You Lucky Plucker!

Andrew Jones
Feb 22, 2024
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Hi, and thank you for being a plucker! This is a hidden page on my Substack meant to introduce you to two local farms and homesteads who process chickens and turkeys for local pickup. Below you will find two options of videos, a written introduction further down for those who enjoy a short read instead of a video, and the order form HERE with instructions to reserve your chicken.

  • The first option below is an elevator pitch about our poultry.

  • The second option is over three minutes long and you will get a much more detailed introduction to your local homestead:

    —More Down Here Plucker!—

Welcome to the written segment, and good on you for educating yourself on local homesteads and clean food! I am not that much of a hippy, really, I just hate the prices in grocery stores and I know how the chickens we eat at restaurants and from stores are raised. They are housed in cramped conditions inside long sheds that are filled with pollen and poo dust. They are then herded into small crates, trucked off down south to a place that smells like death, and slaughtered while their bodies are experiencing the most stress they have ever been in. Lastly, their bodies and meat are treated with bleach and radiation because the conditions are disgusting and it is what the USDA views as the best way to sterilize your “food”. Yum Yum!

I wake up early every morning to manage and take care of my chickens before heading off to my eight-to-five day job. Their lives are short comparatively, and while they are here I want them to have full access to green grass, blue sky, and safety. I believe that a good and happy chicken produces a far better end product, and really they deserve as much happiness as I can give them…cause I’m gonna eat ‘em.

I also value my health and community more than the pocket book of some far away board member for Tyson Chicken, Petaluma Poultry, or Foster Farms. Every chicken I can raise humanely and then proceed to successfully sell takes a small percentage out of their pockets, and I relish that feeling.

We love California and do not believe the answer to happier lives is in another state. We believe what we raise is far better and healthier than our corporate alternatives, and we want nothing more than to develop a community of people who buy locally what they would buy anyway at a grocery store. If you are not interested, we ask that you pass the feather onto someone else that you might know.