Know Your Farmer: James Mock - Poultry Feed Leader

“I come to work every day and have a good attitude. I’m glad to be a part of this team”, says James Mock, our Poultry Feed Distribution Officer.

Spotlight On Our Poultry Crew

Employee Spotlight: Jeff Lackey- Poultry Production Manager

Meet Brian Sapp, Director of Operations at White Oak Pastures

“Damn, that's a nice bumper”. It was a rainy, muddy, cold weekend in December 2007. Will Harris had just finished showing Brian Sapp around the farm, which, at that point, Brian describes as “just feeding cattle and the plant was a concrete floor”. Brian’s lifelong passion for fabrication led him...

Meet Our Leather Crafter Alena Ivakhnenko

If you visit our General Store in Bluffton you’ll notice our leather workshop tucked in the back corner. Our leather crafter Alena works here daily and has hand-made almost every leather product on our shelves. Alena grew up in the Ukraine and spent most of her childhood in her grandmother’s...

Employee Spotlight: Small Ruminant Manager Matthew Cantrell

What’s in your Jeep, Will Harris?

Meet Mary, Queen of Brussels (Sprouts)

As we kick off the Fall season of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, we are excited to introduce you to one of our organic garden managers, Mary Bruce! We love the way Mary involves herself in so many different functions at White Oak Pastures: she’s also a leather craftswoman, a...

White Oak Pastures: Nose-to-tail, farm-to-door

We believe our farm is one-of-a-kind. We’re fiercely proud of our vertically integrated system, which allows us to raise animals on pasture, slaughter and butcher them in our USDA-inspected on-farm abattoir, and ship them directly to the well-informed consumers who want to support this type of...

Day in the Life of John Pedersen, Hog Manager, Midwife to Sows

Photo by Laura Mortelliti

Q&A with Lisa Brown, White Oak Pastures’ Poultry Plant Manager

We are excited to introduce you to a special member of the White Oak Pastures family, Lisa Brown. Lisa started working with us in 2012, when we were still beginning to learn the poultry business. She started out in the processing side of our on-farm poultry abattoir as a feather plucker, and then...

Dan Coady, nanomedical researcher to pastured poultry farmer

For six years, Dan Coady conducted research for a multinational technology corporation in California, until one day he decided to move to rural southwest Georgia to become a farmer. Today he leads the country’s largest pastured poultry operation, and we are lucky to have him.

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