“It’s like a salad bar,” he said, pointing out the different kinds of greens in the pasture.
Grass is all the cows at Working Cows Dairy eat. And that pasture-based diet led the Slocomb dairy farm to receive certification from Animal Welfare Approved, an independent body that audits and certifies farms that raises animals under animal welfare standards, outdoors on a pasture or range. The certification allows the dairy to add the Animal Welfare Approved food label to their products.
Working Cows Dairy is a certified organic dairy located on Highway 103 between Slocomb and Wicksburg. It’s the third dairy in Alabama to receive the Animal Welfare Approved certification. Northern Lights Farm, a goat dairy in Empire, and Stone Hollow Farmstead, a goat dairy and laying hen operation in Harpersville, also operate under the certification.
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