Farm Partner · Campbell, Texas

Windy Meadows Family Farm

A Texas family farm raising pasture-raised poultry in Campbell for more than two decades.

Mike and Connie Hale operate Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas, where they raise poultry across fresh pasture and remain closely involved in the decisions behind the food.

Mike and Connie Hale operate Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas and remain closely involved in how their poultry is raised.

Windy Meadows Family Farm at a Glance

Farmers
Mike & Connie Hale and family
Location
Campbell, Texas Hunt County
Established
2001
Known for
Pasture-raised poultry
Pasture
Regular movement onto fresh ground
Current feed
Soy-free · Corn-free Non-GMO supplemental ration
Processing
USDA-inspected on-farm poultry processing facility

Where our sourcing begins

Before the chicken, there is the farmer

It is easy to reduce better food, including pasture-raised chicken, to a checklist. Pasture-raised. Soy-free. Corn-free. Non-GMO. Those questions matter. We ask them too.

But after years of sourcing food for our own family and the families who trust ROCK Farmhouse, we have come to believe there is a more important question underneath all the others:

Who is the person making the decisions?

A label cannot tell you whether the farmer notices when something is not working, whether they are willing to change course, or why they chose to farm this way in the first place.

That comes from knowing the farmer.

Mike and Connie Hale of Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas

Windy Meadows began with a desire to put better food on the Hale family's own table. More than two decades later, that family purpose still shapes the way Mike and Connie approach the farm. Windy Meadows Family Farm · Campbell, Texas

Experience built by watching

More than two decades of paying attention

After more than two decades raising poultry at Windy Meadows Family Farm, Mike and Connie Hale have learned that farming is not a formula. Much of what makes a good farmer comes from years spent watching animals, pasture, weather and the changing needs of a working Texas farm.

The birds

Watching behavior, comfort, health and the changing needs of each flock.

The pasture

Paying attention to forage, ground conditions and when it is time to move.

The feed

Continuing to evaluate what goes into the birds and what could be improved.

The seasons

Adapting husbandry to Texas weather, heat and the rhythms of the farm.

Good farmers learn. They adjust. They notice. We are looking for people who are still paying attention.

Pasture-raised chickens at Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas

How the birds are raised

Raised on pasture. Moved with purpose.

At Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas, pasture is not scenery around a chicken house. It is part of how the flock is managed.

Once the birds are old enough to live outside safely, they are raised in movable shelters where they can scratch, forage and experience fresh air and sunlight.

The shelters are moved regularly onto fresh ground, giving the birds new pasture while previously used areas have time to rest.

Pasture-raised should describe a way of farming, not simply a picture of grass on a package.

Know what your food ate

Feed matters too

Pasture-raised chickens still require supplemental feed, which is why we believe families should be able to ask what is in that ration. That part of the conversation should not disappear behind the words pasture-raised.

What the birds eat matters to us, just as pasture, movement and husbandry do.

But feed formulas can change as farmers learn, inputs change and new questions are asked. That is why the person making those decisions matters just as much as today's ingredient list.

Current ration

What the birds are currently fed

Soy-free
Corn-free
Non-GMO

The meat chickens currently sourced by ROCK Farmhouse from Windy Meadows Family Farm receive a soy-free, corn-free, non-GMO supplemental ration. The birds also forage as they move across pasture.

Feed is part of why we trust Windy Meadows.
It is not the entire reason.

From pasture through processing

Responsibility stays close to the farm

At Windy Meadows Family Farm, another important part of the poultry supply chain stays connected to the same family who raised the birds.

Raised on the farm

Mike and Connie Hale remain directly connected to how the birds are raised and managed.

Processed on the farm

Windy Meadows poultry is processed in the Hale family's USDA-inspected on-farm poultry processing facility in Campbell, Texas.

Responsibility stays visible

The people responsible for raising the flock do not disappear when the birds leave pasture.

Keeping processing on the farm shortens another part of the supply chain and allows the Hale family to remain closely involved as poultry moves from pasture to a finished product prepared for other families.

The shorter the chain, the easier it is to know where responsibility lives.

Beyond the checklist

The checklist matters. The farmer matters more.

Pasture, feed, husbandry and processing matter. But every one of those choices begins with a person.

We care about pasture. We care about feed. We care about husbandry, processing and the inputs that go into a farm.

But none of those things exists independently of the person making the decisions.

Farming is made up of thousands of choices that will never appear on a certification or label. That is why we want to know who the farmer is, why they farm the way they do, what they have learned and whether they are willing to keep asking difficult questions.

Standards tell us what to ask. Relationship helps us understand the answers.

What local food means to us

Bring the people behind the food back into view

Somewhere along the way, food became strangely anonymous.

We learned to recognize logos and certifications while forgetting the names of the people actually raising what we eat.

When a ROCK Farmhouse family brings home chicken from Windy Meadows Family Farm, we want them to know that it came from Campbell, Texas; that Mike and Connie Hale are behind the farm; and that their family has spent more than two decades raising poultry.

That connection matters because local food should mean more than geography alone. It should make the people, the place and the decisions behind the food easier to see.

Local food is not simply about fewer miles.
It is about fewer degrees of separation.

From farm to family

From Campbell, Texas to families across Dallas–Fort Worth

Windy Meadows Family Farm is located in Campbell, Texas, in Hunt County east of Dallas.

Through our relationship with Windy Meadows Family Farm, ROCK Farmhouse helps families throughout Dallas–Fort Worth and North Texas connect with pasture-raised chicken from a Texas family farm whose people and farming practices we know.

ROCK Farmhouse is a private North Texas farm collective. Our role is to make relationships with independent farms and producers easier for families to maintain without making the farmer invisible.

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.