Processing and inspection

Our beef and pork is inspected, processed and packaged at Wells, Jenkins and Wells, a family-owned meat processor with decades of experience. Onsite USDA inspectors oversee the daily processing and packaging of all products for safety and compliance with government regulations.

Most of our chickens are processed under a federal exemption for small farmers that allows us to process our own chickens on our farm.  We abide by the best practices in our on-farm facility that ensure the product is safe and sanitary. 

You may find that your order contains chicken that has been processed at a USDA facility as well.  If this is the case then this means we have found a plant to work with for a particular flock of chickens instead of processing them all ourselves. 

Chicken processing is a huge hurdle for most family farms across the United States (us included).  The exemption that allows us to process on-farm is critical in getting truly pasture-raised chicken products from the farm to the consumer.  Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund is a valuable organization, of which we are members, that protects the rights of farmers and consumers to engage in direct commerce.  Consider supporting them in order to support local food across the United States.