About Us

Bup's Family Farm is owned and operated by Craig Rabidoux, AKA "Bup". and his family - wife, children, and grand children, brother, and father.

He started asking questions about the store-bought meat we all consume - where does it come from, what's really in this, or how is it raised? The answers to those questions were more than disappointing.

Bup decided to do something about it, by starting a farm to produce healthy food for his family and community. With zero previous experience, but a passion to do it right, he purchased land and a tractor.

Bup aspires to not only feed thousands of people with the healthiest meat possible, but to pass on the art of regenerative farming to his children and grandchildren.

We are a regenerative agriculture farm. This means everything we do revolves around producing an improving the most important part of growing food - the soil. No fertilizer, no planting, no pesticides.

The animals' grazing, foraging, and manure is all that is necessary to produce beautiful green pastures with rich organic matter. Our animals are moved daily, allowing the land to regenerate for a minimum of 40 days before having animals back on pasture.

Our chickens are pasture-raised - this means they forage for bugs, larvae, seeds, dirt, and grass. They are happy, and stress-free, living the way nature intended. Our chickens are also offered non-soy, non-GMO feed to snack on.

Sunlight, fresh-air, variety of forage, and clean water is what it takes to make the healthiest chickens. The tractor gives the chickens all of that - open section to allow sunlight, sheltered section for protection, fresh-air 24/7, non-selective forage, fresh pasture every day, and clean water from a closed bucket unexposed to the elements.

The coop that you see is called a "tractor", and is moved every day. Chickens prefer shelter, and flocking together to feel safe - they actually do not prefer to be "free range", despite long time marketing efforts.

Containing the chickens gives them protection, while still allowing for sunlight, and keeps their stress levels low. Containment also ensures that the chickens have a non-selective diet, forcing them to eat all of the piece of pasture they are on that day instead of just their favorites. A non-selective diet produces a more nutrient dense meat.

Since we move our chickens every day, they are not living in their own manure, keeping them healthy, dry, and disease-free. This also lays down just the right amount of manure to regenerate the soil, where it will rest for a minimum of 40 days before another animal is on that piece of pasture.

We plan to have bison on pasture by 2027, with meat available for purchase by 2028. Stay tuned!