March 2020
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. If you know of other places, please let me know.
• 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
• Franny’s Farm, Leicester
chicken
organic (not certified)
turkey
• Asgard Farm, Gibsonville (near Burlington)
chicken, pork, beef, lamb, turkey, eggs
organic, non-soy
• Farm to Fork, Raleigh
looks like they don’t ship
chicken, pork, eggs
not certified organic but “BEYOND organic,” non-soy
beef, lamb, goat, veal, milk, butter, cultured dairy
100% grass-fed
• Healthy Hen Farms, Oxford (near Durham)
chickens, turkeys, 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]
• Foothills Pasture Raised Meats, Black Mountain
beef and pork
pasture and grain “including” local no-spray heirloom corn and organic Pisagh Brewery spent barley
[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.