Red House Ranch was founded in 2015 by Ike and Dave Mallula. Our mission is to produce wholesome, deeply nutritious, sustainable food that improves the health and well-being of people, animals, soil, and the planet—or simply, real food for better health. We produce grass-fed and finished beef, and pastured pork, chicken, and eggs. While not certified organic, we abide by organic standards. None of our livestock are fed low level routine antibiotics or hormones and their environments are designed to accommodate natural farm animal behavior and assure animal health and safety. Our beef is strictly grass fed and grass finished on perennial pastures that have not seen pesticides, herbicides, or industrial fertilizers for 40 years. Cattle are moved across our pastures using a rotational grazing method so that the soil receives the optimal amount of animal impact and the cattle have access to the best grass for short periods of time. They do not return to the same area until it has sufficiently regrown. Similar to our beef rotation, our hogs are frequently moved to fresh silvopasture (field and forest); they are not confined to areas where manure has been allowed to accumulate. In addition to what they find while rooting, they receive non-GMO feed including barley, wheat, soybeans, and a mix of vitamins and minerals for optimal health. Hogs live outdoors and use the forest shade for shelter in the summer. They are provided a physical shelter in colder weather. Our 1,500 laying hens are raised outdoors. They are continuously moved to fresh grass with plenty of space to scratch for insects and receive a certified organic feed to complete their nutritional needs. We raise meat chickens in the summer, entirely outdoors with a shelter to protect them from extreme weather and predators. They scratch for insects and are fed a non-GMO feed. All our animals have constant access to cold, clean water from the well on the property.There is no animal waste run-off because of the way the chickens, hogs, and beef cattle are moved from paddock to paddock across the pastures.
