ROOT DOWN FARM

Root Down Farm is a female-owned pasture-based poultry and pig farm located in the beautiful coastal town of Pescadero, California. Our mission is to humanely raise the healthiest animals possible, while working within our ecosystem to responsibly steward the land and improve soil health.

We work with various breeds of animals to balance our humane standards with the meat folks want to eat. Our animals roam the pastures, are fed an organic, non-GMO grain and are never given any hormones!

Dede Boies started farming because she “loved the work and the simplicity of planting a seed and growing something that’s edible.” But it wasn’t long before she discovered another passion: humanely raising healthy and happy animals. For the last six years, she’s run Root Down Farm in Pescadero, where she raises chickens, ducks, turkeys and pigs in a pasture-based system that strives to integrate care for the animals with stewardship of the land.