Royal Family Farming

In Washington’s Royal Slope, Austin Allred is passionate about more than his cows. At Royal Family Farms, Austin recycles manure into renewable energy, operates one of the world’s largest worm farms, and employs biochar technology to feed his passion for improving soil health and reducing waste. #SoilHealth #DairyFarming #SustainableDairy #Conservation

Austin explains how we "close the loop".

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Thanks to our partners at AgWest Farm Credit and Stacy Baker for featuring us recently and allowing me to talk about one of my favorite topics – soil health. ? “We talk a lot about soil health, animal health and environmental health,” says Austin. “In nature, these symbiotic systems are all connected, and they build on each other. My dad, Jerry, is a longtime potato grower. For years we’ve used a system of rotating cover crops and no-till practices to build organic matter in the soil and sequester carbon. Then we’ve added cows in the farming ecosystem to upcycle the byproducts – potato culls and things humans can’t digest – to produce high-quality protein and nutrient-rich compost that goes back to our fields.” ? Here's the link to the full article:

Here is the registration page for the upcoming soil health event hosted by Royal Family Farming. Come learn from some experts about what we can do to advance regenerative agriculture in our region.

Come join us to learn from experts about recent trends and advances in soil health and regenerative farming. I'm excited to learn from Ray and Alejandro's experiences and see where we can improve. If you're interested in attending let me know, all are welcome. Thanks to Austin Allred and the team at Royal Family Farming for organizing this event and making it happen! #soilhealth

Why do we do it? Why do we do it the way that we do it? Here's a clip from the Real Food Real People Podcast with Dillon Honcoop where we discuss just that. You can view the whole interview here: https://lnkd.in/etD5Y2cp

Excited to share that we have partnered with Will Taylor Jr and his team at Grow United, which is a blockchain company. Together we will be launching FarmTracer – an app that allows users to gain confidence and authenticity of their food, knowing its journey from farm to table. By scanning a barcode at point of purchase, whether that be a grocery store or restaurant, the consumer can see the history and path of that product from farm to fork. FarmTracer will provide complete transparency showing the consumer everything about the farm, from the diet they feed their animals to their product’s carbon footprint. ? Using the Grow Blockchain, FarmTracer verifies and confirms actions in the product’s lifecycle such as origin, growing location, processing date, and more.???"The mission of FarmTracer is to create consumer trust through transparent production,” Grow United President Will Taylor said of the app. ? This is currently in Alpha Testing and we can wait to share more about it with you.

Royal Family Farming is more than just our family but a family of companies all working together to create systems that reduce waste and benefit each other. ? These include Royal Dairy, Royal Ranch, Royal Honey Company and Nurst (our skincare company that uses dairy colostrum). ? We have more in the works and will continue to add additional products and offerings as part of our goal to scale our regenerative agriculture operation. ? To learn more I invite you to visit?www.RoyalFamilyFarming.com?or feel free to ask if you have any questions.

“We’re taking regenerative ag and the concepts that we’ve learned from these small-scale farms and blowing it up, to be able to feed the masses,” said Allred. Allred said the system has helped Royal Dairy get one step closer to its goal of scaling up sustainability. While there are plenty of farms that use sustainable management methods, those farms are often smaller, serve specialty markets and sell their products at a higher price. Allred’s goal is to prove that sustainability can be a realistic option for large-scale operations like his.?