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The Fast family walking across their pasture toward the wooded hills, a white barn in the distance

Faster Pastures: Scottish Highland cattle in Watertown, Tennessee

Scottish Highland cattle · A family farm in Watertown, Tennessee

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Since 2018

We're Rhett and Sarah Fast. Since 2018 we've raised Scottish Highland cattle on the hills outside Watertown, Tennessee, with our kids, our horses, a few goats and a coop full of hens. It's a small herd, and that's the point: every one of them has a name.

Est. 2018Watertown, Tennessee
AHCA registeredScottish Highland herd
Four generationsOn one pasture
State FairShown in Tennessee, 2026

Close-up of a Highland's eye beneath a golden fringe and long horns

The Highland

Gentle.Hardy.Unhurried.

A red Highland cow with sweeping horns stands in the autumn pasture

Chapter one

It started with one cow.

In the summer of 2018 we brought home our first registered Highland, a red cow named Brianna.

She's still here. So are her daughter, her granddaughter, and now a great-grandson: four generations on one pasture.

Farm life

Raised alongside a family.

A father and son feed hay to a red Highland in an autumn pasture — 01 Evening hay

Small hands holding three fresh brown eggs — 02 Breakfast, collected

A horse nuzzles a child’s boot — 03 Old friends

Sarah carries hay through the herd — 04 Feeding time

A little girl peeks through the chicken coop gate — 05 Checking on the hens

A boy hauls an armful of hay across the field — 06 Every hand helps

Weathered blue barn siding and a small window — 07 The blue barn

Two horses touching noses in the pasture — 08 Neighbors

The cattle aren't a side project. They're part of how our kids are growing up.

The herd

Every one of them has a name.

15 head today, 7 of them born right here. Handled every day, and known by name.

A young Highland with a shaggy fringe looks into the camera

Close-up of a Highland's nose, a wisp of hay in its mouth

A white Highland with its face buried in hay

Our way

Small on purpose.

Known by name.

We keep the herd small enough that every animal is handled by family, every day.

Papers, and then some.

Our Highland cows are registered with the AHCA. Registration is where a good Highland starts, not where it ends.

Born in the cool months.

A Highland wears a winter coat all year, so we plan calves for late fall and winter, not a Tennessee summer.

How we raise them

Rhett kneels to greet a red Highland in the pasture

A father and son feed a Highland from a bucket

A Highland of your own

Starting a herd? Start with a good one.

Now and then a heifer, bull or steer from our herd is ready for a new home. People on our list hear first.

See what's available Join the list

Sarah and the kids walk down the gravel lane toward the white barn

Come walk the pasture with us.

Say hello fasterpasturestn@gmail.com