Producer
PK Pastures
Address: 25035 Brush Creek Rd Sweet Home, OR, 97386
Phone: 541-666-5868
Website: www.pkpastures.com
About Us
We’re first generation farmers (led by Kait Crowley) raising pastured pork and poultry near Sweet Home, Oregon on the traditional lands of the Kalapuya peoples. Established in Autumn of 2018, we’re just getting started renovating our pasture to nutrient-dense forage for our livestock. Harnessing pig power, we’re reseeding with a more diverse perennial mix. It’s our goal to bring you the tastiest, most ethical meat we can that’s good for people, critters, and the land we all share. We are proud to be certified Animal Welfare Approved and members of the Oregon Pasture Network. We're currently seeking organic certification for our meat, stay tuned!
Practices
Our animals rotate seasonally through our certified organic pasture and heritage oak stand. They also organic feed (also corn-free, soy-free and non-GMO) made from PNW grains and peas and organic cull crops from our open-pollinated seed company neighbors. Our hogs are finished on apples, pears, and pomace from organic and biodynamic orchards. We've taken care to select hearty breeds that thrive in our region and produce full-flavored meat you'll be proud to serve at your table.
We work with our pigs to maintain high quality grazing fodder for all our livestock. It’s our strong belief that pigs should be allowed to be pigs! And that means rooting. Our job as conscientious farmers is to create systems that apply their natural talents in beneficial ways. We practice rotational pasture management, and allow our pigs to work the soil for us in preparation for perennial forage species like orchard grass and clovers. Once the crop is established, the pigs will be back to hog it down. We are a farrow-to-finish operation, and raise our own frisky piglets right here on the farm.
Our chickens are Freedom Rangers- a specialty meat bird adapted to life on pasture. Freedom Rangers lead more active lives than the chickens most of us are familiar with (yup, even the ones with ‘organic’ and ‘free range’ labels), and you’ll notice a difference. They have proportionally more dark leg and thigh meat. More exercise means more flavor. Freedom Rangers are fully feathered, and less susceptible to heat or cold stress. We let them live up to their name and free-range during daylight hours, then overnight in chicken tractors that we move daily. We practice a leader-follower system, turning the chickens out on ground our larger animals have already passed through to break up their manure. This disrupts the life cycles of parasitic organisms and diseases for each species of livestock and contributes to pasture and animal health- much like crop rotations on organic vegetable farms.
Starting in July of 2020, we have added a 3% ‘Real Tax’ to all sales transactions. Modeled after the ‘Real Rent’ initiative of the Duwamish, as well as calls for reparations, we are collecting this revenue for local BIPOC-led organizations that are actively engaged in the struggle for human dignity and flourishing. We send an equal portion of this money to the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition, Many Nations Longhouse, and Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), quarterly.
In addition to upholding responsible land stewardship practices, we are committed to upholding principles of social equity and food justice. We strive to pay our employees competitive wages, and value farm labor as dignified and skilled work. Most of our certified Animal Welfare Approved, pasture-raised meats are sold direct to eaters through our 'Pay-What-You-Can' CSA farmshare program. We use a Community Pricing structure and encourage those who have the means to pitch in a little more to help those who have need access our ethically and organically raised proteins.
We work with our pigs to maintain high quality grazing fodder for all our livestock. It’s our strong belief that pigs should be allowed to be pigs! And that means rooting. Our job as conscientious farmers is to create systems that apply their natural talents in beneficial ways. We practice rotational pasture management, and allow our pigs to work the soil for us in preparation for perennial forage species like orchard grass and clovers. Once the crop is established, the pigs will be back to hog it down. We are a farrow-to-finish operation, and raise our own frisky piglets right here on the farm.
Our chickens are Freedom Rangers- a specialty meat bird adapted to life on pasture. Freedom Rangers lead more active lives than the chickens most of us are familiar with (yup, even the ones with ‘organic’ and ‘free range’ labels), and you’ll notice a difference. They have proportionally more dark leg and thigh meat. More exercise means more flavor. Freedom Rangers are fully feathered, and less susceptible to heat or cold stress. We let them live up to their name and free-range during daylight hours, then overnight in chicken tractors that we move daily. We practice a leader-follower system, turning the chickens out on ground our larger animals have already passed through to break up their manure. This disrupts the life cycles of parasitic organisms and diseases for each species of livestock and contributes to pasture and animal health- much like crop rotations on organic vegetable farms.
Starting in July of 2020, we have added a 3% ‘Real Tax’ to all sales transactions. Modeled after the ‘Real Rent’ initiative of the Duwamish, as well as calls for reparations, we are collecting this revenue for local BIPOC-led organizations that are actively engaged in the struggle for human dignity and flourishing. We send an equal portion of this money to the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition, Many Nations Longhouse, and Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), quarterly.
In addition to upholding responsible land stewardship practices, we are committed to upholding principles of social equity and food justice. We strive to pay our employees competitive wages, and value farm labor as dignified and skilled work. Most of our certified Animal Welfare Approved, pasture-raised meats are sold direct to eaters through our 'Pay-What-You-Can' CSA farmshare program. We use a Community Pricing structure and encourage those who have the means to pitch in a little more to help those who have need access our ethically and organically raised proteins.