KOOKOOLAN FARMS - 15713 HWY 47 - YAMHILL, OR  97148 - (503)730.7535 - kookoolan@gmail.com

Shop at Our Farmstore, open daily 8am - 6pm, please call for an appointment for your first visit only

Look for us at the Hillsdale Farmer's Market in southwest Portland (Burlingame / Multnomah Village area), LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH, April through November 2010.  This market runs year-round; weekly from May through October; twice a month November through April.  Sundays 10AM to 4PM.  However, Kookoolan Farms will be at this market only the last Sunday of each month in 2009.  Our booth is located at the far south end of the market -- look for our truck! For dates, times, location, directions, and profiles of the other great farmer-vendors at the market, please visit www.hillsdalefarmersmarket.com.   And yes, we ship anywhere in Oregon for the cost of product + actual shipping by UPS + $25 handling fee for time and materials to prepare and ship the package.  In 2010 our farmer's market dates are April 25; May 30; June 27; July 25; August 29; September 26; October 31; November 21.

During 2010, our chicken is on the menu at the Intel Cafe at the Ronler Acres and Jones Farm campuses, at Bijou Cafe in downtown Portland, and at Ned Ludd, Biwa and Bar Avignon.

Our fresh butchered chickens are available at the meat counter at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery in Gaston.

            HEIRLOOM CHICKEN.  Our premium, signature, specialty product is heirloom-breed Le Poulet chickens, the same breeds grown under the French “Label Rouge” program.  These are grown on pasture in our own orchard, where they eat pasture grass, bugs, dropped fruits, vegetable garden scraps, and custom-milled, no-corn, no-soy, no GMO feed produced locally in Dayton, Oregon, from crops grown within 20 miles.  These chickens are allowed to grow to full sexual maturity, processed at 16 weeks old, whole carcass only, $6/lb.  These birds have more size variability; finished birds weigh between 3 and 9 pounds.  We are striving to get our chick production, both for our heirloom meat and heirloom egg breeds, off the factory farm grid and onto our own farm.  In 2010 we plan to hatch about half our own chicks, and buy only half.  We use “straight-run” or “unsexed” chicks, meaning that no chicks of the “wrong gender” are sent to the gas chamber.  These are available fresh at the Hillsdale Farmer’s Market and at our farmstore in Yamhill July 25, August 29, and September 26, 2010.

            REGULAR CHICKEN.  We also produce humanely raised, chemical- and medication-free, “regular” Cornish Cross breed chickens, barn-raised in clean, spacious, well-ventilated quarters.  We use “straight-run” or “unsexed” chicks, meaning that no chicks of the “wrong gender” are sent to the gas chamber.   Our standard-product chickens are raised in small social groups of 65 birds per pen, raised indoors on pine shavings, and are fed no medications, hormones, or antibiotics of any kind.  They eat locally-milled grains and are allowed to grow to nine weeks, almost twice the life span of grocery store chickens, which are generally slaughtered at 45 days of age.  These older chickens have more exercise due to more personal space for each bird, have more muscle development due to their more mature age and more exercise, and a lot more flavor!  Our chickens are gently and humanely handled at harvest time, and butchered cleanly, respectfully, and with consciousness to minimize each bird's suffering.  The evidence of gentle harvesting is right there in the finished carcass:  in 2009, 97% of our chickens were sold as first-quality, whole-carcass broilers:  not a bruise, scratch, or broken bone on them.  Their low stress results in better-flavored more tender meat as well.  Poultry is in season in Oregon during the warm, dry months:  we offer chicken only April through October each year.  Whole birds are $4.25 per pound; we also offer bone-in breasts; hindquarters; wings; livers; hearts; feet; and necks.  These are available fresh at our farmstore in Yamhill twice a month; in 2010 the dates are April 14 and 25; May 19 and 30; June 16 and 27; July 14 and 25; August 18 and 29; September 15 and 26; October 13 and 31.  We bring these freshly-butchered chickens to the Hillsdale Farmer’s market only the LAST SUNDAY of each month:  April 25; May 30; June 27; July 25; August 29; September 26; and October 31.  Frozen chickens typically sell out by mid-November and you must stock up to have chickens in your kitchen until the following April.

            OTHER POULTRY.  We have several tiny, sustainable, grass-based partner farms which raise ducks, guinea hens, rabbits, geese, and pheasants, in small batches, offered just a few times a year.  These birds are all processed here on our own farm.

                     

Chicken Eggs from outdoor-raised hens, an assortment of shell colors from Auracauna, Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn, and other hen breeds)  ...  $6.00/dozen for large eggs.  Small eggs are $4 per dozen.  Jumbo eggs (many have double yolks) $3.50 per half dozen.  We occasionally have exotic eggs:  duck eggs $3.50 per half dozen, turkey eggs $3.50 per half dozen, goose eggs 3 for $3.

"RED BOURBON" Heritage Breed Turkeys.  We raise only one batch of turkeys each year, and these are available FRESH the weekend before Thanksgiving; you may freeze for Christmas or later winter use.  We always sell out; for 2010 we predict we'll sell out around July 1st.  In 2010 we will raise 200 turkeys -- as of May 20, we have only 60 left for 2010.  Hens (the girls) run between 8-11 pounds and serve 8 people.  Toms (the boys) run between 16-20 pounds and serve 15 people.  There is no difference in flavor or texture, it's just how much meat you want.  $6 per pound, whole carcass only.  $25 deposit required.

100% pasture-raised beef available by 1/8th-carcass shares (about 50-60 pounds finished meat per share), offered at $4.50 per pound hanging weight, equivalent to approximately $7 per pound finished weight.  Click here to read Oregon's laws on custom meat shares.  $25 deposit required.

100% Grass-fed lamb, available by 1/2-carcass shares (about 20-25 pounds finished meat per share), offered at $7.50 per pound hanging weight, equivalent to approximately $8 per pound finished weight.  $25 deposit required.

Pork, available by the 1/2 carcass share (about 75 pounds of finished meat), offered at $4 per pound hanging weight.  We have three left for August 2010, and then next availability is January 2011.  $25 deposit required.

Vegetable CSA for farm pick-up or delivery to Intel Ronler Acres campus.  Pick-ups are also possible through several neighborhood buying clubs throughout Portland; email us with your street address to see if there's a buying club in your neighborhood.  SOLD OUT FOR 2010.

Tree fruits, specializing in Persian/Iranian fruits including pomegranate, mulberry, sour cherry, and apple, plus many heirloom varieties of more familiar fruits, first harvest expected in 2011.

Cheesemaking Supplies .  See www.cheesemaking.com for the full line of supplies from the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company..  Cultures, rennets, cheesecloth, wax, thermometers, curd-cutting knives, wrapping papers, enzymes, you name it, they're all here.  To our knowledge, we are the only cheesemaking supply shop anywhere in the Portland metropolitan area or anywhere in northwest Oregon.  Local cheesemakers can take classes here at the farm twice a month, for our current schedule see our Classes and Events.  For write-ups about our classes, see blogs by local food writers Liz Crain and Kathleen Bauer.

         


Mead.  Mead is an ancient category of wine made from fermented honey.  It can be dry or sweet, sparkling or still, flavored with fruits or herbs or spices or straight up, strongly or weakly alcoholic, oaked or not.  We received our full winery license on November 13 2009!  Our first commercial release in winter 2010!