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For pricing, booking, and availability, please click here Our charming on-farm guest cottage, Cypress Place, is now available for booking! The Cottage features 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, a full kitchen, and a living room with a wood burning fire place. Bedroom descriptions below: Bedroom 1: 2 queen beds Bedroom 2: 1 queen bed Bedroom 3: 1 queen, 1 twin, and 1 couch The cottage is just off Home Place Rd, and is walking distance to our farm store. The cottage sight is nestled in 80 acres of hardwoods and overlooks a beautiful pasture to the west.  Check out Steak...

First and foremost, I am not opposed to antibiotic use in animal or human health. Quite the opposite, I believe these miracle drugs are critical tools for both health systems. However, there’s a lesser known dirty little secret in industrial meat production involving these drugs that requires a lengthier description than can be encapsulated in a product label claim.    Industrial scale fattening of hogs, cattle, and chicken for harvest varies a bit from species to species, but the strategy is the same. To optimize efficiency and turn living beings into factory widgets, the animals must be crowded together. Proximity allows...

A few decades ago, small meat processing plants were not hard to find. They provided a valuable service: harvesting and butchering livestock for local farmers and freezing/ storing the meat year round. Most people did not have in-home freezers, especially not the giant chest freezers available today, so the plant took care of the storage. This arrangement gave small plants the nickname, “lockers”. Often, the freezer in such facilities would have drawers that rolled out, with a lock and key, like a bank deposit box. A customer could show up and snag some meat from their drawer, or locker, periodically...

Why Subscribe?  Home Place Pastures is a mission driven, fifth generation family farm in Como, MS. We use regenerative practices to produce 100% grass fed and finished beef and pasture raised pork. Our farm is a Certified Humane, No Antibiotics Ever program. Subscribing is the single most impactful way to support us and most cost effective and convenient way to get our award winning* products.  Why is this so important for us? We run a farm, a USDA processing facility, and a butcher shop/ restaurant on the Home Place. These enterprises support roughly 30 employees and a network of small...