Faerie Road Farm raises small and medium frame heritage sheep breeds that are hardy, tasty and have beautiful wool. This smaller sized animal offers less compaction on the land. The breeds we raise include Cotswold, Navajo Churro, Gotland & Blue Faced Leicester(BFL), Corriedale and Coopsworth. We love colored sheep and horned sheep too. Our lambs are mostly cross bred, to produce beautiful pelts for tanning.
Recognizing that our carnivorous predators are an important link in natural food chains, we protect our sheep with livestock guardian dogs. This deters the natural predators without harming them. The dogs bark and alert to any perceived intrusion, giving a warning and creating a bubble of safety around the stock.
Commericial lamb that you get at the grocery store comes from large breed sheep that are 12 – 14 months at slaughter. These lambs often spend the last 2 months of their life on a feed lot gaining weight and carcass fat on corn or grain feeds. A commercial lamb may weigh 120+ lbs under this management system.
Faerie Road Farm aims to produce lambs for consumption that are 6- 9 months old. They are raised on a rotational pasture system, with many flowering forage plants for bees and other insect life. Our program makes the most of the bio-regional seasonal cycles. We lamb in January and February, so that our lambs are ready to go out to pasture when the grass starts growing. We harvest late Summer and Fall, when the pastures go dormant. This aligns us with nature and also makes good financial sense.
Since we raise small and medium framed sheep on grass, our goal is for our lambs to weigh 35-65 pounds when hanging at the butcher (also called carcass weight). Without grain feeds our pasture raised lamb has more muscle meat and less fat and the fat is healthier from exercised pasture sheep. Pasture raised lamb will be very different than the consumer might be used to from a grocery store. Cuts like chops will be smaller, but more flavorful and nutritional. By request we include organ meats as well. To understand more about the farm to consumer process read our farm to table information sheet
Each year we have a limited number of beautiful tasty lambs available direct to you, the consumer. We generally take deposits in May or June for delivery late summer or fall. We sell whole lambs only, if you want a smaller share, we suggest splitting a lamb with a friend or friends, we guarantee you in the end you’ll wish you had kept the whole lamb for yourself!! Lamb is available to customers in Southern Oregon, The San Francisco Bay Area (pick up in Oakland), Eugene and Portland. If you are interested in being on the list for lamb, please use our contact form to let us know.
In addition to delicious quality meat, we also produce once-in-a-lifetime pelts from our lambs. Learn more about this process and check out the gorgeous results here
REVIEWS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS
About your amazing lamb! I had to restrain myself from gobbling down the lamb I got from you inside of one month. The meat was everything I was yearning for. It was fine grained, dense, and delicately speckled with fat making it juicy and tender. The lamb had a robust, succulent, meaty flavor that was delicious completely plain. It could also stand up beautifully to strong spice blends like rosemary/garlic/balsamic vinegar or cumin/coriander/chili pepper/black pepper/lemon, or tandoori seasoning… lamb as tasty as yours is hard to come by. Comparing your lamb to the greasy, stringy, sweaty yet bland tasting lamb I bought from Whole Foods, or the utterly tasteless “New Zealand lamb” from Costco, I wouldn’t even know they’re the same animal.”
“Truly amazing flavor!. It felt so nourishing to eat this lamb through my last months of pregnancy”
“Outstanding!”
“Yummy!”
