Selecting animals for the best traits, breeding, pasturing, and feeding until the mix is just right to ensure you a great local product from their family farm properties right here in SW Missouri.

Raising Food to a Higher Standard. That is the mission statement that Josiah and Shyanna from Every Living Thing Farm live by. After watching a moving food documentary several years ago, the couple began to contemplate the meat they consumed and the quality of life the animals endured.

“I have a vision of retiring from education in five more school years and being fully prepared to continue with the growing. I want to lean towards flowers. But I have to find the people that need them.”

"Every plant has a purpose." This explains his riotous garden, an ambitious amalgam of straw bale beds, leafy greens beautiful enough to display in wedding bouquets, self-seeding garlic, walking onions, and a plush carpet of native plants -- say, milkweed and tiny confederate violets, just to name a few -- too precious to remove.

Fifteen years and two kids ago, Cortney and Dewain Riddle had a problem: their newly-purchased property was so overrun with grasshoppers that their window screens were falling apart. That's where the chickens came in. …

Leslie Petri and her husband, Buddie Brooks, never considered themselves unhealthy or overweight, but when a doctor called Brooks “obese”, it was time for an overhaul.