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December 13, 2014 by Patty Kloft

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As we approach winter, we’ve been getting our cu

As we approach winter, we’ve been getting our customer online ordering ready so you can easily stay stocked with your favorite local, grass-fed meat.

🐂 Use our new Google form for Beaverton Farmers Market pre-orders and weekly home delivery (link in bio)

🐑 Beaverton Farmers Market pre-orders accepted each week until the last market (Nov 21); any order no matter how small is welcome; fill out form by Fridays at noon

🐐 Home delivery is available weekly to Portland, Beaverton, Tigard, Mt. Angel & Salem ALL YEAR, including December and January when the Beaverton market is closed; $75 minimum order; free delivery

🐖 We are starting with a simple Google form and will move to a fuller online ordering option. We are still testing our form and adding pictures, so you can help by giving us feedback.

Did you know that we freeze our products right away so that no days of shelf life are wasted? And we value using the whole animal, which is why we offer organ meats and cuts you may not find other places. Availability changes week to week.

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS: Photos show a small sampling of our grass-fed meat products packaged with our bright farm label and sitting on a white tablecloth.
Image 1: Beef Boneless Chuck Roast
Image 2: Applewood Smoked Uncured Bacon
Image 3: Spicy Italian Pork Sausage Links
Image 4: Beef Cheeks
Image 5: Beef Tri-Tip Steak

#eatlocalgrown #meatraisedright #grassfedbeef #grassfedgrassfinished #grassfedpork #heritagepork #grassfedlamb #grassfedgrassfinishedlamb #familyfarm #beavertoneats #pdxeats #willamettevalley #mtangel #farmtofork #farmtotable

We have a BRAND NEW online order form we are testi

EXCITING NEWS! After a soft arrival at the @beaver

EXCITING NEWS! After a soft arrival at the @beavertonmarket Market last Saturday, our goat meat is officially available for purchase this weekend! Our goat is sustainably raised in Mt. Angel on our farm and at the grazing grounds of the Mount Angel Abbey & Seminary. Is goat curry in your future? Or perhaps goat stew? We have both bone-in and boneless goat cut for curry/stew. As you know, we've been working on this project for over a year and we are excited to finally be bringing goat to the market alongside our normal offerings! #goatmeat #willamettevalley #familyfarm

It’s Patty’s birthday on Saturday. She doesn’t want to make a big deal about it. It’s been a tough year. “Date nights” involve traveling down to Stanford for MRIs and blood tests. The farm would not run without Patty. She manages the packing plant, fills orders, handles the books, and now ‘teaches’ elementary school... you name it, she does it! If you would like to make a donation to the Children’s Organ Transplant Association in honor of John’s Journey, that’s really the only gift Patty would like. We will also have coin collection boxes at the Beaverton Farmers Market this weekend. Message us if you would like one for your organization. Thank you all for your amazing support this year. We have seen our customers rally around local food and our family. ➡️Also, family medical update on John’s Children’s Organ Transplant Association blog. Link in bio. 💕💕💕 @cota_org #COTAhope

Throwback Thursday to when Uncle Dan and Aunt Lisa

Throwback Thursday to when Uncle Dan and Aunt Lisa came to visit us at the Beaverton Farmers Market this summer. This was a special treat because they brought John a Stanford backpack for his trips down to Palo Alto that he will need leading up to, during, and after his kidney surgery. Dan and Mike have been friends since they were both at Oregon State teaching... scuba diving. That’s not a joke. :0) A lot of our long-time customers know Dan, and you’ll get to see him this weekend, because he is pinch hitting and helping us at the market booth. Pre-orders are due at noon on Friday. 🤗 #familyfarm #nwkidneykids #beavertonfarmersmarket #farmtotable #willamettevalley

Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how your favori

Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how your favorite #grassfedgrassfinishedmeat gets from the farm to you. This is Patty at the vacuum sealer machine in our USDA-inspected packing plant on the farm. She's working with lamb loin chops. We vacuum seal, label, and freeze our meat right after it is hand cut so that no shelf life is lost. That ensures that you get the freshest meat possible. Our lamb is raised by two Willamette Valley family farms that care for their animals to the same high-quality standards we do.

We're so grateful to our customers for your commitment to making the local food system robust by knowing where your food comes from and supporting local producers. Special shout out to the groceries, restaurants, and institutions that carry #LonelyLaneFarms meat! 💕 @Alberta_coop @cherrysprout @lifesource_foods @firstaltcoop @oceananaturalfoods @kivagrocery @hodaspdx @dinedelalma @benedictinebrewery @bonappetitreedcollege @bonappetitgfu @mountangelabbey @bonappetit_wu @nourished.beginnings @chef_lieggi @beavertonmarket 💕

#eatlocal #buylocal #familyfarm #WillametteValley #GrassFedMeat #GrassFedGrassFinishedLamb #MeatRaisedRight #farmtotable

Mike and his dad Joe have been doing a lot of farm

Mike and his dad Joe have been doing a lot of farming the past two months to get us ready for the late fall and winter in the #WillametteValley. Here is Mike last month helping his dad unload hay that we grew. If you don’t see Mike at the Beaverton Market on an upcoming Saturday, it’s because he’s probably at home farming to make sure we are all set. #WinterIsComing #FamilyFarm #grassfedmeat #grassfedgrassfinished

Last week was Mike and my anniversary--to celebrat

Last week was Mike and my anniversary--to celebrate, we went down to Stanford for Mike to get an MRI! Trips away from the farm take lots of preparation at the processing facility and on the farming side. Our last anniversary trip was to look at a combine in Ontario, Oregon. The silver lining last week was some lovely weather in California.

The MRI was part of Mike’s pre-screening to be John’s kidney donor. So far, everything looks good and we think Mike has just one more round of tests.

To keep you all updated with our kidney disease + donation journey, we are so grateful to be able to share our Children’s Organ Transplant Association website: John’s Journey (link in bio). We’ll still let you know what’s happening on our Instagram and Facebook, but more detailed information, updates, and a donation link can all be found on the John’s Journey page.

Image descriptions: 1 - Mike and I in front of the Farmer’s Market booth on Saturday after Mike surprised me with a big, beautiful bouquet of flowers for our anniversary. We’re both wearing masks and I’m holding the bouquet. 2 - All three of us walking side by side away from the camera on the farm at sunset.

A throwback to spring—our cows are out on pastur

A throwback to spring—our cows are out on pasture all year long, and they never get any hard grains. @beavertonmarket pre-orders are due by Friday at noon ✏️ Email patty@lonelylanefarms.com. #grassfed #grassfinished #familyfarm #eatlocal #willamettevalley

Bene says it’s a great day to get in your pre-or

Bene says it’s a great day to get in your pre-orders for the @beavertonmarket! If you have a recipe in mind or a cut of meat you are planning on grilling, and you want to be sure we aren’t out by the time you arrive, just email Patty your order and we will set it aside for you at the market in our coolers (patty@lonelylanefarms.com). Also, can you believe how big our “puppy” is getting!? She is getting to be a better and better herd protector each day! #anatolianshepherd #willamettevalley #familyfarm #meatraisedright

Thank you to the Northwest Kidney Kids for organiz

Thank you to the Northwest Kidney Kids for organizing a virtual #StrutYourKidney. Mike, John and I along with my (Patty's) parents hiked our fun run mile around our goat pasture. John is virtually waving hello to the other kidney kids. Our family is learning more about this wonderful Northwest nonprofit that helps children with kidney disease and their families. #NWKidneyKids #proudtosupport #pasturewalk @nwkidneykids

Today would be the start of one of our favorite ti

Today would be the start of one of our favorite times of year: Mt. Angel Oktoberfest! Even virtual Oktoberfest has been postponed a few weeks because of wildfires and smoke. But we’ve ordered our yummy O-fest box and look forward to participating virtually in October. All the proceeds will go directly to local nonprofits. Oktoberfest is a community celebration in Mt. Angel and the profits always go directly back into the community. We will miss seeing you all, but are so glad we can still celebrate virtually. And we are still making sausages for Oktoberfest boxes this year. #mtangel #oktoberfest #mtangeloktoberfest @oktoberfest_mtangel.

Posted @withregram • @oktoberfest_mtangel @joevfox12 paid Mt Angel Oktoberfest a visit this morning to help us get the word out about Oktoberfest 2020 - Zuhaus edition!

Today would had been the start of the 55th Mt Angel Oktoberfest but due to Covid-19 we weren’t able to function as normal....so we went virtual!

Then wildfires pushed back our virtual festival dates. Can someone say 2020!?

But, we have options! Be sure to visit our store and place your orders before September 30th (T-shirt orders placed before the 23rd!) to get your virtual entertainment link, beer, sausage, beverages and souvenirs & more!

Oktoberfest.org/store

Pickup will be Oktober 1, 2, and 3, 2020 at Mt Angel Festhalle.

Prost!

#kptv #mtangeloktoberfest #mtangeloregon #covid_19 #stayhome #virtual #wildfires

We are looking for two volunteers! As you know, we

We are looking for two volunteers! As you know, we found out this year that our seven-year-old John has stage-four kidney disease and needs a kidney transplant. We have been incredibly lucky to be invited to work with the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA - @cota_org) for kidney transplant fundraising. There are many immediate and ongoing costs associated with organ transplant that are not covered by insurance, and COTA specializes in working with transplant families with needs like ours.

COTA has asked us to assemble our volunteer team. They try to make sure that the parents can focus on the logistics of travel (for us, our appointments are in California at Stanford) and coordinating the support before, during, and after the surgeries. We will be planning for two near-term surgeries (one for John and one for the donor--both of us are a match, so that's good) and looking toward additional surgeries in the future.

We are so grateful for your support and we are looking for a volunteer in Mt. Angel and a volunteer in the Beaverton/Portland area to help coordinate the fundraising efforts. COTA provides training and resources. The ideal people will have a little extra time, be looking for a small and meaningful project, and enjoy working in a team and in the community. Our friend Evelyn will be part of the team handling the COTA website and communications updates as we move forward in our journey.

Email patty@lonelylanefarms.com with your thoughts or interest. We'll be so happy to hear from you.

These photos don’t really go with a post about h

These photos don’t really go with a post about home delivery... but if you were wondering how close our fields were to catching fire, here are some pictures of ash we found in the field while we were picking up straw Monday. Mike put his hand next to one to give it scale. Glad these were cool or at least didn't light the field when they dropped.

This smoky week is a good one to put in a grass-fed meat order for home delivery so you don’t have to go out. Deliveries are all happening on Thursday this week. Home delivery is free with a $75 minimum order, and is available in the Portland area west to Beaverton, all of Portland, and far south. Get in your orders by the end of the day today (Tuesday). Click on link in bio for order form. Email Patty with questions: patty@lonelylanefarms.com.

#grassfedgrassfinished #grassfedbeef #grassfedpork #grassfedlamb #meatdelivery #familyfarm #willamettevalley #farmtotable #farmtofork #eatlocal #oregonwildfires #mtangel #beachiecreekfire

Good morning from the Beaverton Farmers Market! He

Good morning from the Beaverton Farmers Market! Here are a few photos of some of the many vendors here this morning. Less than usual, but still plenty to choose from, and customers are out as well. We just met the mom of a customer who is up here after evacuating from Molalla. Glad she is safe and that the weather is looking promising to protect our small towns today. We were also excited to see so many vegetable vendors here at the market today. Fruits and veggie vendors have been hit especially hard this week. The smoke and air up here is significantly better than Mt. Angel, so that’s a bright spot for us (and also 😳😳). This has been A YEAR. Looking forward to chatting with you if you come out. It looks like we’ll be here past 11. See you soon.

No-filter photos of the farm from yesterday and th

No-filter photos of the farm from yesterday and this morning. Visibility is back down to 1/4 mile, but air quality is slightly better. Humidity is 83%, which is good. If the weather holds the fire should stay away, but we are not weather or fire experts, so it’s all hard to predict. Thinking of the folks who have had to evacuate or have lost people and things to the Santiam (Beachie Creek) Fire. We will be at the Beaverton Farmers Market Saturday, and are looking forward to slightly better air quality up there. #oregonwildfires #willamettevalley #wildfire #familyfarm

No-filter photos of the farm. We are currently 10

No-filter photos of the farm. We are currently 10 miles away from the Santiam Fire (formerly the Beachie Creek Fire). This is the worst smoke and fire season Mike or his dad Joe can remember in Mt. Angel. There’s much less wind currently, which is good. That means we’re more likely to still have electricity, which means we can run our irrigation well, and we have tripod sprinklers set up around the perimeter of the farm buildings. We also have our farm truck tanks loaded with water.

The smoke keeps coming in waves and you can see just about a quarter mile (if that).

We’ve moved a bunch of farm equipment out to one of our really green alfalfa fields and spaced all of it apart. There’s not much fuel around because we keep the farm cleaned up. Our buildings all have metal roofs and mostly metal siding, as well, so that’s good. The main areas we are concerned about here are the wooded areas we have on farm that have more fire fuel.

The animals are doing okay so far, no big declines, which is what we are watching out for. For us to go outside right now to check and keep prepping the farm, we have to be in full ventilator masks.

Right now the packing plant is still operating (it’s got filtered air), and deliveries are going out. We will be at the Beaverton Farmers Market as-of-now as long as air quality in Beaverton permits.

We are not on evacuation go-now orders. But we are ready and have bags packed and friends ready to take us in. Information here current as of 9/9 at 3:30pm.

Photos show: farm in read, smoky haze, goats grazing in haze, ash on a farm truck, Mike in a ventilator out on the farm

#oregonwildfires #santiamfire #mtangel #familyfarm #willamettevalley

We wanted to give you all an update on how John is

We wanted to give you all an update on how John is doing: John’s kidney function seems to be stable. He continues to diligently take his medications to keeps his kidneys working (so many pills—and he has to swallow them, not chew!). Mike and I are both compatible to donate a kidney to John. (Our kidneys are healthy too!). This was great news. Mike will continue on to more tests to screen for kidney donation. Stay tuned for a future post with details on John’s new health-focused website that will have a donation link, and lots more information about our journey. It’s hosted by a wonderful organization called COTA that focuses just on kids who need organ transplants. Transplant kids have a unique set of needs, as we are learning, and we are so grateful to have an organization like this to work with. 💕🥰 Photo shows: John and Patty posing together on the combine at the farm in August.

Mike is stacking hay bales tonight that our friend

Mike is stacking hay bales tonight that our friends are sending up the hay elevator. Mike says, “We are putting up what I like to call ‘cow sheets.’ All of this straw will be used all winter long to keep the buildings [for livestock] clean and dry. That way when it’s wet outside, the cows have some place nice and dry to be when it’s wet in the winter.” Keeping livestock dry and comfy in the winter in the Willamette Valley is an important part of raising cattle. They always have full access to open pasture, in addition to our clean and dry (and not muddy!) loafing shed. #willamettevalley #familyfarm

It’s alfalfa time! This is Mike’s uncle out on

It’s alfalfa time! This is Mike’s uncle out on the tractor. #familyfarm #willamettevalley

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