Smackdown Salmon

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October 27, 2021

This week we are so excited to announce a new partnership with Smackdown Salmon! A small family run business based out of Port Townsend, their wild caught, carefully handled, sustainable Alaskan salmon is now available to order through One Straw Ranch. 

We have missed having salmon available, and we are pleased to offer Smackdown's excellent Sockeye Fillets and Smoked Canned King & Coho! To ensure delicious flavor and high quality, all the products from Smackdown are carefully processed by hand, from dressing and filleting to packaging.

One of the many reasons we enjoy what we do is that we love sharing good food with people like you who also appreciate good food. We are inspired in this endeavor by working with other folks whose calling is also centered around providing wholesome nutrition, procured and managed in a thoughtful way. 

This is one of those serendipitous moments when high quality protein is made available by really nice people, and we are so pleased to partner with them to make it available to you.

We hope you enjoy this delicious salmon -  

from their family, to our family, to yours! 

To read more about the lovely people behind this excellent salmon, find out who their boat is named after, and discover why it's called Smackdown Salmon, visit their profile here!

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