Buying Clubs

You can now enjoy clean pasture-based meat and poultry directly from the farmer.

No membership fee — Delivered close to you

Are these your values?:

• Knowing your food and your farmer
• Patronizing local economies
• Eating nutritiously
• Hormone and drug free food
• Humane animal husbandry
• Environment-enhancing food

What is a Buying Club?

It is a group of educated food buyers dedicated to doing something positive with their food dollar for their environment, health, and family. It is a way for metropolitan food buyers to have a relationship with the farmer and their food.

How does it work?

To join one of our buying clubs, you simply email or call us and request to be put on our buying club patron list. We will give you the location of the delivery point nearest you. About a week prior to delivery, we send out an email notice indicating what we have available and the price, along with delivery location and date/time. You are free to order as much or little as you wish. There is no minimum order. To order, simply reply to the email notice we send out and specify what you want to order along with quantity (and size where appropriate). Then meet us at the specified delivery location and time with cash or check book (preferred) in hand. Please note that we can not take credit or debit cards. We plan to deliver about once a month. We encourage you to let us know how we can better serve you. Also, if you are disappointed in anything you order, please let us know.

What is the membership fee?

Nothing. A nominal per pound delivery charge covers the transportation cost for your convenience. Active status requires a current email address and twice yearly purchases.

A word about our prices. We get a wide range of comments about our prices from how can you sell so cheap to how come you are so expensive. It is largely a matter of where you are used to buying your food. If you buy mostly from COSTCO or Safeway, our prices will seem expensive. If you buy from the natural/organic food stores, our prices will seem reasonable. We sell a premium product for people who appreciate superior food—meat that is nutritious, tender, tasty, and safe—and are willing to pay for it. We are full time farmers, with no other source of income, so we need to earn an income that will keep us going. This is our eighth year in operation, and last year was the first year we showed a profit, so it has been a slow journey into the world of profitability.

While on the subject of prices, at times we are able to offer two broiler options: one fed organic feed and the other conventional feed. The only difference is the organic feed uses certified organic grains, and costs almost twice as much as the conventional feed, which is reflected in the price of the organic broiler (which is about 75% more). We raise 10% of our broilers on organic feed, largely in response to customers who have asked for this and are willing to pay for it. We are often asked how this affects the end product. I often answer with this analogy. Most people would agree that a Mercedes is a better auto than a Ford. If I could afford it, I would probably buy a Mercedes, because I appreciate having the best. But I drive a Ford because that is what I can afford, and it is certainly adequate. You will not notice any difference in taste or tenderness between the organic and conventional broilers. The difference comes in the hotly debated topic of food safety—the organic feed does not contain chemical residues and is grown with non-GMO grains. So, if your budget can afford the organic broilers, buy those, if not, you will not be disappointed with the conventional broilers and you will be getting a vastly superior product than the confinement offerings sold in the supermarkets.

What about no shows: We do not send out reminder notices to those who have placed an order with us. Invariably, there are one or two people who forget to pick up their order. If you provide us, when you order, with a telephone number where you can be reached during the delivery time, we will attempt to contact you about 15 minutes prior to the end of the delivery, if you have not yet shown up, as a reminder.

Delivery Locations:

Beaverton • N Portland • SE Portland • Salem

Don’t see a delivery location near you?

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Current Price List