Glassen Farms

25 Chickens available for pickup at your Convenience

Chicken CSA

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Individual Birds

Buy just one chicken at a time. Pre-purchase and pick up on a semi-monthly pickup day and meet CSA members and Farmer Ben. Also, find a market date on the calendar to come buy individual birds at the farmers market.

Three Pack of Birds

Buy three chickens at a time to save a couple bucks and serve a party or put them in your home freezer. These frozen and shrink wrapped chicken will keep many months in your regular freezer at about -18 degrees Celsius.

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Features Overview

 
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Healthy & Tasty

The superior health benefits of chickens who foraged on natural supplements, soaked up the sun and exercised moving along the pasture each day are going to make for nutrient rich mean. The amazing taste and texture cooked is just bonus.

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Environmentally friendly

Voting with dollars spent at a local regenerative farm is like buying carbon credits with your meal. Each dollar is going to further development in technology to use holistic management that converts fallow fields to lush carbon sinks feeding on Carbon Dioxide emissions in the air.

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Humane Animal treatment

Each animal is given purpose in life by converting Non-GMO diets into pasture fertilizer. They are given a fresh patch of grass every day on pasture to ensure they spend the majority of their days expressing their natural instincts as foragers. For their final one bad day, the are harvested by hand, never by machine.


Healthy Food

This is nutrient dense food for you to eat. Comparing this to traditional poultry, our birds soak up vitamin D from being in the sun and eating solar charged grasses. Bio-accumulation is the compounding effect of chickens eating nutrient rich bugs, who eat nutrient rich organism who eat nutrient rich micro-organisms all naturally occurring in the soils. You are what you eat and what you eat is what it eats and fresh is best.

Ethical

Birds live in a natural size flock of 75 allowing each bird’s health to be observed. They are moved to fresh grass at least once every day. They get fresh air, water and sun light. The chickens’ health is boosted by the nutrients available by foraging bugs, seeds and foliage. Birds are taken carefully to a small federally inspected facility for one bad day spent in the hands of chicken lovers, no kill machines.

Regenerating the Land

Pasture Poultry moves flocks of birds across a field to evenly spread the load, wear and fertilization evenly. Regenerative Agriculture is animal management and farming practices that improve biodiversity, soil health, and productivity of the land by using holistic management that focuses on never exceeding the capacity for the land.

Honest & Transparent

I am Ben Glassen, a young farmer here in Nanaimo, BC. The business number is my personal cell phone and I read every email. I encourage you to contact me to ask questions if you are interested in cooking chickens, learning about regenerative farming, coming to see my operation or have questions about the business model.