Our family hasn’t been farming for generations.

We’re new to this, but as we like to say, we like good food. We also like food that was raised well, which is what prompted us to start building the skills our ancestors might have had, but that got lost in the last couple of generations.

SownWell is on 5.5 acres, nestled in former timber land on the way up towards Mount St. Helens. Slowly, we’re turning these fir-dotted hillsides into a thriving silvopasture, all the while learning, making mistakes, and eating good food in the process. Starting in 2022, we brought home our first chicks (for an eggy future), which led to ducklings (to manage the slugs), two billy goats (to vanquish the Himalayan Blackberry), and then the cascade of goslings, piglets, lambs, livestock guardian dogs, rabbits, and more just kept coming. With each new animal, we’ve occupied ourselves with the questions of how to offer this creature the best life possible, and in the case of meat livestock, the best death possible.

It seems to us that managing a small farm full-circle, from seed sowing to husbandry to slaughter and processing, has been more liberating and gratifying than eating any meal at a restaurant or picking up ingredients from a fancy market. In the last several years, we have grown amazing things for ourselves and our community, and we’d love to share those things with you.

With a focus on heritage breeds like Mangalitsa pigs, Mistral Gris meat chickens, Silver Fox rabbits, Welsh Harlequin ducks, and Golden Guernsey goats, our family runs SownWell Farm because we adore this work and life. If you’d like to taste some of the things we grow, we’ll soon be offering a limited membership (CSA style) for our farm goods. In the past, our farm goods have included preserves, chicken, eggs (duck, chicken, and goose), holiday duck and goose, apple cider vinegar, mead, sourdough bread, rabbit, pork, and lamb. We will continue to offer these products along with other specialty foods as we grow. We do not intend to become a large farm or serve hundreds of customers - on the contrary, we wish to develop relationships with each of our neighbors who choose to share in the bounty of our farm. Thank you for your commitment to well sown, well grown, and well harvested food!