Joe's Farm

04/06/2026

‼️REAL PASTURE RAISED‼️

04/01/2026

Our hens have great access to a window that shows them really lush green pastures! 🐔🪟🌱

These hens couldn't have a better life (except for maybe being raised in mobile chicken coops…)!

04/01/2026

‼️WE FINALLY DID IT‼️

Against all odds and biology, we now offer 100% grass fed chicken!

They may have been designed to be Monogastricbut we have successfully turned them into Ruminant!

04/01/2026

Texas heat is just too hot for us! We decided to do a 180 and are now rotating penguins to fresh ice every day in Antarctica!

Keep an eye out in your local grocery store for our penguin eggs and meat!

03/10/2026

5 LIES most people believe about Pasture Poultry:

1. Pasture-raised means birds are actually on pasture.
While I wish this were true, it often isn’t. The vast majority of chicken meat and eggs sold in the U.S. with a “pasture-raised” label only require limited access to the outdoors. There’s no requirement that birds actually go outside, or that what they go out to is grass rather than a moonscape dirt lot.

2. An orange yolk means a healthier egg.
Once upon a time, this had some truth to it. Darker yolks usually meant hens were outside foraging on grass, seeds, and bugs. Today, many commercial operations add marigold extract to the feed to darken yolks. In some cases, the yolks end up far darker than what you would naturally get from hens on pasture.

3. Third-party certifications always mean something.
Don’t get me wrong, some certifications have ok standards and some oversight. But the truth is, the majority don’t mean much. More often than not, certifications can act as a marketing layer over poor growing practices.

4. “Fresh” meat is actually fresh.
I remember when I first learned that “fresh” meat could be frozen, then “slacked” (industry term for thawed) and sold as fresh chicken, beef, or pork. The truth is, the “fresh” chicken you’re eating could be months old, thawed, and then sold as fresh. I don’t necessarily have a problem with the practice, but most consumers don’t realize it happens.

5. Pasture-raised chicken can’t feed the world.
I disagree with that statement from a factual standpoint. There is plenty of land in the U.S. to raise chickens on pasture and move them daily. In fact, integrating poultry with crop farms can improve soil health and crop yields, not to mention all the wasted yards and desertified land that could benefit from a little chicken and cattle impact.

That said, I also like what my friend Will Harris says:
“I’m not trying to save the world, I’m trying to save White Oak Pastures.”
(I hope I got that close to right, Will!)

And there’s truth in that, too. As farmers, we don’t necessarily need to change the whole world, we need to improve our farms and the communities we have influence in.

03/09/2026

When you come to our farm, you may think we are raising chickens out on pasture (you would be right, lol), but we are raising something even more important: the next generation!

I have no intentions of pressuring any of our kids to take over the farm one day, but rather to make the farm an option for them. This means the farm has to have a purpose, be financially stable, and have a place where they can use their God-given skills!

Chicken is awesome and important, but people, and children in particular, are immensely more important!

When you support our farm, you are also supporting the future of food for your kids!

03/07/2026

Moving chickens to fresh pasture is so beneficial to the health of the chicken, the environment, and the people who eat the chicken!

Do you think pasture raised chicken should be moved to fresh pasture regularly or can it come from a stationary barn?

02/10/2026

‼️WE NEED YOUR HELP‼️

These two drastically different growing practices are both legally sold as “Pasture Raised” currently in the US!

APPPA (American Pastured Poultry Producers Association) has submitted a petition to the DFA and the USDA that would define “Pasture Raised” as 50%+ of the egg laying life of the hen on pasture and define “Pasture” as 50%+ rooted vegetation!

99% of “pasture raised” eggs in the store come from CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) commercial barns with holes cut in the sides of them! Research shows that a large portion of those birds never go outside! In fact, large brands that sell “pasture raised” eggs have self-admittedly locked their hens in the barns in the name of “safety” but never changed their label and continued to sell them eggs from those hens as “pasture raised”!

If you believe eggs sold as “pasture raised” should actually come from hens who spend their lives on pasture, PLEASE leave a comment at both the FDA and the USDA in support of this petition!

How to:

For the FDA, go to Regulations.gov and search for FDA-2026-P-1156-0001 then leave a comment or click this link: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2026-P-1156-0001

For the USDA, email your comments to [email protected] and use the subject line RE: Docket No: 26-01

You can use the same comments for both the FDA and USDA if you want.

Hard-working families have been spending their money on “pasture raised” eggs and have been receiving nothing but a commercial egg in a fancy carton! It's time to make “Pasture Raised” mean something again!

If you have any questions or need any help, feel free to leave a comment, and we will help you through it or send us a DM!

Thank you all for your help and support!

02/08/2026

‼️WE NEED YOUR HELP‼️

If you feel there should be more consistency in food labeling and help make it more likely that consumers actually get what they pay extra for, please leave a comment to both the FDA and the USDA in support of this petition!

We helped get this petition submitted so if you have any questions drop them in the comments below comments!

Why Consistent “Pasture Raised” Standards Matter for Eggs

The American Pastured Poultry Producers Association has submitted a joint petition to the FDA and the USDA FSISurging alignment of egg labeling requirements for the “pasture raised” claim with the definition already used for meat and poultry.

USDA FSIS maintains a clear, enforceable standard for “pasture raised.” Because shell eggs fall under FDA jurisdiction, that same definition does not currently apply to eggs allowing identical claims to be used for very different production systems.

This effort is NOT about creating new regulations. It’s about applying an existing, well-understood standard consistently, so that labeling means the same thing across product categories.

Clear standards support transparency, fair markets, and long-term confidence in pasture-based production. APPPA will continue to engage regulators and stakeholders to protect the integrity of pasture-raised claims.

Help Protect the Integrity of “Pasture Raised”

To be successful, APPPA needs your help!

The APPPA Board is asking members to:
-Share these petitions on your farm’s social media or e-newsletters
-Submit public comments on both petitions
-Encourage customers to submit brief comments describing what they expect when purchasing pasture-raised eggs

Public comments matter! 
📌 USDA FSIS
Email: [email protected]
Subject line: RE: Docket No. 26-01

📌 FDA
Submit comments via the comment box on the petition page at: regulations.gov
FDA Docket No. FDA-2026-P-1156-0001

APPPA will share sample letters and talking points with members via the APPPA ListServe on Groups.io. Non-members may request materials by emailing [email protected]

01/12/2026

HUGE thank you to everyone who came out this past weekend. We appreciate your support so much! Not only did we appreciate your help in clearing out our freezers, but we loved getting to see all of you! It was great to chat and say thank you for all the support you have shown our family farm over the past almost 15 years we have been here in SW MI! Thank you for your kind words of encouragement! While we planned to close the doors Sat, we do still have some products left. We will be operating the farm store as our normal self serve option until this Wednesday. There are price sheets and instructions on how to calculate the discounts. Beef, chicken, duck and lamb are all still available!! Thank you all again for your incredible support! And stay tuned for all the details on how you can still order our meat from our new TX farm!

Here are a few price examples with the discount:

Whole chicken comes to $3.85/lb
Wings are $5.25/pack
Chicken brats/patties are $10.15/package
Beef roasts are $7/lb
Stew meat is $7/lb
Soup bones are $3.50/package

01/08/2026

🎉🎉🎉 Big News For Joe’s Farm 🎉🎉🎉

As some of you already know, we have relocated to Texas. This has been a huge change for our family as well as our business. We are still raising chicken the way we always have, just with the ability to do it year round. Unfortunately, it does mean that we have to close our Michigan operations. This decision was not easy. Because of this, we are also shutting down our on-site Farm Store. We want to thank you all for the amazing support you have shown us through our on-site store, our bulk beef program and our online sales. We can't express enough our gratitude for your support. You are the reason we are able to raise meat the way we do.

As a thank you, we are offering a 30% sale this Friday and Sat (January 9th and 10th) This is the LARGEST sale we have ever offered. We want to fill your freezers and thank you for your continued support. Everything will be 30% off (the only exclusion is our ground beef. Due to the low margins on that product we are able to offer it at a 10% discount). This sale includes non-GMO and corn-free, soy-free chicken, grass fed grass finished beef, pasture raised duck and lamb as well as some turkey and rabbit.

We are located at 53323 Pulver Road, Three Rivers, MI 49093. The sale will start Friday at 8am -5pm and again Sat 8 to 5 (or as supplies last). Please bring cash!

Thank you again for being a Joe's Farm customer!
Be sure to continue to follow us because we will have a lot of exciting things coming out of our Texas farm and may even have meat and eggs available to order and shipped! 🙌

We are also having a farm equipment sale at the same time as our farm store sale!

Your farmer Joe Koopsen and the Joe's Farm Team

11/27/2025

We hope you all have a fabulous Thanksgiving from the Koopsen family, .us, and ! 🦃

Thank you to everyone who chose to purchase a truly pasture raised turkey 🦃 from one of our amazing partner farms!





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