With the summer grilling season almost here we're here to help you stock up and prepare with excellent pasture raised chicken.

Our fresh chicken availability is a seasonal convenience helping you to save money and get the freshest meat available anywhere. Every Tuesday, from June through August, we dress meat chickens in our small on-farm processing facility, allowing you access to the best of pasture raised chicken at a reduced price over purchasing frozen.

There's something for everyone in this savings event!

✓ Various bundle sizes so you can optimize savings to match your cut preferences and freezer space. 

✓ Exclusive White Meat Lover's Limited-Edition Bundle – Only Available in the Sale!

✓ FREE Package of NEW Grilled Chicken Tenders - Opening Day Only

✓ Deeper-than-usual Savings on some existing Bundles.

Beware of Imitations -

As always, there are mockups, and pasture raised poultry is not exempt from corner-cutting producers who take a sought-after label (like pasture raised) and monopolize on it. When in-demand items like pasture raised chicken rise to prominence, there will be farms who take the baton and run, but without checking all the boxes.

For example, producers who aim for scale but permanently house the flock on a dirt lot with zero moves to fresh ground (yes, the chickens are outdoors, but pasture??). 

Or farms who have may have chickens on pasture but feed run-of-the-mill feed from the commodity market, which of course is genetically modified and heavily chemicalized, not to mention contains soy and sub-therapeutic antibiotics (growth promoters).

Or even farms who are raising the poultry correctly and responsibly, but take them to a USDA processor for slaughter and processing, only to have them sprayed with citric acid and contaminated via mechanical processing methods (prone to tearing of offal; spilling inedible materials on the carcass). 

At Pasture to Fork, although it's not the easier or more economical path, we have chosen to source feeds carefully (from a small mom & pop mill in neighboring Berks County with whom we work very closely), we're adamant about keeping flock sizes small to mitigate stress (300 birds or less), and we do not compromise on daily moves (which ensures maximum grass/bugs intake and provides "clean linens", both of which are essential for optimal flock health absent antibiotics). At finally, we're in charge of the processing phase, eschewing citric acid (or any harsh chemicals), and carefully ensuring vacuum packaging for optimal flavor and lasting freshness.

Our immediate family is intimately involved every step of the way raising our pastured chicken. From brooding the chicks to moving and caring for them in the field to dressing and processing in our small processing facility, and packaging for the freezer, our family does it all.

The Pasture to Fork Pastured Poultry Excellence Guarantee:

✓ Humanely Harvested in our small on-farm processing facility

✓ Always raised on chemical-free pastures

✓ Small groups to mitigate stress

✓ Artificial Hormone-Free

✓ Citric Acid-Free

✓ Antibiotic-Free

✓ Chemical-Free

✓ mRNA-Free

✓ GMO-Free

✓ Soy-free

If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps I can save about 972. The difference in these photos is drastic enough that they simply speak for themselves.

If you Think Supermarket Organic is Pasture Raised, Think Again -

Don't be fooled by organic chicken in the supermarket claiming to have "pasture access". It's one of the biggest farces out there. The birds are raised in the same confinement mass-production model as conventional chicken, albeit with organic grain, slightly more room per bird, and small doors at each end of the football-field-sized barn giving the birds "access" to a small yard outside after the 4th week of their lives. The nicely mowed lawn outside is testament to the fact that the birds never venture there, nor do the producers want them to do so for fear of disease, which in itself shows the fragility of the bird's immune systems.

Worth Repeating -

“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”― Michael Pollan