Wow! Your Farm's Making Headlines

Did you catch One Straw Ranch in The Leader last week?

What a fun article in the Port Report quarterly insert – I want to make sure you have a chance to read it.

Click here to download a PDF of the Port Report.

The section about One Straw starts on page 8, complete with pictures of the chickens, cows, pigs and your farmers. 👩‍🌾

👉 The article celebrates the qualities of the food we grow – qualities you value – so I know you’ll enjoy it.

Now, when most people think Port of Port Townsend, they typically think boats and saltwater, not tractors and soil.

But this quarter the Port focused their quarterly Report on their land-based tenants. And we’re grateful to say that ever since the Port purchased the Short Farm a few years back, that includes One Straw Ranch.

I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to tell you what a blessing that partnership is to us, as your farmers, and by extension to you, our customers.

Ever since Martin and I started farming in 2015, land availability has been a big uncertainty. We have our home farm on West Valley Road (where you pick up your order on Mondays) that gives us a center base.

But raising livestock regeneratively - in a way that’s actually good for the environment rather than a detriment - requires much more pasture land than we can ever hope to own.

So we’ve had to rely on short term leases, scattered all over the county 📍. Some have been great, but oh, the stories I could tell… 😵‍💫

Luckily, we are stubborn and determined to make it work. But that uncertainty sure made it difficult to develop and expand our farm to provide real stability for your food supply. I mean, you can’t responsibly increase your cow herd, or raise more chickens, if you’re not sure where you’ll put them next season.

Now finally, as tenants of the Port, we have hope for long term stability. 🤞 Which means your favorite meat and eggs have a much better chance of being around for the long run (if we have anything to say about it).

It’s also incredibly serendipitous that the Port’s Short Farm borders our home farm. For the first time ever, all our animals are right here where we can keep a close eye on them. Whew! Not a 20-minute drive away, in someone else’s back yard, doing who knows what while we’re not watching. 😲

Seriously, what a relief. ✨ One less thing to worry about, so we can focus on raising the very best possible food for you and your family.

We’re grateful to the Port and The Leader for the lovely article. We’re glad for our new land stability and what it means long term for One Straw Ranch.

But we couldn’t do any of it without you.

So thank for making our farm, your farm.

We’re sure glad to be your farmers!

Yours truly,

Charlotte Frederickson