Christy

Many of my earliest childhood memories have been centered around food and family. Sitting under the big willow tree in my grandparents back yard, big bowls in our laps, snapping beans my grandmother grew in her garden. My Mom and I cleaning out the sows stalls in the barn, laughing as piglets raced playfully around our feet. Dad and I chatting as we put up fencing to rotate the cows on the pasture. I learned a respect for the land, what it can provide, and the animals that graze it.

Years later, married with kids, and living in Alaska, I took our livestock 4-H Program kids on a tour of a farm that raised pigs on pasture. Watching those pigs roam free stuck with me. I remember thinking, “That’s how pigs are supposed to live. Outdoors, on pasture where they graze, root, nap in the sun and act like happy pigs should.”

Today, my husband and I farm in Princeton, Oregon with our six kids. Our ranch is built around the same values I grew up with: family, honest work, and food you can trust because you raised it. You know exactly how that animal lived and what it ate.

The childhood I had shaped the way I farm today and why raising animals the right way - happy, healthy, naturally - matters so much to me. I want to help families reconnect with their food and feel good about what they’re feeding their bodies.

My passion is raising healthy animals, helping people support their health with local, fresh food, and building a farm where community and food bring folks back together. Our farm will be a place where families reconnect with their food—where kids can scratch a pig, pet the barn cats, and leave with muddy boots and big smiles.