Pastured
Poultry

The Short Version

What is pastured poultry?

It means the birds live on grass, the way chickens are built to. Instead of a crowded barn, ours roam outdoors — scratching, pecking, dust-bathing, and foraging on grass, bugs, and whatever else the pasture serves up that day.

It's the old way of raising a chicken, and it's more work. We move them to fresh ground regularly so they always have clean grass under their feet. The trade-off is a healthier bird, a better-tasting bird, and a pasture that's better off for having had them on it.

On the Plate

Food that's actually better for you

A bird that spends its life foraging eats a richer diet, and that carries through to your table. Studies on pasture-raised birds and their eggs have found higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins A and E, and beta-carotene than their conventionally raised counterparts.

Pastured poultry also tends to carry a healthier balance of fats — less of the omega-6-heavy profile common in factory-raised birds. You can taste the difference, and the deep gold of a pastured egg yolk tells the same story.

For the Birds

A good life, not just a long enough one

On pasture, a chicken gets to be a chicken. Pecking, scratching, dust bathing, chasing grasshoppers — all the things the species has done forever. Birds that can act on their instincts are calmer, healthier, and under far less stress.

We keep our batches small enough that we know how every bird is doing. That's not something you can say about a barn with thirty thousand of them.

For the Ground

The pasture gets paid too

Chickens are a working part of this farm, not just a product of it. As they rotate across the pasture they eat pests, scratch up the thatch, and spread their own fertilizer as they go — and the grass comes back thicker behind them.

Rotating the birds keeps any one spot from being worn out, builds the soil, and supports more life in it. It's a small farm doing what small farms do best: leaving the land better than it found it.

And when you buy a bird from us, that's where your dollar goes — into this ground, this town, and a food system you can drive past and see for yourself.

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