BRINGING ORGANIC MICROGREENS &
GRASS-FED SHEEP
TO THE WEST TENNESSEE AREA
Welcome to our Farm!
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US
A FAMILY OPERATED FARM
We are a small father-son regenerative operation located in Henry County, TN. With a passion to bring real food back to our diets, we grow microgreens and raise 100% grass-fed sheep. All organic and striving to reduce all exposures to plastics, heavy metals, and toxic forever chemicals.
Dedicated to regenerating our soil, we practice sustainable management with intensive rotational grazing, increasing not only the fertility and productivity of our soil, but also providing complete nutrition and a happy, healthy, and quality life for our sheep.
We raise organic grass-fed hair sheep for breeding stock as well as lamb meat. We provide homesteads, farmers, and breeders with quality sheep to stock their farms for whatever their purposes may be.
Our sheep are raised 100% on pasture without pesticides and herbicides. We aim to raise our sheep as organically as we possibly can, no routine use of antibiotics (dewormers only used when absolutely necessary). No grain, no vaccines.
Fresh, organic, natural
WHAT ARE MICROGREENS?
Some of the most important vitamins, minerals and antioxidants found in microgreens include lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin, beta-carotene and sulforaphane. These nutrients equip your body and immune system to fight diseases, cancers, and diabetes. Microgreens contain lots of polyphenols—a plant-based antioxidant—can improve cognitive function and even prevent or delay Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, according to Cleveland Clinic.
Microgreens are great and easy way to enhance your nutrition and elevate your culinary game. As a garnish, topping on your pizza, blended into a smoothie, or as a salad all on its own, you will quickly discover its versatility, tasty flavor profile, and elegance.
You can learn more about the benefits here, 6 Health Benefits of Microgreens.
Our Sheep
ST. CROIX & KATAHDIN
We selected the St. Croix hair sheep breed for their proven parasite resistance, heat tolerance, good mothering instincts, and ability to thrive on forage. Their natural flocking instincts compliment our rotational grazing system, making for easy and stress-free moves to new paddocks that only take a whistle.
Our flock is currently half purebred St. Croix and the other half is St. Croix & Katahdin cross, the latter came from Greg Judy’s 2023 breed stock. These flocks are tracked with color-coded ear tags. We strive to provide you with high-quailty sheep for meat and breed stock or for whatever purpose you desire. We want to add to your farm a high-quality animal.
No Vaccinations & Minimal Antibiotics
High disease and parasite load in livestock are a consequence of over-grazing, exposure to bare dirt, camping (bedding in the same spot longer than one night), and exposure to feces and urine for an extended period of time (i.e. a pen). With intensive rotational grazing and proper resting times, our disease and parasite load is as low as possible.
So, as a result of our management practices and compliments to the resiliency of the breed, our sheep are not administered vaccines and are rarely given any antibiotics, if ever. No crutches. We select for the sheep that have adapted and are thriving in our environment, climate, forages, and are not succumbing to the diseases and parasites in our area. The underperforming sheep are culled as necessary to improve our average sheep’s performance in the next generation.
Always Fresh
SHOP ORGANIC MICROGREENS
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Crunchy Mix
$6.00 — available on subscription -
Sunflower
$6.00 — available on subscription -
Pea
$6.00 — available on subscription -
Broccoli
$6.00 — available on subscription
Our Methods
100% ORGANIC GRASS-FED SHEEP
Intensive rotational grazing is by-far the most superior form of management for quality of life, animal health and performance, pasture health and performance, nutrition, human consumption, eliminating need for grain (which is produced unsustainably), and finish with a quality, tasty product. Sheep should always graze fresh forage daily to prevent diseases and parasites—never eating it to the ground. As a result, we provide our sheep fresh paddocks daily with fresh well water and Sea-90 salt, ensuring a healthy flock with little-to-no dewormers.
Our sheep are rotated (moved to the next paddock) once every day. Both sheep and guardian dogs are broke to hot electric wire and we use step-in posts with two strands of polybraid wire on geared reels to set up our temporary paddocks for our daily moves.
No living organism can function without carbon or energy. With proper management, intensive rotational grazing captures and harnesses these much more effectively, maximizing the amount of energy the soil captures and the animals capture. Due to the high stocking rate, a greater percentage of forage is trampled, putting more carbon into the soil. Energy from the action of grazing (taking a bite off of a plant), kinetic energy from walking, and the symbiotic energy (magnetic energy field around a mob of animals) are all captured by the soil, exciting soil life and increasing fertility.
We plan to go into more detail about these topics with articles in the future, so stay tuned! In the meantime, check out our article to learn more about intensive rotational grazing: Intensive Rotational Grazing 101 – What is It?
100% ORGANIC MICROGREENS
Growing and consuming food the way it was intended, fresh and organic, is what we strive to provide for our family—and every family should have that option.
That is why we grow microgreens and why we grow them the way we do. Our microgreens are grown from premium organic, non-GMO seeds. Minimizing plastics, we use stainless steel growing trays. We use drinking-water safe garden hoses to eliminate a source of cancer-causing BPAs, phthalates, and lead. For packaging, we have chosen BPA-free, biodegradable plant-based clamshells—a more health- and environment-conscious choice while maintaining freshness.
We are actively working and researching to develop the end-product to be as free from all toxic chemicals and metals as possible. As we are able, we will continue to replace with higher quality tools, materials, and packaging to achieve this.
Our bodies need real food to operate at its greatest capacity. Due to the nature of processed foods, parasites are able to digest it faster than our bodies—leaving us with little to utilize and allowing parasites to thrive. Many major health issues are the result of malnourishment and parasites. This is why it is crucial to kick refined and processed foods and choose real, whole foods.
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Our Products
WHAT WE OFFER
Lambs
All lambs are born in late April through May and are broke to hot wire. As of 7/23/24, we have very few rams available from both breeds—so reach out soon! We will potentially have additional lambs later this year due to mismanagement from previous flock owners, so be on the lookout for potential lambs available for order before spring!
We will send an email update when a percentage of expected ram lambs for 2025 becomes available for reservation.
$300 per lamb
Mature Rams
We have two mature registered purebred (St. Croix) rams for sale. Contact us for more information at office@twelvestones.farm
$400 per ram
Posted for sale on 08/03/24 8:30 PM
Microgreens
We currently offer our microgreens at $6.00 per clamshell. For our Paris, TN customers, our pick-up date is every Thursday. Order online, call, email, or reach out to us on our socials to place your order.
- Broccoli – 2.1oz (60g)
- Pea shoots – 3.5oz (100g)
- Sunflower – 3.5oz (100g)
- Crunchy mix (pea, sunflower, and red radish) – 2.6oz (75g)
- Variety pack that consists of one order of each above – 11.7oz (335g).
Organic Grass-Fed Lamb
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Get in touch
SHEEP & MICROGREENS
PHONE
+1 (731) 514-6631
LOCATION
Henry County, Tennessee
office@twelvestones.farm
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