Our farm, Food Raised Right, LLC, is located in central Madison County, Ohio, next to Bradford Creek. We are 30 min. west of Columbus, 50 min. east of Dayton.  The family farm is 365 acres that consists of varying crops of corn, soybeans, wheat, rye, hay, pastures – and lots of livestock!

We have a quickly growing sheep herd that we use for vegetation management on our farm as well as solar sites in the county.   The flock grows organically (meaning from within), by keeping the majority of our ewe lambs born every spring to increase herd size and the amount of land the herd can graze.  We have a limited supply of  lamb available for purchase annually as well. 

We continue to keep a herd of Angus type cows that calve in the spring.  The Freezer Beef supply is very limited in the 2026 season due to herd reduction. 

FRR, LLC (abbreviated b/c it’s a mouthful) offers professional vegetation management as well as consulting services.   We utilize sheep grazing, mechanical (mowing) means as well as chemical application where needed.   We maintain a Commercial Applicators’ License with multiple categories of certification including Utility (Cat 5) through ODA. 

We are dedicated to protecting the environment we all live in.  Through the use of rotational grazing and cropping we protect the soil while improving it.  Whenever we can, we use cover crops (between cash crops) to catch nutrients that could otherwise run off the field and into a stream.

The longer story of our farm: 

We both attended college at The Ohio State University in the late 90’s for our Animal Science, Farm Management and Beef/Sheep Production degrees and education.  Raising our 4 kids with a strong faith in God and on the farm have always been our key goals as parents and now that 2 are grown they’re able to be heavily involved in the day to day operations of the farm. 

Though many of our ideas, ideals and even our farm name, have changed over the years our core beliefs have not.  We believe that animals should be raised ethically and without added hormones, for the animals’ benefit and the consumers. We believe that they should not need to receive antibiotics to keep them healthy, they should be raised in an environment that keeps them naturally healthy.  We believe that animals should be fed an all vegetarian diet – cattle and sheep are herbivores (plant eating critters) and it is not right to force them to eat meat, bone meal, fish meal, or even chicken manure (yes, all of this has been done to livestock by man).

Due to the economical challenges (extremely high land prices) of increasing farm acreage we’ve diversified over the years and have made a lot of changes on and around the farm.   One of these changes was from Natural Osage Angus Beef to Food Raised Right, LLC several years ago when farm markets were our weekly income stream for several months of the year.  The original name of Natural Osage Angus Beef just didn’t fit our farm anymore since beef nowhere near all that we do.   What we do, is raise food the way it was meant to be raised, in an ethical way for our family, community, our livestock and everyone’s environment.

-Matt & Kristin