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Local Beef, Chicken, Pork, and Eggs - Fresh Frozen
Our Mission
At Garden Treasures Nursery & Local Farm, we're committed to providing fresh, locally grown animal products from our local farming friends. Our mission is to keep our food dollars local, with local farmers and sustainable family farms in Western Washington. Our unique, farmer owned everyday farmers market is a great place for the farms to outlet their meat to the public, and a great place for you to shop with these farms knowing the dollars you spend go directly to the local farms you know and trust.
Meet Our Farmers
We work with a network of local farmers who share our values, check them out for yourself here on these links, providing Fresh is Frozen meat USDA harvested and packaged.
Osprey Hill Farms - Acme WA Chicken and Eggs
Chukanut Beef - Sedro Wooley / Skagit - Beef mixed breeds
Clear Valley Farms - Lakewood WA Angus Beef & Eggs
Well Fed Farms - Bow WA Pork & Bratwursts
Swan Song Farm- Arlington WA Eggs, Duck Eggs, Beauty Products
Golden Glen Creamery - Skagit Valley - Cheese
Samish Bay Cheese - Bow WA - Organic Cheese
Fresh Is Frozen
Our meat products are frozen at the butcher in individual vacuum sealed packages. This ensures the best quality, value, and selection is available in our farm store. This quality will maintain in your freezer for storage and use at a later date, or defrost quickly for use in the same day for an excellent addition to your fresh vegetables from our farm or your garden. Buying our frozen meat freezer boxes is a great way to enjoy a wide selection of cuts, and get a bulk price discount.
Egg supplies are seasonal, and available most the time from at least one supplier. Some suppliers are using mixed breeds which give blue, brown, or white colored eggs. Some Farmers just grow the brown egg chickens. The eggs we sell have thicker shells, and nutrient density, and better color than eggs found at the grocery store.
Animal Nutrition - Feed and Care
Grass Fed, Pasture Raised, Free Range, Corn Free, Soy Free, Pea Finished, Corn Finished, antibiotic free, . Adventuring into the sustainable meat sourcing can be a huge burden for the local consumer. Our farmers have quality at the highest priority, and all rely on a lifetime of experience for these high value proteins. So much information to share about the growing practices and sourcing of the animal feeds.
Beef is commonly grass fed for most the animals lifespan, and then either given small amounts of non gmo corn or pea rations to finish the animal at the last 2 months, making it put on that extra fat, caramelization in the steaks, and less "gamey" tasty some people don't prefer. Most the time the grass is sourced locally from other neighbor farmers who grow grass crops, or grown simply on the fields the cows live in. Grass growing is pretty seasonal, so in winter months sometimes feed is sourced from Eastern Washington farmers.
Our Egg Suppliers use all organic feed mixes. Most of them are using Non-GMO corn in the ration, but one farmer is trying a ration mix with no corn for the people looking for this, you are not the only one!
For our Pork rations, Farmer Eric is also a vegetable farmer, so besides grain rations, his animals are foraging in the old fields of carrots, beets, and rutabagas in winter, and getting their nose dirty. He also feeds the hogs, left over certified organic vegetables after a weekend farmers market. Talk about some pampered pigs! We love Well Fed Farms and their commitment to this difficult animal to raise right, and in a small enough herd to be ethical and sustainable.
Our chicken meat is produced using a non-gmo corn ration mix. They birds are also Farm Pasture raised, meaning they have access to all the critters and bugs commonly found on the field. The onsite Butchery setup by Osprey Hill Farms is ethically processing your birds for frozen meat sales at retail. They also are an important butchery and part of almost every other commercial local sustainable chicken farm in Whatcom, Skagit, and Snohomish County providing an invaluable USDA facility at their family farm.