Our Products
Pasture Raised Poultry
We raise Cornish-Rock crossed broiler chickens, various breeds of laying hens, and turkeys including the heritage breeds Bourbon Red, Blue Slate and Standard Bronze as well as the non-heritage Broad Breasted Bronze. Our birds are raised in small batches and moved daily to fresh, clean pasture.
Pasture Raised Chicken Eggs
Our hens are free to roam the pasture during the day and are provided with shelter for the night inside their own eggmobile. The hens feel secure laying their eggs in the nesting boxes which are housed within their eggmobile. The eggmobile follows the cattle through their daily pasture rotations, allowing the hens to benefit from all of the bugs that seem to appear behind cattle, and benefiting the cattle by sanitizing the pasture for the next rotation. Our laying hens are fed high quality grains from our local mill.
Grass Fed and Grass Finished Beef
Our cows are rotated to fresh grass every few days and fed supplemental grass hay during the winter months when grass is dormant here in the Willamette Valley.
Heritage Pork
Our American Guinea Hogs are a heritage breed that is recovering from near extinction and are listed on Slow Food's Ark of Taste. At Full of Life Farm, they begin their lives eating more grain than grass. But gradually they eat more and more grass until by about 6 months, they are eating mostly grass. And they will actually gain weight and can even get too fat on a diet of good grass and clover.
Free-Ranging Goat
Our goats browse on a variety of grasses, shrubs, and vines (mostly blackberries).
Range Hens
We keep layers for two production years. At that point, they don't lay enough eggs to be economical so we "retire" them. Although they are tougher than the young broilers, the taste is superior and the broth is exquisite. Range hens must be slow cooked in order to be tender.