July 2024
Everything here is pastured. Any supplement feed is listed. Unless it says 100% grass-fed, for what percentage of feed is grass vs. grain, you’d have to ask. Only one source below put a figure on that.
Here they roughly are in order of ‘purity’ and then how local to Asheville they are. Much of this info came from here. A lot could be out of date. If you know of other places, please let me know.
• The Holmestead Farm, Leicester
chicken, duck eggs
• Mountainside Family Farms, Swannanoa
chicken (feed??), pork (feed??), 100% grass-fed beef
• Dry Ridge, Mars Hill
chicken (local feed), pork (feed?), 100%? grass-fed beef
• A Way of Life Farm, Sunshine (NE corner of Rutherford County)
Montford Farmer’s Market
pork (organic, non-soy)
• Franny’s Farm, Leicester
chicken
organic (not certified)
turkey
• Asgard Farm, Gibsonville (near Burlington)
will deliver large orders
chicken, pork, beef, lamb, turkey, eggs
organic, non-soy
• Rock House Farm, Morganton
pork, lamb
organic (non-certified? beyond?); non-soy, non-corn (some flax)
beef, Wagyu
100% grass-fed
beef, “Kobe-style”
“1/3 of daily animal intake” organic
• Bluebird Farm, Morganton
pork, beef
pasture and organic grain
[no mention on website whether or not they use soy]
• Hickory Nut Gap
chicken
GMO soy and corn (FB, 2012)
pork
GMO
beef
100% grass-fed
East Asheville Market and bulk sales twice a year
chicken & pork
fed primarily their own grain** but also some conventional soybean meal*
beef
100% grass-fed
lamb
pasture-raised but get a “little” of their homegrown corn and barley**
* “an industrial waste product (processed with hexane)” (source)
** WWC grain contains soy and is not certified organic or non-GMO. They use a little starter fertilizer because there are no good local sources of poultry manure (hundreds of tons needed). They do use at least 50 tons of their own compost.