BRINGING ORGANIC
GRASS-FED SHEEP
TO THE WEST TENNESSEE AREA
Welcome to
TWELVE STONES FARM
A FAMILY OWNED FARM
Hi, I am Ryan. Welcome to our organic regenerative farm! We’re a small grass-fed sheep operation located in Henry County, TN near Paris, TN.
We are passionate about bringing you affordable, quality meat and breed stock while crafting our management practices to heal the soil from the devastating effects of poor grazing management, row cropping, and the widespread applications of toxic chemicals and fertilizers.
Our sheep are rotationally grazed on pasture without pesticides and herbicides. We are continually refining our management to raise our flock that accomplishes our holistic goals. And over time, we hope to eliminate all exposures of toxic chemicals and heavy metals, as well as the need for all dewormers and protein supplementation during winter. Through our management, we strive to maintain green grass that our flock can graze on all year round.
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Why Choose Us?
Soil Food Web Graduate
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MEET THE FARMERS
As a father-son regenerative farm that is dedicated to restoring land fertility and productivity, we are also focused on healthy living and holistic healing.
Troy, the father of nine kids (five biological and four adopted), grew up working for his dad’s lawn and landscaping business that has been in operation since 1981, as well as their plant nursery business that sold homeopathic remedies and supplements. So he’s been on the holistic health and regenerative agriculture journey for decades now, applying what he’s learned to his homestead of gardens, chickens, and dairy goats. Today, he’s working to earn a PhD in natural medicine from Rockwell School of Holistic Medicine and start his own practice to bring true healing and not just masking symptoms.
Ryan, the son, picked up his passion for farming from his experience growing up on a homestead. However, that passion didn’t really spark until he learned about intensive rotational grazing from Greg Judy’s YouTube channel in late 2022. Since then, he’s been learning all about regenerative agriculture having graduated from the Soil Food Web School by Dr. Elaine Ingham, a brilliant soil microbiologist, in July 2024 and attended Greg Judy’s beginner and advanced grazing schools in 2023 and 2024. Today, he’s working to pass down a fulfilling lifestyle and generational wealth to his future children, and is also obtaining a PhD in nutritional medicine to partner with his father in their holistic wellness practice.
Together, they are striving to produce high quality grass-fed lamb and breeding stock all while improving the health and quality of the land, environment, and ecosystem.
- SUSTAINABLE
- REGENERATIVE
- HOLISTICALLY DRIVEN
Our Methods
INTENSIVE ROTATIONAL GRAZING
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. For that reason, we provide our sheep fresh paddocks, well water and minerals, ensuring a healthy flock with little-to-no dewormers.
Our sheep are rotated (moved to the next paddock) once every day; our ram flock is moved every other day. Accordingly, both our sheep and guardian dogs are broke to hot electric wire, so we can use step-in posts with two strands of polybraid wire to quickly set up our temporary paddocks.
No living organism can function without carbon or energy. Thus, 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?
- No vaccines
- No artificial hormones
- No antibiotics
- No pesticides or herbicides
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GRASS-FED SHEEP
PHONE
(731) 200-5260
LOCATION
Henry County, Tennessee
office@twelvestones.farm
