Autumn's Harvest Farm

About Autumn's Harvest Farm

Sarah and Tim Haws “jumped into” farming in 2001 in Seneca County, New York, near Tim’s hometown of Waterloo. Their Animal Welfare Approved cattle, laying hens, and pigs are truly pasture raised, producing meat that is healthier for consumers in a system that is better for the environment and the animals. At Autumn’s Harvest Farm, Murray Gray and British White cattle are intensively rotated to clean pasture daily. This allows their cattle to eat grass, get exercise, and perform their natural habits outside. This healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of disease and illness and the need for medications or antibiotics. Tim and Sarah also raise Tamworth, Duroc, Hereford and Large Blacks pigs. They’ve specifically selected their breeding stock for their ability to thrive on pasture and in woodlots and their instinct to farrow, or successfully birth and raise young. The pigs are raised outdoors year round and given natural feed that was developed on the farm and is free of antibiotics. Years of careful breeding and pasture-raising have produced exquisite pork that is moist, flavorful and has marbling which rivals the best beef. In 2009, Autumn's Harvest Farm built an on-farm store to better serve their customers. The attached processing facility has allowed them to provide their customers with a consistent product, cut and packaged to specification. The addition of a farm store and processing facility has helped them to become a true full circle farm where they can oversee every step of their animals’ lives and processing. It also allows them to make all of our own sausages, bacon, and hams using custom recipes. The Haws biggest challenge in managing the 100 acres they own and lease, their farm store and processing facility is not the farming, but the marketing. Getting their name out there takes a great deal of time away from their work on the farm and that is largely why they became Animal Welfare Approved. They were looking for a certification that would assure their customers of the exceptional practices they were using to raise their livestock, without the need for everyone to come out the farm. AWA, says Tim, “has done a ton to help my farm,” and he is seeing an increase in sales as a result. “People love it!” To learn more about the Autumn’s Harvest Farm, visit www.autumnsharvestfarm.com or reach them at [email protected] or (607) 869-3879. You can also follow Autumn’s Harvest Farm on Facebook to stay up to date on farm news, photos, and events.