Four String Farm offers pastured pork, pastured poultry, fresh eggs, and seasonal vegetables and herbs throughout the year. No hormones, steroids or antibiotics are ever given to our animals. We never use chemical pesticides or fertilizers on our plants.
Our products are available at Coastal Bend Health Foods, in Rockport’s Heritage District, next door to Latitude. Or, we deliver to your door in Rockport, by request. E-mail us at justinbutts@clearwire.net for a delivery.
About the Author
Justin Butts is a farmer, musician, mountain climber, and former Army Ranger. His wife Kayla is a licensed dietician, a home chef, and a future veterinarian. They live off the land at their home in Rockport, TX.
Justin built Four String Farm on raw forestland. He started with a 35 acre stretch of thick forest in the middle of an isolated, semi-arid coastal desert. Working by himself, using methods practiced by pioneer farmers of 200 years ago, he carved a niche of domesticity from this wilderness and made a home on it. Wild plants and animals continue to thrive around and within the cultivated land.
He became interested in nutrition while “ultralight backpacking”, hiking 20 to 40 miles per day for days or weeks at a time, crossing hundreds of miles of remote rugged country on foot. On long distance treks, where the body must perform at peak levels through every type of stress, good nutrition is critical. Good nutrition is the daily focus of his farm business.
Justin has traveled the world, climbing mountains, hiking jungles and deserts, and trekking for weeks at a time through remote regions of India, Asia, Europe, and North America. He has survived as a solo climber in some of the most treacherous and beautiful landscapes in the world, re-supplying with ingenuity from farms, rural outposts, and native families along the way.
Justin worked in the corporate world for Coca-Cola North America, where managed a variety of national food service accounts and also helped capture the Subway global restaurant chain, and convert 25,000 Subway stores from Pepsi to Coke. He is one of the few people in the history of Coca-Cola to help build a global account team from scratch. Prior to that, he worked in petro-chemical refineries as an in-vessel catalyst technician, where he dropped into reactors wearing a space helmet under continuous oxygen supply, and used a jack-hammer and dynamite to break up the catalyst and vacuum it out.
Justin served as a machine gun team leader in 2nd Ranger Battalion, in Ft. Lewis, WA. He attended Texas State, where he was elected student body president, and graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M—Corpus Christi.
