Kinne Brook Farm cuts top quality first- and second-cutting hay that is harvested from both the farm’s 40 acres of hay fields and 25 acres of our neighbors’ fields. The hay is a mixture of timothy, orchard grass, and clover, and is all that our cows are fed.

We are beginning the process of converting our fields to organic management practices, and therefore have not used any chemical fertilizers on them in at least ten years. In 2011 we began spraying with fish fertilizer, an all natural soil supplement that will improve the quality of the hay, the health of the soil, and the livestock that the hay sustains.  We also fertilize with our own composted manure, and with rock dust, which helps to remineralize soil that has been hayed for generations.  Finally, we graze all of our fields at least once a year, as it helps with fertilization and with trampling organic matter back into the ground, as well as giving us more acres to feed during the grazing months.