Draper Valley Farms & PCC Natural Markets Draper Valley Farms, the Pacific North West’s leading sustainably farmed all-natural chicken company and PCC Natural Markets, the Seattle-based certified organic retailer, today eliminate the use of cardboard in shipping fresh poultry to PCC’s nine locations. Instead of using cardboard boxes which are discarded after each shipment, Draper Valley Farms now uses rigid plastic “nesters” – stackable trays that are not just recyclable, they are reused, eliminating the need for cardboard shipping materials entirely and removing the need for labor to break down boxes.
Draper Valley Farms is the first all-natural poultry company to adopt a no cardboard supply chain by using reusable shipping trays. PCC Natural Markets is the first retailer to work with Draper Valley Farms on this cardboard-free, environmentally-friendly shipping initiative, which is planned to roll out to additional customers going forward.
For more info, please visit www.drapervalleyfarms.com and www.pccnaturalmarkets.com.
After seeing the movie Food Inc. I have changed the way I eat, & will only eat ORGANIC FOOD, INCLUDING CHICKEN & none farmed fish.
What a disgusting way of farming the food industry is doing. I for one will tell everyone I know about the dangers of eating these kinds of food, & will support all growers markets & buy organic only.
I heard something about your draper chickens & it wasn’t good. It was about these chickens that are treated just like they did in this movie & I for one will not eat chicken if this is the case.
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I have the same concerns and questions that Karen Hyland posted. Would you please address the conditions under which your chickens are being raised?
When I saw the above two questions, I wondered as well about the conditions the chickens are raised in. I went to the website at
http://drapervalleyfarms.com/did_you_know.htm . An excerpt from that page reads “The chickens at Draper Valley Farms are raised without the use of antibiotics and raised with excellent poultry husbandry practices. Chickens are grown in spacious housing with plenty of natural sunlight and fresh air and have sufficient room to move about the entire house. They are Free-Range, given outdoor access which helps contribute to a stress-free living environment.”
Just like anything that expands beyond the immediate control of those setting the standards, it is possible that some places may not be operated under the same standards as they have been given. The site provides both an address and a phone number for anyone who wants to do further research. I may call as well, but just haven’t been moved to do so at this time. Hope this helps.
Dear Draper,
Let’s face it, you have been located here in the N.W. for many years, and those of us who are watching carefully what foods we eat, have chosen NOT to eat your chicken due to the way your chickens have been treated and fed.
In what way (s) are these organic birds of yours being treated differently? Specifically what are they fed exactly?
Draper Valley chickens are only ‘organic’ if they are feed non-gmo corn and soy flakes. Nowhere on the website does it say they are not fed gmo grains. If they are fed genetically modified (Monsanto, Dow, etc) grain, it won’t be on my table.
I am encouraged that Draper Valley has made changes to their chicken operation, and hope that they continue to work at bringing healthy chicken to the market place. Draper may not be fully organic, but I will buy their product over alot of the other junk chicken that is out in our market places.
I purchase your poultry every time I shop at Cost-Cutters in Lynden, but I have noticed recently that, there appears a lot of blood in the joints, Do you bleed you chickens?. I just roasted a whol;e chicken this week, and the joints all were black. I dont like the looks of this, and its such a waste to keep throwing this meat in the garbage. Any help you could forward, would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.