O’Kelly Family Farms
O’Kelly Family Farms currently consists of the Kelly Family of Lassen County. We are a family of believers, who also believe that food is medicine and what we eat really matters. We raise our food on our small family farm (we are only 4.5 acres) with the love and care we, your family and the animals we produce deserve. We are lovers of our livestock and animal husbandry and you can actually taste the difference. We started our farm as a beloved hobby but always with future customers in mind. Now, we face a turning point where we are expanding our little farm and preparing to offer our home raised foods to other families who may not have the ability to. We started this journey to feed our family real, clean and just plain better food. Healing ourselves of the ailments we had acquired was a big motivation to our farming practices being as natural as we can sustain. After 5 years in the Marine Corps for Jim, several poor medical diagnoses for Mallorie, and ear infections, colds, allergies and poor immune systems in the kids, we wanted to find a better way to eat. Farming became our healing, as cooking became our delight. We love the opportunity to raise healthy foods and we relish in the optimism of sharing it with your family too. Just know, every chick, every pig, goat, duck, sheep and guard dog has been well treated, as animals deserve. We thank them for their cooperation and their sustenance, both for our family and for yours. We would like to remain open and transparent, we love visitors, so we may become a trusted farm to our customers and our community. We do not use hormones, GMOs, antibiotics, vaccines, soy, or artificial insemination. We allow our animals the space needed for sanitation and security, lowering their stress is a huge priority for us as their stewards. We currently raise our family dogs turned livestock guardians, Pasture Raised Cornish Cross Chickens, some very happy Barred Rock Egg Hens, Free Range Muscovy Ducks, Free Range Khaki Campbell Egg Ducks, Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats, some very cute Sheep, Berkshire Hogs and a variety of fruits and vegetables. We have learned, over a decade and a half of research and trials, that a variety of animals makes for a cleaner environment. We have learned that moving our livestock into new pastures accordingly, lowers the need for antibiotics and vaccines to nearly non existence, and we personally do not use them on our livestock. We know that chickens love to follow behind other animals for cleaning and new, tender grasses to forage and that pigs will stomp out all vegetation if left in one space for too long. We have also learned that there is almost nothing cuter, except maybe our one year old, than a baby goat jumping onto an unsuspecting 11 year old’s back, and that piglets eating their feed make the cutest smacking noises. Our love for our farm shows in our food and we can’t wait to share it with your family.
Join our waitlist to be the first to be served our farm fresh, pastured chickens this Spring ‘23.