WHITCOMB REGENERATIVE LIVESTOCK FARM
Building a farm that works with the land.
Whitcomb Regenerative Livestock Farm is a Massachusetts farm in development, being built around regenerative land stewardship, pasture-based livestock, local food, and thoughtful, staged growth.
We are currently searching for the right farm property while developing the grazing systems, infrastructure, production plans, partnerships, and markets that will support the farm for the long term.
A livestock farm built deliberately, from the ground up.
Our goal is to establish a diversified, pasture-based livestock farm where the land, animals, and farm business are managed as parts of one system.
RLF is being designed around adaptive grazing, healthy pasture recovery, portable infrastructure, careful animal husbandry, and production that grows only as the land, forage, processing access, customer demand, and farm capacity can support it.
Current plans begin with poultry and other early farm enterprises, then add grazing livestock and complementary enterprises in stages. Long-term planning includes cattle, hair sheep, laying hens, pasture-raised broilers, feeder pigs, rabbits, turkeys, bees, and other enterprises that prove a good fit for the land and the farm.
The objective is not to stock the greatest number of animals as quickly as possible. It is to build a resilient farm capable of producing good local food while improving and protecting the agricultural land that supports it.
WHERE WE ARE TODAY
The farm is being built before the first commercial flock reaches the pasture.
Whitcomb Regenerative Livestock Farm is currently in active development. We have not yet secured the permanent farm property, and commercial RLF livestock production and sales have not yet begun.
That does not mean the farm is waiting to start.
Current work includes evaluating Massachusetts farmland and long-term land-access opportunities; developing grazing, forage, water, fencing, livestock, and winter-feed systems; preparing conservation and agricultural-program relationships; planning portable poultry infrastructure; researching processing and regulatory requirements; and developing the direct-market and farm-to-table relationships the future farm will need.
We are doing this work now so that livestock numbers and infrastructure can follow the realities of the land instead of forcing a predetermined farm plan onto whatever property becomes available.
Current stage: Land search + pre-launch farm development
OUR APPROACH
Regenerative farming is not a fixed recipe.
The land will ultimately determine how the farm operates.
RLF is being planned around intensively managed grazing, adequate pasture recovery, protection of living soil cover, careful manure distribution, adaptive stocking, and the use of multiple livestock species where each can contribute to the system.
Our current grazing concept places cattle at the front of the primary rotation, followed by sheep and then poultry where forage conditions, animal needs, weather, and recovery periods make that sequence appropriate. Pigs are planned for separate controlled rotations rather than simply following the grazing herd.
There will not be one permanent number of animals per acre or one fixed number of days between grazing events. Stocking, movement, and recovery will respond to the actual farm: its soils, forage production, season, rainfall, winter conditions, and what the land shows us over time.
The goal is straightforward — produce food while leaving the land healthier, more resilient, and more productive because it is being farmed.
LIVESTOCK & PRODUCTION
A diversified farm, developed one enterprise at a time.
RLF is being designed as a multispecies livestock farm, but not every enterprise will begin at once. Each addition must be supported by suitable land, infrastructure, feed, processing access, markets, labor, and working capital.
DEVELOPING
Poultry & Eggs
Poultry is central to the early farm plan. Current development includes laying hens and a pasture-raised broiler system designed around approximately 300-bird production batches using four human-movable, approximately 75-bird pasture shelters.
Commercial RLF poultry production has not yet begun.
PLANNED
Grazing Livestock
Long-term grazing plans include hair sheep and cattle managed through intensively managed, adaptive pasture rotations.
These animals will be added only after the farm has demonstrated adequate forage, fencing, water, winter-feed security, handling systems, processing access, and financial capacity.
PLANNED / DEVELOPING
Complementary Enterprises
The broader farm plan includes feeder pigs, rabbits, turkeys, bees and honey production, and other enterprises that prove compatible with the land and market.
Rabbit and turkey systems are under active development, including production, processing, regulatory, and market planning.
LOCAL FOOD
Different products need different paths to market.
RLF is being developed to produce food for local and regional customers while also preserving direct RLF sales channels for live animals and breeding stock where those enterprises develop.
For meat, eggs, honey, and other customer-facing farm products, Cricket Hill Farmstand is the retail and sales channel being developed alongside the farm. It does not depend on having a permanent farmstand building.
Live-animal and breeding-stock sales remain an RLF function rather than a Cricket Hill Farmstand retail function.
FROM THE FARM
Farm-specific work, decisions, and lessons as RLF develops.
The RLF Farm Journal documents the agricultural side of building the farm: land evaluation, grazing and forage systems, livestock planning, fencing and water, conservation work, processing, production decisions, and the lessons that come from putting those systems into practice.
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Organic-Ready From the Beginning Does Not Mean Certified Organic
RLF plans to keep organic-ready records early, but the farm is not currently Certified Organic and will not use organic claims before certification is actually earned.
Why Our Broiler Plan Uses Four 75-Bird Pasture Shelters
RLF’s current broiler design divides a roughly 300-bird batch among four human-movable pasture shelters instead of relying on one large tractor.
WORK WITH US
A farm is built through more than livestock and land.
RLF is actively developing the relationships that will make the future farm stronger.
Land Opportunities
We are searching for suitable Massachusetts farmland and are open to purchase, lease-to-own, long-term lease, stewardship, and other durable arrangements.
Agricultural Partnerships
We welcome connections with farmers, processors, veterinarians, conservation professionals, agricultural organizations, educators, and others involved in practical livestock and land-based agriculture.
Chefs & Food Partners
We are developing relationships with chefs, restaurants, and specialty food businesses interested in locally raised livestock products as appropriate production and legal processing pathways come online.
PART OF A LARGER VISION
The production farm within Whitcomb Homestead.
Whitcomb Regenerative Livestock Farm is the agricultural production venture within the broader Whitcomb Homestead family enterprise.
RLF focuses specifically on farmland, livestock, regenerative management, agricultural production, and direct farm enterprises such as live-animal and breeding-stock sales.
Whitcomb Homestead tells the broader family, legacy, and multi-venture story. Cricket Hill Farmstand is being developed as the customer-facing retail channel for meat, eggs, honey, and other appropriate farm and local products.
Follow the farm as it takes shape.
RLF is still being established, but the work is already underway. Follow the land search, farm development, livestock planning, regenerative systems, and eventual transition into commercial production as Whitcomb Regenerative Livestock Farm grows from plan to working farm.