Page updated 4/7/2013
Hello and Welcome! We're so glad you found us!
ENROLLING NOW FOR OUR 2013 VEGETABLE CSA PROGRAM!
Kookoolan Farms is a small, pasture-based, diversified family farm. We offer chicken eggs from pasture-raised hens; humanely raised, hand-butchered chicken April through October; ducks and other specialty poultry; and custom-processed, grass-fed, pasture-raised venison, beef, lamb and pork shares. Custom-processed meats must be reserved in advance while the animal is still alive. Beef shares (in increments as small as 1/8th animal, about 80-90 pounds hanging weight, about 50-60 pounds finished meat; we also offer custom quarters and ground beef shares). Season: Year round. Generally reserving one to three months ahead of time.
Pork (Three different options, sold by the 1/2 animal, about 80-100 pounds hanging weight. Red Wattles heritage breed pastured pork; Berkshire heritage breed pastured pork; "regular" pampered pork; excellent availability year round. Click here for details.
Lamb shares (1/2 animal, about 30-33 pounds hanging weight, about 25-28 pounds finished meat), reserving now for June 2013.
For beef, pork, and lamb reservations we require a $50 deposit per share item.
Call 503-730-7535, or email kookoolan@gmail.com for details on any of these products, or to reserve.
We offer cheesemaking supplies, ingredients and equipment -- virtually anything you need to make any kind of cheese your heart desires is in stock now at Kookoolan Farms. We carry supplies from New England Cheesemaking Supply Company, New Zealand's "Mad Millie" line, and Portland's own Urban Cheesecraft cheesemaking kits; more than sixty different starter cultures including unique starters from Canada's Glengarry Creamery Supply. We believe that we are the largest, most complete shop for the home cheesemaker anywhere in the northwest and possibly anywhere in the western United States. We also offer CLASSESfor home cheesemaking, home dairying, and other topics. We offer cheesemaking classes almost every weekend!
FARMER'S MARKET: We attend only the Hillsdale Farmer's Market, www.hillsdalefarmersmarket.com, a wonderful, year-round market in southwest Portland. The market runs weekly six months of the year and twice monthly six months of the year. Kookoolan Farms attends EVERY OTHER WEEK, May through October. Our 2013 dates are May 6, 20; June 2, 16, 30; July 14, 28; August 11, 25; September 8, 20; and October 6, 20.
Please read our Sustainability Practices. Our self-service farmstore is open daily 8am-6pm, but if it's your first time to our farmstore please call first to schedule a very brief orientation, 503-730-7535