We at Cunningham Farms believe that we can be no healthier than the plant or animals we eat (or the plants our animals eat). So on our farm we follow a template that God has set forth in nature.
Our commitment to you is:
​No antibiotics
​No vaccines
No chemical wormers (or other)
​No genetically modified organism (GMO) feed or seeds
No herbicides
​No pesticides
No chemical fertilizers 

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Salad Bar Beef





Herbivores in nature exhibit three characteristics:

Mobbing for predator protection, movement daily onto fresh forage and away from yesterday’s droppings, and a diet consisting of forage only – no dead animals, no chicken manure, no grain, and no fermented forage. Our goal is to approximate this template as closely as possible. Our cows eat forage only, a new pasture paddock roughly every day, and stay herded tightly with portable electric fencing. This natural model heals the land, thickens the forage, reduces weeds, stimulates earthworms, reduces pathogens, and increases nutritional qualities in the meat

 

 


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Chicken
Pastured Broilers




We use 10 ft. X 12 ft. X 2 ft. high floorless, portable field shelters housing about 75 birds each to grow these 8-week meat birds. Moved daily to a fresh pasture paddock, these birds receive fresh air, exercise, sunshine, and all the genetically modified organism-free (GMO-Free) grain they want. Integrating the cows to mow ahead of the shelters shortens the grass and encourages ingestion of tender, fresh sprouts. We want every animal to eat as much salad (green material) as its full genetic potential will allow.



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Eggmobile


An eggmobile follows the cows on their rotation. The eggmobile is a portable henhouse and the laying hens free range out from it, eating bugs and scratching through cattle droppings to sanitize the pastures just like birds in nature that always follow herbivores as biological cleansers. The eggmobile is moved every day. The chickens are fed a supplement of non-GMO feed.
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Joshua Cunningham  Teresa Cunningham

Savannah Cunningham
Joseph Cunningham
Emily Cunningham

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I started raising cattle in 2004, and in 2005 Teresa and I got married.
In 2006 my daughter was born.
From the moment Savannah was born my wife and I started on a journey in regards to our food (where it comes from, how it’s grown, what’s in it, etc.).

Back when Savannah was little a report came out about how the hormones used to increase milk production in store bought milk messed with young girls hormones causing them to start lactating! (Red flag) This then led us to GMO's and Antibiotics.

Over the next 7 years we grew all our own meats and in 2013 decided to start selling to whomever also wanted healthy food. That year I came home from a 10 year job in the factory to be a full time farmer and never looked back.




I must give credit where credit is due. The production model we are trying to follow was popularized by a Virginian named Joel Salatin .

You can check out more of what he does at ...... http://www.polyfacefarms.com/





















Pastured Hogs

At 8 weeks old we wean our piglets and train them to electric fence.
​They then spend the rest of their live rotating through pasture, silvo pastures, and woods. Using our feeder as a timer we will move to a new paddock whenever they run out of feed. If our paddocks turn to weeds we give them less (NON-GMO) feed if they start returning to forest we give them more. We also use them in our compost and garden turning jobs in which the pigs are again able to express their pigness in rooting