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Your North Texas source for Pastured Poultry
that is sustainably raised, from boots to roots!
Hey yall! Welcome to 7 Arrow Ranch, where we dance in our design as stewards, caretakers, creators, and healers of our little piece of paradise located here in Bowie, TX. I’m your Rancherita, Heather Russell. Together with my husband Darrin and our 5 children, we work to raise animals in a manner that is ethically, ecologically, and emotionally beneficial to us, the animals, our ranch’s ecosystem, and the planet—from boots to roots!
How It Works
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Who We Are
7 Arrow Ranch is a small regenerative family farm in the heart of North Central Texas.
We produce nutrient-dense pasture-raised chickens and turkeys that are raised in an ethically, ecologically, and emotionally sustainable way for the benefit of our family, our farm, and our whole community.
What We Do
First and foremost, we are grass farmers. Everything else stems from there.
Healthy, living soil produces healthy animals, which in turn nourish the land they work, while nourishing our bodies as well.
One of our mentors, Joel Salatin, says that if you have to put on a hazmat suit to visit a farm (like you do to visit a factory chicken farm), you may not want to eat what comes from it!
We couldn't agree more!!
To that end, we practice regenerative ag.
This is a broad term that encompasses principles from soil building via rotational grazing and multi-species "stacking", to decentralizing our food supply chain, to improving our land, water supply, and even the climate, via carbon capture.
This ensures healthy, nutrient-dense, grass-based foods that heal our bodies while simultaneously healing the land.
Why We Do It
When we bought our farm in 2018, all we knew was that we didn't want to use any chemicals here. But we had no idea what that meant, or what it looked to have a farm that didn't require some kind of input for making the grass grow. When we began researching raising animals, feeding them, maintaining pastures, and all the things we had zero background in, we got a crash course on synthetic fertilizer and pesticide ingredients. We learned how the food we were used to eating was, quite frankly, gross and toxic. This whole journey has been a lot like drinking water from a water hose!
We started paying attention to labels, looking up ingredients, watching our kids' behavior, and when milk prices jumped to $5+/gallon anyway, we started buying raw milk and beef from a local dairy. The first thing I noticed was the improvement of my allergies. Since then, we've worked hard to eat food that either we have raised, or that has been raised locally, in a manner that coincides with our values.
We were already healthy to begin with. But we have definitely noticed a difference in our overall well-being. Our improved health, clearer focus, strengthened immune systems, and my complete healing from severe post-partum anxiety and depression are a testament to the powerful and healing nature of foods raised in a clean, toxin-free manner.
