Third-generation farmers Mike and Patty Kloft run the 465-acre farm in Oregon’s beautiful Willamette Valley. Lonely Lane was started in 1939 by Mike's grandfather, John Kloft, and his grandmother, Hattie Kloft. The farm still have some of the original buildings. John and Hattie started off with cereal grains (wheat, oats, barley) and were raising some livestock for themselves as every farmer did b
ack then. They did their own processing on the farm, so it’s full-circle for us with our own on-farm USDA-inspected processing facility today. Our main motto on the farm is to make it sustainable, keep it local, and keep it fresh and safe. Our animals have an open environment with plenty of space to graze. We mimic the conditions they would have if they were naturally grazing, except that there’s a big loafing shed where our cows can get some protection from the weather. Our cows are spoiled, and we want them to be able to be dry. If it’s rainy or windy sometimes a cow will get a hair-brained idea, and then they all take off into the weather. The calves are funny: They especially like to go out even when it’s rainy or cold. Our pork comes mostly from Patty’s family’s farm. Joseph and Maria Bochsler, Patty’s great-great grandparents, started raising pigs in the 1890s. A small part of our pork comes from a family farm on the other side of Dayton, Oregon, from a couple who retired and got back into farming, and they sell pretty much exclusively to us. They enjoy farming, why they’re doing it, and how they’re doing it. The lamb comes from down in Dallas, Oregon, from Atherton Farms. They are a grass-fed, grass-finished farm. They don’t do direct sales, which is why they work with us. It’s important to them that their lamb be sold locally.
100% of our meat comes from local, family farms in the Willamette River Valley.
