Windy Meadows Family Farm
What began in 2001 as one family's desire to enjoy truly good chicken again grew into something much bigger.
Mike and Connie Hale built Windy Meadows alongside their eight children on 42 acres in East Texas. Over the years, many of those children have returned to the farm as adults, helping care for the birds, manage processing, serve customers, and carry the family's work into the next generation.
Their chickens are moved to fresh pasture every day, giving them new ground to forage while receiving carefully sourced non GMO feed. Processing takes place right on the farm in their USDA inspected facility, allowing the Hale family to remain closely involved from pasture to finished product.
For us, Windy Meadows represents what local food is supposed to feel like: a real family, deeply connected to their land and taking responsibility for the food they raise for other families.
See Windy Meadows in Action
Take a closer look at the farm and see how their chickens are raised on pasture in East Texas.
We want you to know the people behind your food.
ROCK Farmhouse grew out of our own family’s desire to find food we could feel good about bringing home. Over time, that meant getting to know the farmers, asking better questions, and building relationships with people who care deeply about how food is raised.
The people behind the food matter.
We do not want food to feel anonymous. We want you to know who raised it, where it came from, and the story behind the farm. Many of the families we partner with have become people we know, trust, and are proud to support.
We ask the questions we would want answered for our own family.
How were the animals raised? What were they fed? How was the food handled? Those details matter to us. We look for grass fed and grass finished beef, pasture raised meats and eggs, wild caught seafood, and other foods produced with care and intention.
We want you to be able to see for yourself.
We share the farm, the location, the raising practices, feed details when they matter, and the people behind the food so you can make your own informed decisions. Trust should come from knowing more, not from a label on a package.
Good food should feel more connected, not more complicated.
We built ROCK to make it easier for North Texas families to support small farms without having to spend every week driving from one farm to another. Our private collective brings those relationships together through neighborhood delivery and local pickup across the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Our Mission
To bring the farmer back into the family’s food story.
Long before food reaches our table, there was a person behind it. Someone tending the land, caring for animals, watching the weather, making decisions, and doing work most of us will never see.
Somewhere along the way, modern food made it easy for that person to disappear.
ROCK exists to bring that connection back.
We build real relationships with independent Texas farmers and small producers so the families we serve can know more than what is written on a label. They can know where their food came from, something about the people who raised it, and carry a little of that story home with them.
Because food was never meant to end as a product. It was meant to come home, gather people, and become part of a family’s story.