Miele Farms

Miele Farms is a pasture based, sustainably managed farm; focused on raising healthy food in an environmentally beneficial manner.

Our production model is based on grass and raising happy healthy animals, because healthy happy animals produce delicious and healthy meat.  We have found that healthy, happy animals are a direct result of a production model in which the animals get to be themselves and are raised in as natural environment as possible.  A direct result of raising animals in the most natural environment possible is sustainability.  To us sustainability, does not just mean that something can continue as is forever. Sustainable agriculture should mirror nature, in that the environment benefits from having animals on it.

The foundation of our production model is grass.  All of our animals are raised on pasture their entire life and we utilized Management Intensive Grazing (MIG) to insure we maintain healthy topsoil and pasture.  MIG is a rotational grazing system that requires pigs, cattle and poultry to continual move on to fresh pasture; which is small enough to ensure that the animals graze the entire pasture, but large enough to ensure the animals do not over graze it.   MIG insures that our pigs, cattle and poultry are always on the most nutritious and palatable pastures possible and allows the grass to have 27 to 40 days of rest.  One of the biggest pathogen issues faced by ranchers and farmers is intestinal worms.  Intestinal worms have a 21 day life cycle, thus by allowing pastures to rest for a minimum of 27 days insures that the animals stay worm free.  MIG also has the added benefit of increasing topsoil by at least an inch a year, improving grass species diversity, and has proven to reduce topsoil erosion by 93%. Multiple studies state that one acre of MIG pasture stores more Carbon Dioxide than one acre of tropical rain forest.

Healthy, happy animals require that we only feed animals what they are designed to eat.  Thus our cows which our herbivores only eat grasses and legumes.  Pigs and poultry are both omnivores and although they are designed to eat almost anything, in our system they only eat what is available on pasture or GMO free grain and hay supplemental rations.

We deliver multiple times per month to our Colorado Springs, Parker, and Monument meeting locations.