Rooted Local

The way Rooted Local works is incredibly simple: we visit the top small-scale regenerative farms in Texas, build friendships with the farmers, and pay fair market prices for their meat. Customers like yourself then get access to their nutrient-dense, high quality meat by becoming a Rooted member.

Once you sign up, we’ll pack your meat in either 10 or 20 lb boxes (just beef, beef + chicken, beef + chicken + pork) & hand-deliver it to you the last weekend of every month. We’ll never ship your meat in the mail. We’ll never source from foreign countries (or even outside of Texas!) All of our meat is corn & soy free. All of the animals we source spend their entire lives outdoors & have the highest quality of life possible.

It’s a win-win: you get access to the healthiest meat in Texas, and in the process help support & build back a thriving, regenerative future for farmers within Texas. Join the tribe today at rootedlocaltx.com

Our food system is broken. We’re doing things a different way.

Industrial / big agriculture thinks of farming & husbanding animals as a system in need of technological perfection. The farm becomes a factory whose singular goal and concern is to export the maximum calories for the most amount of profit possible.

The accounting for such a system does not include the soil, the farmers quality of life, the livestock, the community they feed. All it is concerned about is money.

It’s Rooted’s belief that when farming shifts from an ancient art motivated by love to a profit-maximizing business guided by fear, all roads inevitably lead to less nutrient dense foods accompanied by chemicals like glyphosate, destroyed local ecosystems, and a host of other unpleasant side effects.

Farms are not factories. Farmers can’t ignore biology, they can’t ignore ecology. Good farmers acknowledge limits & shape their artistry to the specific needs of their place. Misinformed farmers ignore limits & try to overcome them with more debt, more machines, and more chemicals.

At Rooted we are trying to find & support & build back a network of Texas farmers who love their land, love their work, and take seriously their responsibility as stewards. We view it as our responsibility to provide you with an easy alternative to the industrial system. An alternative that values the quality of life of farmers, values chemical free, nutrient dense food, values livestock who lead dignified lives.

All our products come vetted from farms using the highest standards.

Standards for our beef:
- Must be outside all of their lives with access to fresh water, minerals, and natural grasses that come straight from the earth
- Rotationally grazed to fresh pasture
- No antibiotics, GH, chemical fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides, or GMO seed
- Handled humanely with love, no electric shock

Standards for our chicken:
- Must be outside all of their lives with room to scratch, peck, and forage
- Must have access to clean fresh water at all times
- Supplemental feed must be non-GMO and never contain any corn or soy
- No antibiotics
- No beak trimming or wing clipping

Standards for our pork:
- Must be outside all of their lives in pasture or forest with room to dig, root, and forage
- Must have access to clean fresh water at all times
- No antibiotics or growth hormones ever
- Supplemental feed must be non-GMO and never contain any corn or soy
- No nose rings or any other modifications that prevent species appropriate behavior

On top of that, we meet our farmers, shake hands, and support those who love their land, are committed to their communities, and have rootedness in Texas. 

Support these farmers today at rootedlocaltx.com

Did you know grass-fed doesn’t always mean clean and naturally raised with love?

Some grass-fed producers feed their cattle grass-based pellets mixed with sorghum syrup and other weird things so they can simply say “grass-fed” on the label. A lot of the other ones will still plant GMO seeds into the soil and spray pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers all over so they can push the cattle past what nature allows. Not at Rooted.

We visit each ranch we source from and carefully vet their practices to make sure no funny business is going on and you have animals that are raised as nature intended. It takes much more time and work, but there’s no other way to know unless you go visit and shake hands with your rancher.

Do you want the most natural, clean, and healthy meat you can find? We’ve done the work for you. Join the movement today at rootedlocaltx.com

Our solution to helping our local food system return to wholeness: start with connecting consumers and their farmers.

Not everyone has time to go direct to 10 different farms in a week to shake hands and pick up their food. That’s where Rooted comes in. We bring meat from our vetted farms straight to your doorstep.

Our model also allows for your money to stay local. Our drivers are local, and much more of your money goes direct to support Texas producers, not to packaging your meat with dry ice and paying UPS and FedEx 30% to ship it across the country.

Food belongs local. Join the movement today at rootedlocaltx.com

Where does your dollar go when you buy your food?

Since WW2 the number of farms in America has decreased from 7 million to less than 2 million farms.

The US proclaimed farming “Get Big or Get Out”, in the 1970s favoring massive industrial operations.

Small scale farms producing food on a human scale were quickly replaced by massive industrial farms raising only corn, wheat, and soy with the help of insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides.

The diversity of food sources that was a hallmark of American farming culture quickly fell apart.

Diversity in nature is a hallmark of a resilient ecosystem. A more resilient Texas economy is one with hundreds of flourishing small-scale farms. With more farms spread out across the state, no single failure jeopardizes the rest of the state’s food production.

Small-scale regenerative farms are not reliant on fertilizer produced in a war torn country. They are significantly less reliant on feed from the four big cash crops (corn, soy, wheat, rice). They don’t rely on on corporate supply chains.

Our goal is to help support and build back farms like these within Texas.

Rooted buys directly from Texas farms & ranches at fair prices, and hand delivers the meat to you monthly.

Supporting local may seem inconsequential in the scheme of things, but if enough people believe in the importance, we will make Texas healthier and far more resilient against any craziness the world may present us with. Join the movement today at rootedlocaltx.com