We are a small family farm in Missouri located just ten minutes north of Cape Girardeau and about two hours south of St. Louis.  Our desire is to produce the healthiest, most nutritious food that we can so you can feel good about eating it and feeding it to your family.

The animals are given the best locally grown foods available, allowed unlimited amounts of natural sunshine, fresh air and exercise, never fed routine antibiotics, hormones, or unnatural growth stimulants.  Using sustainable agricultural techniques, we provide them an environment where they can thrive.  In return, the animals provide a safe, healthy, nutritious meat for our families to eat.

We are not interested in mass marketing our products.  We would rather develop a relationship with our customers.  They feel confident knowing where their food is coming from, how it was raised, what it was fed and how it was processed.  This has brought us a high level of customer loyalty. 

Customers are welcome to visit the farm often and see how the animals are growing, help collect eggs or watch on a chicken processing day.  This kind of hands-on environment allows the customer to feel like this is their farm too.  That is the way it should be. 

Come on out and experience the difference!

 

Family Friendly Farm, where the animals have...

No antibiotics, our animals are healthy.
No hormones, we allow them to mature and gain weight naturally.
No dangerous growth stimulants, (like arsenic) are ever given to our animals!
No crowded conditions, each has ample room to run either inside or out at will.
No debeaking, tail clipping or other unethical industry standard practices,
our animals are never so stressed so they don't lash out at one another.

Instead, we provide...

Fresh air, where they can breathe ammonia-free.
Built-in exercise program, we always place the food away from their sleeping area.
Locally raised grains, custom ground for us to ensure the contents are antibiotic free and miscellaneous meat product free.
Moved regularly to fresh grass, to ensure the the grass is actively growing for maximum vitamin intake.
Love, as you can see by the quality of care and concern for the well being of the animals.

 

You can see photos and read more information about each enterprise by clicking on the links below.  When you are ready, please check out the Events page for a listing of the tour dates.  We would love to show you around.

 

Welcome to Family Friendly Farm

Family Friendly Farm, 834 State Highway V, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 (573)335-1622

a grass focused, family

oriented farm for nutrient

dense meat, milk and eggs

ATTENTION ST. LOUIS!

We are aware of both Greenwood and Pilgrim Farms ceasing their milk operations. We do have extra milk at this time. A few things are different and I want you to be aware of them. The first is that we use glass jars and we expect the jars to be returned clean and dry. There is a $2.00 charge for the jar but after that you exchange it for one with milk. The second difference is we are not a government inspected dairy. We have always felt that customer-inspection is a much higher standard and think you will be impressed with the cleanliness of our system.

If you are still interested than we are glad to do what we can to provide you with milk. We are in the process of working out what we can do to get milk to the St. Louis area. We are trying to think of all the possibilities.  One is milk runs. A milk run is where 4-8 families take turns driving down to get milk for the group. This is very successful for quite a few groups now. I am putting together a list of names for milk runs. If interested, please email where you live (North, West, South, Central or IL) and how much milk you would use on a weekly or biweekly basis.

We are also looking at what we would need to do to organize a Saturday delivery. How much that would add to the cost? How often would we need to deliver?  Where would we deliver it to? Who would drive it? If interested, please indicate how much more you would be willing to pay per gallon to have the convenience of not driving here, what delivery locations you can suggest and how much milk you are using on a weekly or biweekly basis.

Obviously, we were not expecting this so we don't have a fancy plan ready. Please be patient. I will be sending out more information shortly of what we can do. 

In the meantime, I encourage you to:

1) let us know the details of the above ideas in    an email to  info@familyfriendlyfarm.com
2) sign up for our newsletter
http://familyfriendlyfarm.com/Newsletter.html
3) like us on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/familyfriendlyfarm 

These will be the avenues we use to let people know what is possible.

I will get back with you real soon about our ideas and please feel free to send us yours. Thank you for your interest.

Your future famers, 
Matt and Rachel Fasnacht

ATTENTION ST. LOUIS!


We are aware of both a few farms ceasing their milk operations. We do have extra milk at this time. A few things are different and I want you to be aware of them. The first is that we are grassfed. We do not feed any grain in the parlor. This reduces the amount of milk per cow but increases the nutrition in the milk. See this link for more details. Secondly, we use half gallon glass jars and we expect the jars to be returned clean and dry. There is a $2.00 charge for the jar the first time but after that you exchange it for one with milk. Milk is $5.00 per jar and can be expected to last two to three weeks from milking. The third difference is we are not a government inspected dairy. We have always felt that customer-inspection is a much higher standard and think you will be impressed with the cleanliness of our system.


If you are still interested than we are glad to do what we can to provide you with milk. We have a “milk run” in that comes down weekly. Each person/family must take a turn driving and picking up milk for the whole group. The pick up/drop off spot is in Webster Groves. If interested, please email where you live (North, West, South, Central or IL) and how much milk you would use on a weekly or biweekly basis. Then I can forward the organizers contact information.


We are also looking into biweekly Saturday deliveries after the first of the year. Please let us know if this is the best option for you. Look for more information in our NEWSLETTER on January 10th!


In the meantime, I encourage you to:


  1. 1) let us know the details of the above ideas in an email to  info@familyfriendlyfarm.com

  2. 2) sign up for our newsletter
    http://familyfriendlyfarm.com/Newsletter.html

  3. 3) like us on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/familyfriendlyfarm


These will be the avenues we use to let people know what is possible.


I will get back with you real soon about our ideas and please feel free to send us yours. Thank you for your interest.


Your future famers,

Matt and Rachel Fasnacht