About Us
Our story is built on family values, honest farming, and a commitment to raising quality products with care. Welcome to Sawmill Creek Farms.
Our Story
Sawmill Creek Farms
My name is Sarah Knust and my husband’s name is Nick. We are a crop and livestock farm that raises corn, soybeans, wheat, hay, cattle, pigs, meat chickens, chickens for eggs and ducks for eggs. We sell self-serve straw and when available we also offer self-serve hay.
Sawmill Creek Farms was officially established in 2012; we bought our farm; where our home and store, is in the spring of 2013 and married in the fall of the same year. I grew up on a dairy farm in northern Michigan and missed having cattle, so we bought a few calves for me to raise as a hobby in 2015, after our first son was born. In 2016 we sold our first cuts of beef out of a freezer in our basement to friends and family.
When word got out about our delicious beef, we quickly outgrew our basement and set up shop in our garage and added freezers in 2017, after our 2nd son was born. We added pigs to raise in 2018. We ended up getting our retail food license to make it legal for us to sell by the pound. When we started outgrowing our garage, we decided to remodel the store that had been on our farm when we bought it and moved out there in 2019. In 2020, we had decided to add meat chickens to raise.
All of the meat sold in our store is raised right here on our farm with our 2 little boys. All are given a non-GMO grain diet from crops we produce here on our farm as well. They are all antibiotic and hormone-free. They are ethically and humanely raised and when ready for processing are taken to a USDA inspected facility, we do not process them ourselves. We retain a retail food license and are inspected yearly by the USDA to sell out of our store and is displayed on the wall. Our goal is to provide delicious healthy-tasting meat for our community.
We have been growing ever since. So much so that we got invited to compete in a meat competition out in the state of Wyoming in 2023, we ultimately won that competition and earned the title of “Best beef in the west” and earned the belt buckle that you can see hanging in the store today. You can also read the article that got wrote about us in the November 2023 issue of the “American Beef Producer” magazine below the belt buckle. In 2024 we welcomed our 3rd son, we love raising and teaching our boys the way of farming.
We also own and operate the farm just north of our home and cattle operation. We farm 2100 acres. In the fall my husband runs the combine and I run the grain cart, our kids love riding in the big equipment. It is a busy life for sure but we love every minute of it and can’t imagine raising our boys any other way.
