“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
— Wendell Berry
Creek Lake Farms is a generational farm settled in the heart of the Midwest prairie. Now in production for 100 years and raising beef, farming a variety of crops and incorporating the use of cover crops. These methods allow us to touch every aspect of the farming scale while improving our practices.
About the farmers…
A.J. is a fourth generation farmer, born and raised on the farm that we live on. But it wasn't always that way. A.J. and Maria both pursued higher educations out of state. After she graduated college, the high school sweethearts married and eventually established a life on the East Coast. Corporate burnout hit shortly before they welcomed their first son to their family. Feeling pulled to have the child's grandparents be a regular part of his life, a move "back home" was facilitated by the end of 2014. We have had a lot of challenges since then, but believe the farm is the right place to raise our three boys. While we celebrate the accomplishment credited to the three generations before us, we look toward the future with gratefulness to stand on their shoulders with intentions to continue to strive toward better practices, practices that will make it possible for a fifth generation to farm, if they so choose.
Get In Touch.
We would love to hear from you. Whether it’s a visit or trip out to the farm, an inquiry on this whole process or questions about our beef, we want to hear from you!
Please graciously allow 24 hours for a response as we are attending to your dinner.