We at Big Coulee Farms are a small farm family determined to develop a fertile, healthy land base and excellent quality “real food.”
We are looking for you – loyal, consistent, happy customers who are supportive of your ethical farmer who puts wholesome, healthy, tasty meat on your plate and in your mouth. Our purpose is to make our little corner of the world as healthy and productive as it can be using holistic management principles.
All our products do not see antibiotics or growth hormones. The beef is 100% grassfed, and receives NO supplemental grain. Only the poultry and pork are supplemented with soy-free grain. Raised naturally in the sun, from sunrise to sunset!
Participate in one of our regular hands-on sessions to see, hear, smell, and taste the health difference and impact on the environment that is the product of an intentional approach to holistic land management practices.
Learn how you can make a difference in the choices that you make in how you select the foods you eat, or how you raise and manage your own livestock and land.
Our chickens are raised outside in fresh air and sunshine in small groups. They’re placed in portable, bottomless pens on our pastures and moved to fresh forage every day. Using this “chicken mobile”, our broiler chickens have access to fresh grass and bugs while leaving their manure behind to fertilize the soil.
Our “just weaned” pigs are placed in either electric or portable fenced areas and are able to express their full pigness by grazing, running, playing or stretching out in the shade for a snooze. Pigs are given some additional grain to their naturally acquired food sources.
What We Do
Big Coulee Farms is a small farm family in an ongoing journey of holistic management practices focused on developing:
- Healthy soil with abundant microbial activity
- Lush, solar-absorbing, carbon-sequestering pastures
- Bio-diversity in vegetation and wildlife
- Contented, healthy livestock, seasonally raised in balance with nature, and moved to fresh clean forage as needed
- Excellent quality, nutrient dense and tasty products
- Consistent, growing, loyal, happy, supportive and healthy customers
- Continued education in holistic management principles for ourselves, customers and community
We Specialize In
- Pasture Raised Chicken
- Pasture Raised Turkey
- Pasture Raised Beef
- Pasture Raised Pork
- Pasture Raised Eggs
All meat products are processed in provincial inspected plants, and are frozen at the processing plant.
Pasture Raised
Truly sustainable livestock farming requires the use of a pasture-based system. Pasture-raised animals roam freely in their natural environment where they’re able to eat nutritious grasses and other plants that their bodies are adapted to digest. In addition to dramatically improving the welfare of farm animals, pasturing also helps reduce environmental damage, and yields meat, eggs and fowl that are tastier and more nutritious than foods produced on factory farms. Pasture raised livestock are above and beyond simply “organic”. Learn more about pasture raised livestock.
Big Coulee Farms uses farming practices and techniques pioneered by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms in West Virginia. Our animals all enjoy the sun, grass and are the very definition of pasture raised.
They had me after my first dozen Egg. Then I visited the farm and learned more about the family and how they raise their animals. Been eating their food ever since. It’s great quality, ethically raised food raised the way you think it’s supposed to be done and the flavor comes through in the final bite. I’ll always shop at Rusty’s store.