story will enlighten you on soy. Dr Weston Price spoke against cottonseed in his timeless classic Nutrition and Physical Degeneration written in 1939. After you read these books you will NOT want to feed your furry babies milk from cows eating soy or cottonseed. As of this year (2020) we have never used chemical wormers or antibiotics or added hormones or vaccines of any kind on any cow on our farm. We do not use chemical fertilizer or fly spray or herbicide or any other form of harmful chemicals whatsoever on our farm. We will/would use antibiotics on a cow or calf to save the life of the animal but very seldom need to as we focus instead on health of the animals. Keeping them healthy and preventing problems is our focus AND provides us with the nutrient dense foods we want, to feed our furry friends, it is what their bodies need. Also we do not just put out token kelp occasionally to say we feed it, we try very hard to keep it in front of the cows all the time. Eggs Our laying flock of Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks are free to roam, wherever they please, on our nutrient dense pastures. Their portable hen house (egg mobile) is moved every 2-3 days to a new area of our 200 acres. Notice the bright orange yolks on those eggs! The hens on our farm our also supplemented with a Non-GMO verified feed. Chicken All of the chicken we sell is from pastured broilers and either fed a Non- GMO verified feed or a NON-GMO verified, Soy free feed. We have partnered with Eden Farm who produces all the different cut up chicken parts that we sell as well as producing the Non-GMO, soy free feed chicken that we sell. When it is chicken that you want to feed your cat or dog, this is the best! Pork Stella is manager of our pork operation. Our pigs are forest-raised from the time we get them as piglets. Rooting and running about, they get about half of their nutrition from the vegetation of the forest. The other half comes from GMO-free feed. Try a pack of fresh sausage links to get started, your dog will be coming back for more! Visiting Us We love visitors and giving tours; e-mail us at alicia@fullcirclerealfoods.com and we will set up a time. All pets are welcome! 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